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The Leather Bike Saddle
In the fast-moving world, every year some revolutionary saddle designs are introduced and these stylish saddles gets popular among cycling communities and riders of different disciplines.
Still, there is one technology that served the best from ages and hasn’t change substantially since 1880- The Hammock style, Tensioned leather saddles
Same as a good pair of leather shoes, Leather saddles gets softer with use and gradually molds itself to fit a particular person’s anatomical shape.
Relieve The Uneven Pressure –
While peddling whatever part of your body rear end pushes hardest on the saddle causes the corresponding part of the saddle to get softer and stretches to relieve the uneven pressure.
Best For Long Rides –
Once you break in, leather saddle are particularly good for long rides, unlike plastic/syntactic saddles , Leather saddles use no insulating foam for softness, Leather is a breathable material that makes them cooler and allows perspiration to evaporate through the saddle, so they are less likely to cause chafing and saddle sores
The Bag loops –
The tension adjusting Nut and leash on side flaps:-
The leash should be loose till the saddle breaks in, if the leader saddle gets too soft after several thousand km, you can tight the leash to get the required hardness. Tension adjustment nut is the last thing to touch. With a little twist of tension nut on clockwise direction you can see the drastic difference in hardness so only if required do it cautiously.
People who can’t do routine maintenance, should avoid as leather saddles need utmost care.
Leather saddles are Not for Everyone:-
Leather bike saddles are best choice for serious cyclist, recreational sports riders and over whelming choice for the long distance tourist.
But not recommended for those who ride a lot in rain, as excessive wetness is bed for leather.
- One definitely need to break in – new leather saddles are hard and rigid, it takes several hundred km to break one in. Regular ride and maintenance is required to fasten up the process of breaking in.
- There are colourless oils for leather are available in market, one should use such leather oil on both the side of saddle and massage on top, particularly to the area of seat bones, you can use good amount of oil for initial few weeks and wipe the excessive oil off with a cotton cloth or paper towel.
- Once the saddles gets soft and comfortable, still one has to oil it lightly every few weeks to prevent it from drying.
- With Regular maintenance the leather saddle will outshine bike, remain comfortable and last longer.
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