I have done that to an older Brooks Pro that is well worn. The Wallingford Bicycles website has a link to doing that. It really stiffened up my saddle and made it ridable again.
Tom Forbes
Houston, Texas.
From: "Ted E. Baer" <wickedsky@sbcglobal.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Ideale 88 saddle
Date:
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:28:06 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Did anyone happen to see this auction for the Ideale
>88 saddle on the one and only eBay?
>
>Check it out: 280138017648
>
>Please see this photo in particular:
>
><http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x200/MasterWar12/?action=view¤t=DSC03640.jpg>
>
>It looks like someone wove a shoe string through the
>perforated holes on the underside of the saddle to
>give it the Brooks Swallow look.
>
>Were the perforated holes in the leather designed for
>pulling the leather together to give the saddle a more
>robust look? I
do notice that I tend to get rashes on
>the insides of my thighs after riding old flattened
>leather saddles.....
>
>Ted E. Baer
>Palo Alto, CA
>
>
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