Looking for a "Brooks" like saddle

Never mind. Found it. It's the Selle An-Atomica Saddle at
http://www.teamestrogen.com/products.asp?pID=22581

Dan

"DanRH" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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This saddle was created by a guy who used the Brooks design but made it
anatomically. Actually, that may be in the name. Some long distance riders
swear by these custom saddles.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Thanks

DanRH said:

This saddle was created by a guy who used the Brooks design but made it
anatomically. Actually, that may be in the name. Some long distance riders
swear by these custom saddles.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Thanks

www.selleanatomica.com

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

DanRH said:

This saddle was created by a guy who used the Brooks design but made it
anatomically. Actually, that may be in the name. Some long distance riders
swear by these custom saddles.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Yeah. Check out the rivendell site.

--

David L. Johnson

"Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my business. The common
welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence,
were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of
water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
--Dickens, "A Christmas Carol"

Ozark Bicycle said:

DanRH said:

This saddle was created by a guy who used the Brooks design but made it
anatomically. Actually, that may be in the name. Some long distance riders
swear by these custom saddles.

Quoted message said:

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Quoted message said:

Thanks

www.selleanatomica.com

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

Structural integrity and good design thrown out the window, only $199!

Ozark Bicycle said:

DanRH said:

This saddle was created by a guy who used the Brooks design but made it
anatomically. Actually, that may be in the name. Some long distance riders
swear by these custom saddles.

Quoted message said:

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Quoted message said:

Thanks

www.selleanatomica.com

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

Structural integrity and good design thrown out the window, only $199!

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

www.selleanatomica.com

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

Structural integrity and good design thrown out the window, only $199!

Well, when you're wrong, you're REALLY wrong! I have this saddle and it is
the best one I've seen. I have tried to break in a Brooks B17 for about 9
months before I finally gave up on it. The selleanatomica saddle was
instantly comfortable and has remained so. They took the good parts of the
Brooks design and made it better. So, you should stick with what you
know---and you don't know anything about riding the selleanatomica. Oh--and
it didn't cost that much, either.

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landotter said:

On Oct 7, 9:55 pm, Ozark Bicycle

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On Oct 7, 9:42 pm, "DanRH" <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

This saddle was created by a guy who used the Brooks design but made it
anatomically. Actually, that may be in the name. Some long distance riders
swear by these custom saddles.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Thanks

Quoted message said:

www.selleanatomica.com

Quoted message said:

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

Structural integrity and good design thrown out the window, only $199!

The current American appetite for over-hyped. over-priced BS is
amazing, isn't it?

"Pat" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

www.selleanatomica.com

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

Structural integrity and good design thrown out the window, only $199!

Well, when you're wrong, you're REALLY wrong! I have this saddle and it is
the best one I've seen. I have tried to break in a Brooks B17 for about 9
months before I finally gave up on it. The selleanatomica saddle was
instantly comfortable and has remained so. They took the good parts of the
Brooks design and made it better. So, you should stick with what you
know---and you don't know anything about riding the selleanatomica.
Oh--and it didn't cost that much, either.

I've had a brooks b17 for 3 years now...no problems breaking it in and I see
no reason for that hole in the middle of the selleanatomica...I'm not sure
if I want my vitals bits hanging through that slot! Ouch! 🙂

Pat said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

www.selleanatomica.com

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

Quoted message said:

Structural integrity and good design thrown out the window, only $199!

Well, when you're wrong, you're REALLY wrong! I have this saddle and it is
the best one I've seen. I have tried to break in a Brooks B17 for about 9
months before I finally gave up on it.

A Brooks takes less than 50 miles to break in.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ozark Bicycle said:

landotter said:

On Oct 7, 9:55 pm, Ozark Bicycle

Quoted message said:

On Oct 7, 9:42 pm, "DanRH" <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

> This saddle was created by a guy who used the Brooks design but made it
> anatomically. Actually, that may be in the name. Some long distance riders
> swear by these custom saddles.

Quoted message said:

> Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Quoted message said:

> Thanks

Quoted message said:

www.selleanatomica.com

Quoted message said:

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

Structural integrity and good design thrown out the window, only $199!

The current American appetite for over-hyped. over-priced BS is
amazing, isn't it?

That's why infomercials exist. And MS Windows
in its various incarnations.

Personally I'd feel somewhat awkward, buying a
[slotted] saddle from a place called Team Estrogen.
I guess I'm not so liberated after all. OTOH,
I might like to meet their sales staff. Especially
if some of 'em are pixie-ish[*]

The saddles I find most comfortable for me are
the ones that came with '70s Bike Boom bikes.
Cross-hatch-tufted black pleather, flat w/ neither
cantle nor other convex contours, and just adequately
enough nose. Acquiring one with the chromed coil
springs in the back is a bonus. ArmorAll those
beauties and they come up sparkling.

So many saddle profferings these days are too rounded.
There are not enough flat saddles available. I bet the
Brooks people get enamoured with their saddles, not
because they're leather, but because they're flat.
But you don't have to pay top dollar for a durable,
nice, flat saddle.

Modern saddles are overly contoured.
They're overly engineered.
Plain ol' flat is good.

cheers,
Tom

[*] There are two basic female body types: coltish
and pixieish. There's also Nubile, but that's
more-or-less a stretched-out variation on coltish.
I luv 'em all, anyways.

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

"Tom Keats" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Personally I'd feel somewhat awkward, buying a
[slotted] saddle from a place called Team Estrogen.

After your bits have been hangin through that slot for a while, estrogen
will be your best option.

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Roger Zoul said:

"Tom Keats" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Personally I'd feel somewhat awkward, buying a
[slotted] saddle from a place called Team Estrogen.

After your bits have been hangin through that slot for a while, estrogen
will be your best option.

I like estrogen. As long as it's in somebody
endearably else.

I think dairy products are a good thing, too.

Speaking of which, y'know what I sorely miss?
The plain ol' Dixie Cup[tm]. They haven't been
available here for years. I dunno if they're
still available Stateside.

A paper cup of the hardest vanilla ice cream in
the world, plus a flat, stubby, wooden spoon.
Heaven.

A Dixie Cup and a bottle of the soft drink of your
choice at the time, and you'd have the best float
in the world. mmm ... a cream soda float, and
memories of sharing it with Annette Schuster
(G-d bless her.) Good ol' days. In my childhood
years she was the best squirtgun sniper on the block.
She could also moon-rocket a softball like Reggie Jackson.
She could spike a volleyball with a fist of fury. And
she inculcated in me an appreciation of roller skating.
And she was great to ride bike with.

It's funny, how a stoopid little thing like a
Dixie Cup can be so meaningful & poignant.

Anyways I guess by now you're wondering where I'm
going with all this nostalgia, and how I'm gonna
segue this into an on-topic thing about bicycles.
So, here goes:

I had an idyllic childhood in East Vancouver, during
the '50s and early '60s. And I lived atop what was
then an imposing hill to bomb down on a homemade
skateboard, but is now a trivial hump. Annette Schuster
with her lace-on, clay-wheeled roller skates clobbered
me every time, bombing down E 21st Ave from Maxwell St
to Fleming St. I tried to introduce her to stilts, but
for some reason she was reluctant.

I guess I already posted about the time me 'n Davie
Rosemeyer tried to push his older sister's Morris
Mini Minor around the block.

Many of my neighbours were post-war refugees from
Europe, and the Ukraine and Sasquatchewan. They
brought with them their "takes" on cycling, and
I learned from them.

And that's my scene. When people at work ask me
about my ancestry, I tell them: "I'm Vancouver
East End-ish". Because that is what I am, and
all I know. And I ride bike because that's part
of my culture. Sometimes people insist that's
not valid enough. They figure I /must/ somehow
be connected with some identifiable Old World roots.

Well, Vancouver East-End is pretty much all I know.
Especially Cedar Cottage. It's not resplendent with
cycling facilities, but sometimes it's a good place
to be in. The rain there is beautiful. Along E 22nd
St is a row of Eastern Maple trees. They were planted
there by a Great War vet who wanted to commemorate his
lost & blown-up buddies. I still recall my amused thrills
at seeing their seed-pods helicoptering down to the ground
while I was walking or biking to school.

You've gotta be what you are, not what your predecessors were.

I could sure go for some kapusta right now.
And a big garlic pickle.

I sure hope nobody ever gets blown-up again.
There's already been more than enough of that razmatazz.

cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Well, when you're wrong, you're REALLY wrong! I have this saddle and it
is
the best one I've seen. I have tried to break in a Brooks B17 for about 9
months before I finally gave up on it.

A Brooks takes less than 50 miles to break in.

Do NOT assume that your experience is the norm. When I was having so dang
much trouble breaking this thing in, I started doing a google search and
found out that many, many people have problems with Brooks saddles. That is
why, if you start a Brooks thread, half of the people writing in will tell
you they hate the things!

P.s. Want to buy a little used Brooks B-17?

Pat in TX

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Personally I'd feel somewhat awkward, buying a
[slotted] saddle from a place called Team Estrogen.

After your bits have been hangin through that slot for a while, estrogen
will be your best option.

What, you ride naked, now?

"Pat" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Personally I'd feel somewhat awkward, buying a
[slotted] saddle from a place called Team Estrogen.

After your bits have been hangin through that slot for a while, estrogen
will be your best option.

What, you ride naked, now?

haha.

"Pat" <[email hidden]> wrote >

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P.s. Want to buy a little used Brooks B-17?

Perhaps...

landotter said:

Ozark Bicycle said:

DanRH said:

This saddle was created by a guy who used the Brooks design but made it
anatomically. Actually, that may be in the name. Some long distance riders
swear by these custom saddles.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Thanks

www.selleanatomica.com

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

Structural integrity and good design thrown out the window, only $199!

Especially when marketed by a company (Rivendell) that considers itself
somehow above all the hype and marketing over substance.

BTW, that looks like a truly nasty saddle. If the wrong thing gets in
there, it'd pinch something fierce.

--

David L. Johnson

Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig...
You soon find out the pig likes it!

Pat said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Well, when you're wrong, you're REALLY wrong! I have this saddle and it
is
the best one I've seen. I have tried to break in a Brooks B17 for about 9
months before I finally gave up on it.

Quoted message said:

A Brooks takes less than 50 miles to break in.

Do NOT assume that your experience is the norm. When I was having so dang
much trouble breaking this thing in, I started doing a google search and
found out that many, many people have problems with Brooks saddles. That is
why, if you start a Brooks thread, half of the people writing in will tell
you they hate the things!

IMO, the point being made was that if the thing ain't comfy in 50-100
miles, it ain't ever gonna be comfy. IOW, it's just not right for
*you*.

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P.s. Want to buy a little used Brooks B-17?

Post it on one of the Riv groupie sites, they'll snap it up.

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On Oct 8, 7:46 pm, "David L. Johnson" <[email hidden]>

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landotter said:

Ozark Bicycle said:

On Oct 7, 9:42 pm, "DanRH" <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> This saddle was created by a guy who used the Brooks design but made it
> anatomically. Actually, that may be in the name. Some long distance riders
> swear by these custom saddles.
> Anyone know what I'm talking about?
> Thanks
www.selleanatomica.com

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Lotsa hype + high prices.......should be a big hit in today's market.

Quoted message said:

Structural integrity and good design thrown out the window, only $199!

Especially when marketed by a company (Rivendell) that considers itself
somehow above all the hype and marketing over substance.

IMO, that's all in the past; nowadays Riv is just as much "hype and
market" as anyone else....just with a bit of folksy flavored snake oil
instead of high tech double-talk.

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BTW, that looks like a truly nasty saddle. If the wrong thing gets in
there, it'd pinch something fierce.