Brooks Saddles

[g19]

I'm in the market for a new saddle.

I have a SA saddle and it's now stretched out a lot and a new longer bolt was used in order to keep using the saddle.

I could go on and keep stretching the saddle until ....

A new top incl. shipping would be as much as buying a new one or trying a brooks swallow wich is much less due to having a sales distributor here for brooks and not for SA.

No i can't figure out wich is best as when i ride i never ride shorter than 50 miles and my regular rides are 70 to 80 miles.

I need a saddle that can deliver 'relative' comfort for these rides.

Can anybody confirm that a swallow can deliver that or is the SA saddle the way to go (again).

My problem (a bit) with the SA is that when it started to stretch out more and more that the comfort started to disappear instantly and the rides are not so comfortable anymore.

That's why i now look a bit sideway's to a brooks swallow.

Can anybody throw i some light please regarding this.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

A swallow is one of the narrower Brooks saddles. We don't know what kind of width your sit bones are.
Every one is different, so no one would be able to 'confirm' whether a Brooks Swallow would be comfortable for you or not.
SA's do sometimes seems to have that stretching problem. Brooks don't have that as far as I know...the leather is much thicker for one thing.

If you buy from Wallingford, you can return the Brooks after a couple months test, -as long as you don't apply anything to it but Brooks' HydePruf.
If your average ride is over 50 miles (!) then it sholdn't take you long to figure out if the Brooks will work for you.
Because the Brooks is thicker and stiffer than SA, expect a longer break-in period though, and you might feel sore sit bones for the first few rides.

If your sitbones are not all that narrow, then you might want to consider a Brooks B17 instead of the Swallow. I usually see thin guys with skinny-teeny butts on Swallows.

[g19]

A swallow is one of the narrower Brooks saddles. We don't know what kind of width your sit bones are.

Ouch, they are 4 to 4,5" (10 to 11.5 cm)

If you buy from Wallingford,

I can't as i'm from the EU that's the problem.

If your sitbones are not all that narrow, then you might want to consider a Brooks B17 instead of the Swallow.

Well i am constantly reading posts by others trying to figure out what could be the best choice and the B17 N was recently 'added' to my possibilities of the right one.

Thanks for the reply i appreciate it a lot.

[KnottedYet]

There is a TE'er selling a B17 Narrow right now.
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=36709

And here I was thinking she needed to list it where men might see it, as I know so few women who could ride a narrow... Cosmic synchronicity!