Brookes saddles

Doki said:

I keep seeing a white brookes saddle advertised cheap.
If I bought it, is there anything I could use (normal
shoe / leather polish??) to make it black or tan rather
than white? Obviously, I'd like something that wouldn't
leave my backside the same colour as the saddle after I
get off it.

Is that a problem if you are wearing black cycling shorts?
Try some black liquid shoe polish.

Mike

color bleed is one of the reasons that cycling shorts are
black. Get some leather dye (don't use polishes, many
contain laquer that will ruin the saddle).

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Doki said:

I keep seeing a white brookes saddle advertised cheap. If I
bought it, is there anything I could use (normal shoe /
leather polish??) to make it black or tan rather than
white? Obviously, I'd like something that wouldn't leave my
backside the same colour as the saddle after I get off it.

Ahem. Brooks does not currently sell a white saddle, as far
as I know (www.permaco.com). Are you sure these are genuine
brooks saddles ?? I would be a little suspicious of a white
brooks saddle ... (what made it white?)

- Don Gillies

Doki said:

I keep seeing a white brookes saddle advertised cheap.
If I bought it, is there anything I could use (normal
shoe / leather polish??) to make it black or tan rather
than white? Obviously, I'd like something that wouldn't
leave my backside the same colour as the saddle after I
get off it.

Are you sure it isn't a vinyl model from a Triumph
three speed?

--
Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1
April, 1971

A Muzi said:

Doki said:

I keep seeing a white brookes saddle advertised cheap.
If I bought it, is there anything I could use (normal
shoe / leather polish??) to make it black or tan rather
than white? Obviously, I'd like something that wouldn't
leave my backside the same colour as the saddle after I
get off it.

Are you sure it isn't a vinyl model from a Triumph
three speed?

The ad says "Brookes leather saddle" or some such. I've not
seen it though

Donald Gillies said:

Doki said:

I keep seeing a white brookes saddle advertised cheap.
If I bought it, is there anything I could use (normal
shoe / leather polish??) to make it black or tan rather
than white? Obviously, I'd like something that wouldn't
leave my backside the same colour as the saddle after I
get off it.

Ahem. Brooks does not currently sell a white saddle, as
far as I know (www.permaco.com). Are you sure these are
genuine brooks saddles ?? I would be a little suspicious
of a white brooks saddle ... (what made it white?)

Brooks made some rather nasty non-leather saddles in the
1980s, including those hard plastic ones with no padding and
three little round holes (which my friends swore were to
allow flatulence to escape).

Zog The Undeniable said:

Donald Gillies said:

Doki said:

I keep seeing a white brookes saddle advertised cheap.
If I bought it, is there anything I could use (normal
shoe / leather polish??) to make it black or tan rather
than white? Obviously, I'd like something that wouldn't
leave my backside the same colour as the saddle after I
get off it.

Just forget it and find/wait for another one in black or
brown. It's not as if Brooks saddles are rare.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Ahem. Brooks does not currently sell a white saddle, as
far as I know (www.permaco.com). Are you sure these are
genuine brooks saddles ?? I would be a little suspicious
of a white brooks saddle ... (what made it white?)

Brooks made some rather nasty non-leather saddles in the
1980s, including those hard plastic ones with no padding
and three little round holes (which my friends swore were
to allow flatulence to escape).

Brooks also make some nasty non-leather saddles NOW (because
the company has been taken over by Selle Royal). Some of
these will have leather _covers_, though.

However, Brooks may have made some white versions of its
leather saddles, for all I know (if white is possible?).
There have been lots of limited edition "specials" with all
sorts of colour and design variations.

~PB