Quote Originally Posted by DebW
I'm not joining the cult, but here are some pics of an old Brooks from a 1954 Raleigh three-speed that's sitting in my basement to be refurbished someday. ....Any thought on whether I should keep this with the refurbished bike or send it to the Brooks home in the sky?
The leather is shot. It's cracked all over the place, it's 52 years old, and besides- you can see the sitbone dents, meaning it formed decades ago to somebody ELSE'S butt shape! That would be like trying to wear someone else's decades-old dried up cracked leather shoes. I would keep it for "posteriority", and selling the old bike with its old saddle would be good to do, but if you plan on actually riding the bike after refurbishing it, I wouldn't want to ride on THAT saddle.