First ride on my Brooks B17, ouch.

[stella]

I know Mimi, I almolst cried today on a ride, of course they would be tears of joy, two years of constant saddle sagga will get you crying Thanks for helping me with Brooks , if it weren't for you, Stella and Lisa I would go back to gel saddle with cut out. Hopefully my Team Pro will get more comfortable with every ride.

FN: I am so glad it worked out for you!

If your experience mirrors mine...the saddle WILL get more comfortable over time.

stella

[FreshNewbie]

Thank you Lisa and Stella
Suzie, today I went for that ride which was supposed to be 40 flat miles with B+, but my BF was with me and he convinced me that I can easily do A-. So that A- minus turned out to be 48 miles, hilly and very challenging ( too early in the season for me). Anyway, I made a huge mistake today. I wore different shorts than yesterday, today I wore my Sugoi Lucky shorts with regular tights on top (it was in 50's in the morning). Yesterday I had my SSS Sheebeest shorts on. Anyway, I was sliding today pretty bad in these tights, so I took them off later but that's already after the damage was done. I think for me it was a pattern, when I had my B17 for my two rides I was also wearing sugoi shorts with Tights and that made me constantly slide and chaffe. So maybe that was the reason that saddle went back to wall bike . However, by the end of the ride I was not sliding as much and was able to stay in the back. Overall, I am pretty positive if I wear right shorts with this saddle it will be good to me. I know your problem is more of a pressure problem but I wonder if you are also not able to stay in one place due to sliding around. Try to experiment with shorts if you have different brands that have different short material maybe. SSS shorts have more of a thicker material which makes them not as slippery with Brooks. Anyway, hope this helps or at least gives you some ideas.
Please let me know how your ride went, I want to hear. Good luck,
Marina

[mimitabby]

years ago I used to fantasize about velcro on my pants to keep me from sliding!
now that i am in the right place, i don't slip and slide at all... at least i don't notice it.

[CyclaSutra]

OK, but does this sound like the eighth circle of hell to anybody else? I am so sorry that your bits are so bothersome with the Brookses... it makes me never want to try one, even though they look so cool.

On my road bike, I've had a Terry Butterfly saddle for the past 2 years, and except for 80+ mile rides, it's great! At more than 80, the foam seems to squish down and be really uncomfortable on the sit bones, but I only do a half-dozen or so centuries a year, so I've dealt with "almost there!" standing up on the pedals, etc.

I had a WSD gelly cutout thing on my old mountain bike, and at six years old, it's getting really mushy but is still comfy.

In the interest of trying to get "the perfect" saddle, I did try a couple of Koobis that I couldn't figure out how to make comfortable at all.

It seems like you've just had really bad luck thus far! I hope your bits get better soon, and try some chamois cream and just ONE pair of shorts, maybe.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Sutra,
You should keep in mind that this thread is addressing a couple of women who are having trouble getting their Brooks saddles to be comfy for them. It's not a thread about how great Brooks saddles feel. If you started a thread on "How do you like your Brooks saddle?" you'd likely get a lot of happy campers replying. There are quite a few Brooks saddle fans on TE.

[CyclaSutra]

Lisa, I get it.

It just seems sort of like the all-leather pair of hiking boots I got when I first moved out West. Cool, retro, slick, authentic-looking. Awesome, right? But they never fit right and I was always sitting down to bandage my blisters after the first mile or two of a hike. Three years later, I got some synthetic fabric boots that fit, and rarely a blister since.

Everybody's feet are different, just as everybody's body is different. I was just trying to make the point that maybe if a saddle's not working after weeks of fiddling, it's time to try a totally different approach.

Like I said, they look really cool and I wouldn't totally discount them. I'd love to try a Brooks, but probably only if I found one on super-sale!

Good luck, girls!

[jobob]

I'd love to try a Brooks, but probably only if I found one on super-sale!

Except if you bought one full-price at Wallingford, you would have 6 months to try it out, and if you didn't like it, you could return it.

Where on earth can you find a more lenient, more risk-free return policy than that?

It never ceases to amaze me how more people don't take advantage of that.