Ooh...it's gorgeous! I really like the pebbled look with the honey. Thanks for posting pics!

For the moment, I think I'm going to stick with the B17, at least until my initial sitbone soreness goes away. I think a part of the whole Terry saga was just grass-is-greener syndrome.

Heh...I went back to the LBS tonight to return it and talked saddles for awhile with the guy working the counter. After hearing my laundry list of wants (and complaints about the Terry) - not smooth / slick enough, too smooshy, too wide in the nose, etc. - he pulled out a few saddles, one of which was the B17! Made me laugh. I admit, I didn't 'fess up to owning one already. I still feel...unworthy of having such a classic, somehow. Pretentious upstart. So I just thanked him and went on my way, though a part of me actually wanted to buy another for my mountain bike, just to spite the Terry sitting on the counter. It didn't like me, it didn't, it didn't.

I went on a good fifteen mile ride tonight, and I really think my Brooks is starting to feel like home. It's smooth (but no longer slippery), nice and cool, it moves with me without smushing anything, it's springy when the road is bumpy, and after just shy of a hundred and seventy five miles, I think it's finally *starting* to get sitbone dents. Most importantly, no girly bits were harmed in the making of that trip... My sitbones are still a tad bruised feeling, but I know a part of that is just that I've only had the bike for three weeks and I did my first thirty mile ride on Saturday!

Bottom line, I think, is that I'm pretty well sold on the whole leather saddle thing. I *think* the regular ol' B17 is wide enough for me, and it sure looks classy on Edwina. If it doesn't work, I now know my LBS can get Brooks saddles...and their prices were right in line with Wallingford. So I can always order a B68 down the line if I decide I need one.

As for the topic of the thread...I did another scoping out session this evening after my ride, and I think Saturday I'm going to make my first go of riding to work. After last weekend, I know I can go thirty miles at a go, so fifteen twice a day should be doable - and that's at the outside of what this trip will likely be.