Brooks Imperial

[uforgot]

Looks like they are finally here. Harris Cyclery has them.

[Zen]

Looks like they're black only.
Good. Now I don't have a dilemma

[emily_in_nc]

Sorry, but that cutout looks very "pinchy" to me! I love cutouts, but not narrow pinchy ones (a Terry Damselfly just about killed me...). Pretty saddles, but I'd be very interested to know if anyone tries these and actually likes 'em!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

The Imperial is based on the B17, which is 170mm wide at the sitbones- too narrow for me- my sitbones ride partially on the frame edges.
I am super comfy on the men's B68 only- which is 210mm wide.

But if the Imperial were wide enough for me, I'd get the men's version, not the "woman's version" S model.

[Biciclista]

The Imperial is based on the B17, which is 170mm wide at the sitbones- too narrow for me- my sitbones ride partially on the frame edges.
I am super comfy on the men's B68 only- which is 210mm wide.

But if the Imperial were wide enough for me, I'd get the men's version, not the "woman's version" S model.

"FIGURE 2" looks pretty wide! but the cutout, like someone else said; looks pinchy. The fact is, the only time I get front crunch is when I slip or something and that cut out is in the WRONG place to do any good when that happens.

[Blueberry]

Looks like Wallingford has them too - 6 month return policy....hmmm....

Good think there's not a honey one

CA

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

"FIGURE 2" looks pretty wide! but the cutout, like someone else said; looks pinchy. The fact is, the only time I get front crunch is when I slip or something and that cut out is in the WRONG place to do any good when that happens.

Yes, the one on the right 'looks' really wide partly because it is so short, the B17 "S" model.
It's actually 177mm wide, - too narrow for my sit bones. And the non-S model is 170mm.

The B68 as I said is 210mm wide and is the only saddle that actually fits my sit bones width-wise so I'm not riding literally on the saddle edges with my bones.

[uforgot]

Sorry, but that cutout looks very "pinchy" to me! I love cutouts, but not narrow pinchy ones (a Terry Damselfly just about killed me...). Pretty saddles, but I'd be very interested to know if anyone tries these and actually likes 'em!

Brooks actually distributed about a hundred of them to bikeforum members and there was a thread about them. I saw that they were accepting applications a little too late or I definitely would have donated my rear end to science! They seemed to be well liked. I'm like Zen, though, only black makes the decision easy. Now if they had them in honey, well then that 17s would be coming my way and I'd be eating ramen noodles.