I use that very technique if they get wet, a folded in half and rolled up duster makes a good size pad.A toe strap round it over some padding should slowly pull the sides in. Old timers used to do this from new to get that coveted inward curve. Take it off when riding.
I have a B17 narrow and Swift and they are equally very comfy.
Which are the most comfortable Brooks?
I'd bought my B.5N in 1966 and I understood from Brooks when I enquired a few years back that it had been a budget model, long discontinued. A pal of mine at the same time had a Sun Snipe Plus which came fitted with a B.15 as standard.i was given a B5n a few years ago but the modern version is the B17n
Saddle porn at its best
A smart arse is exactly what's needed on a Saddle threadAt the risk of sounding like a smart-arse the most comfortable is the one that suits your own arse.
I'd hazard a guess that that really is a thing. I ain't googling to check though
Yep the B5n was a budget model, I think it was the saddle fitted as standard to my 67 Carlton Clubman, it definitely had a leather saddle with lace holes when I got it off my Cousin in 76, that got broken in an accident in 85 when I cartwheeled the bike and the nose snapped off as it hit the ground. I rode it like that with lacing to keep the shape for a few years until my encounter with a lorry that nearly wrote the bike off and when I rebuilt the bike I couldn't afford a Brooks. The next time I rode one was in about 97 when I built up my Ridgeback from the frame I was given (Tange CrMo tubing) and John* at Bob Warner Cycles had a black B17n for £50. That was the start of me being a 'cyclist' as opposed to a bloke who just rode a bike everywhere and then I started building up a fleet of bikes for different purposes.I'd bought my B.5N in 1966 and I understood from Brooks when I enquired a few years back that it had been a budget model, long discontinued. A pal of mine at the same time had a Sun Snipe Plus which came fitted with a B.15 as standard.
I seem to remember someone being prosecuted for it, at a station in London. Also not googling.I'd hazard a guess that that really is a thing. I ain't googling to check though
Here is the full write up, very funny.
CYCLISTS have been warned to be on their guard – after Britain’s most notorious BIKE-SEAT SNIFFER walked free from a court. Legal commentators had expected Clinton Dennison to be jailed after he was caught snurging seats at a municipal bike shed in Balham, south London – for the 57th time! But not only was he found not guilty, his lawyer successfully argued that sniffing bike seats is NOT an offence if the bike’s owner does not witness the act.
In a landmark ruling, city magistrates agreed with Dennison’s solicitor Armitage Phelps that a sexual motive had not been proved – and if the cycle’s owner was not present to see the sniffing, a public order offence could not be proved. As Dennison’s snurging had only been seen by a CCTV operative, magistrates ruled there was no case to answer and ordered the 31-year-old bachelor to be freed. The case could make saddle sniffing almost impossible to prosecute outside certain strict circumstances.
Unemployed former water treatment operative Dennison said nothing outside court, simply scuttling away making a high-pitched wailing sound. But he has vowed in previous newspaper interviews: “If I see a bike seat, I will sniff it. The law will come around to my way of thinking, eventually.”
Jo Prendergast, of feminist bike club Menstrual Cycle, blasted:“Again, the Establishment has side-stepped the very real issue that bicycle-seat sniffing leads to all manner of anti woman crimes. “One day it’s sniffing a bike seat, the next it’s glancing at bottoms or saying ‘hello’ to women in the street.”
Even enemies of cyclists have reacted with fury at Dennison’s vile antics. Brendan O’Cafferidge of the Taxpaying Road Users’ Forum said:“Anyone who uses Britain’s roads hates cyclists. “But not even these lycra wearing nincompoops deserve having their seating areas insufflated like this.”
On this very forum