Unintended consequences

On 1/6/21 4:06 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/5/2021 5:58 PM, wrote:
On Monday, January 4, 2021 at 4:53:19 PM UTC-6, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 06:33:21 -0800 (PST), Mark Cleary
wrote:

On Monday, January 4, 2021 at 8:00:19 AM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlton...de-in-england/

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Andrew Muzi
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Never road a Brooks and hate the look but are they really better?
Deacon Mark
Well, they are relatively expensive for a bicycle saddle, they require
"breaking in" and are extremely uncomfortable for the first, perhaps,
1,000 miles, they have to be protected from getting wet else they
stretch and being leather need frequent applications of leather
dressing which Brooks will sell you for only 17 dollars for 30 ml.


Relatively expensive?Â* Well, a Google search says the Brooks Team Pro
is $144 at Modern Bike.Â* A Brooks B17 is $74.99 at xxcycle.Â* Two very
common Brooks saddles.Â* A look at Nashbar website under the saddle
section shows a total of 300 road saddles.Â* If you organize them by
price, the first 147 saddles out of 300 are between $529.99 and
$144.95.Â* At $144 you get to the first Brooks Swift saddles.Â* Swift
has titanium rails.Â* So almost half the road saddles at Nashbar are
more expensive than very popular Brooks saddles.Â* And Nashbar only has
33 saddles priced $74.99 or under.Â* $74.99 was the B17 price.Â* So 267
of 300 road saddles at Nashbar are above or maybe equal to the price
of a Brooks B17.

I suspect you think Brooks are expensive simply because they do not
make any cheap crap.Â* All of their saddles are medium priced or
slightly above.Â* No cheap junk crap Brooks saddles.Â* Whereas with all
other saddles, you have an extremely wide range of pricing.Â* If you
want to focus exclusively on the cheap crap junk saddles, then it is
easy to find cheap cheap cheap.Â* Or if you look around a bit more you
find an overwhelming number of saddles that are far more expensive
than Brooks.

Although Brooks don't work for me (and I've tried!), I do like the fact
that the designs are stable so you know what you'll get.

I've gone through various saddles on my other bikes, for example some
sort of men's Terry saddle on my touring bike, a Vetta SL saddle a
friend gave me on another bike, and saddles of forgotten origin on a
couple more bikes. I like the Terry best, but it could use replacement -
its leather cover has worn out and cracked - but I don't see a duplicate
in their catalog. I suspect they don't make this one any more, so buying
another would be a pig in a poke.

Salesman: "Ah yes, they don't make those any more. Don't know why,
they were very popular and well respected..."

Cutomer: *******S!