I've found that different Brooks saddles require different treatment to break in.
My first Brooks was a B-17 flyer. This was basically comfortable right out of the box. I initially and occasionally applied proofide and it was very comfortable by ~200 miles. My second Brooks is a B17 select that I got from fellow lister Will Ashe. You can check his previous posts about not being able to break it in despite a year of riding and 1000 or more miles. I can say that Will was not exaggerating. This thing felt (and sounded) like a hard piece of wood. I tried proofide plus 100 miles and found no improvement. I decided to go nuclear and used the Sheldon Brown neatsfoot oil method. The saddle was immediately more comfortable, but not saggy. With 50 miles it was close to perfection. I've got maybe 700 miles on it since with no sagging. The color was completely changed, but this was definitely worth it. Nate -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
