New brooks Vs old brooks

[mimitabby]

Here is a photo of my30 year old brooks saddle (B66). It is perfectlly broke in


Here is a photo of my new one(b67), with 125 miles on it. notice the top is still flat, with just a tiny bit of curving going on where the sit bones are.

[Bikingmomof3]

Thanks for sharing the photos. I am loving my Brooks B17S.

[KnottedYet]

Mimi- neither of your B67's ever made horrible creaking and cracking and snapping and popping and twanging noises? Noises so loud you could FEEL them? And were embarrassed by them?

Diane at wallbike said 95% of the noisy spring-frame saddles are just tension issues, but I'm starting to think my beloved B67 is one of the 5% that has a real structural problem. She said if it didn't clear up they could send me a new B67, but I'm wondering if I'm better off with a B72 and the harder springs.

I've tensioned my B67 5 or 6 times, which is equivalent to 1 1/2 turns of the adjustment. That darn saddle is so comfortable that I'd hate to trade it out.

[WrensMom]

So how did you end up with a 30 year old Brooks? Surely you have not had it the whole time

[xeney]

My B67 has never made any noise at all. I have also never tensioned it; I was told they should pretty much never be tensioned, certainly not in the first couple of years. I think you got a bad one.