Comments on: 11/19/2012 – Shaving Soles

By: baudmania@gmail.com

baudmania@gmail.com — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:24:11 +0000

Cantis would give Yehuda the ability to fettle and tinker and adjust his brakes to suit the occasion. Remember, he’s a purist and old-school, and many people choose cantis over anything else because of their adjustability. Feel, power, modulation, all just a few cable adjustments away.
(Of course, for the rest of us, they can be annoying, altho my ‘good’ bike has them).

By: Mr Z

Mr Z — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:14:38 +0000

I second the vote for the B-67 – put one on my wife’s Crusoe when we ordered from Bike Friday. The mechanics and sales staff had a brief drool session – two Brooks saddles, and Nitto bars. Noodle for me, the Albatross for her

By: Dale in Indy

Dale in Indy — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:59:53 +0000

Ah, Yolanda, nothing like a well broken-in leather saddle. And Brooks makes some nicely sprung saddles, both for male and female. I have one B-17on my fixed gear and a B-67 sprung saddle on my commuter.

By: McQ

McQ — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:41:24 +0000

Yolanda, you really should try a Brooks (or Ideale) saddle. My bride balked at the idea until she tried B-17. Then I got her the B-17W and it is actually more comfortable than many more technical saddles. No squinching involved!

By: Adam in Baltimore

Adam in Baltimore — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:26:45 +0000

That’s the B-17 saddle, which is a touring saddle, not a racing saddle, and is designed for optimum comfort over long distances on a bicycle exactly like the one pictured. The female version, the B-17 s, is virtually identical, but with a slightly stubbier nose, for skirts. The B-17 is not a narrow saddle. It has a medium width, which rests male and female seat bones in just the right way. The philosophy is that the human butt, be it male or female, is most comfortable when the the seat bones have a stable platform, and that cushioning only leads to seat bone bruising and chafing.

I disagree slightly with Kurt, in that wider seats are designed for fully upright bicycles, which the bike in the above comic is not.

By: Mike Schwab

Mike Schwab — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:53:29 +0000

Just put some one bread bag over the sock and rubber booties over the sandals.

By: Mike Schwab

Mike Schwab — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:52:18 +0000

Lance was known as Mr. Millimeter. He would adjust his seat by that little amount.

By: Kurt The Mechanic

Kurt The Mechanic — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:48:36 +0000

I assure you that a properly broken-in Brooks B-17 is the most comfortable saddle you will ever ride and it will grow and change with you. if you need something wider than the B-17 than you either do not ride that often or have a bad bike fit.

By: Vantastique

Vantastique — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:34:49 +0000

I agree about the seat. Too narrow even for men. Might be fine for racing where you’re not going to seat much but not for a guy like Yehuda on his vehicle of transportation.

By: troiker

troiker — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:21:59 +0000

What I really like about the comments for this comic is how you learn so much – I found out things about transformers yesterday that I didn’t previously know, and today I have added a new word to my vocabulary – “squinch” – which I looked up to find it meant:
squinch
1 [skwinch] Show IPA
noun Architecture .
a small arch, corbeling, or the like, built across the interior angle between two walls, as in a square tower for supporting the side of a superimposed octagonal spire.

Not quite sure how that relates to saddles, though……