| Re: Terry leather saddle durability?
It's not the leather itself that is wearing. It's the finish coat coming off
from contact with my cotton shorts. In any case, that old saddle was
lycra-covered which is nowhere near as tough a material as any leather I'm
familiar with...and it lasted two years with the wear-through coming at the
corners, probably exacerbated by lots of sun-exposure (my bike lives on my
bike carrier when not in use with the saddle covered by a plastic bag).
This Terry saddle wear is on the flat surface area, not the corners. It
looks like the result of really poor leather finishing. I mean really poor.
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- GRL
"It's good to want things."
Steve Barr (philosopher, poet, humorist, chemist,
Visual Basic programmer)
"Ken" <no@spam.no> wrote in message
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> "GRL" <GLitwinski@CHARTERMI.COM> wrote in
> news:10bfibk558bat82@corp.supernews.com:
> > I was utterly shocked. I bought leather because I thought it would be
> > more durable. (The leather seats on our 13 year old Toyota have never
> > done this.) Is this typical of the leather Terry uses? Is this typical
> > of other leather saddles? It can't be, I hope. Who would buy the things?
>
> How heavy are you? Some bike saddles use a super-thin leather cover that
can
> wear out pretty quickly under a very heavy rider. Compare those to a
thick
> leather saddle like those made by Brooks.
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