Re: [CR]Lopsided Brooks Saddle--Bicycle Quarterly

(Example: Bike Shops:R.E.W. Reynolds)

Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:34:50 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Lopsided Brooks Saddle--Bicycle Quarterly
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At 10:10 PM 12/8/06 +0000, joebz@optonline.net wrote:
>Lopsidedness is very common in Brooks saddles. I would guess at least one out of ten. The butt leather can usually be seen to be thicker on one side than the other although some times it just seems to be stretchier (probably less dense). In use the thinner or stretchier side sags more.

Could it be that today's more efficient manufacturing methods get the maximum number of saddles out of each hide, thus ending up with these inconsistencies? Also, no human body is perfectly symetrical, so the lopsidedness can come from the rider.

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada