| Re: Terry leather saddle durability?
GRL wrote:
> Just got a Terry Liberator leather (Italian) saddle from Performance to
> replace a two year old Cloud-9 lycra-covered saddle on which the lycra was
> wearing through.
>
> After one 17 mile ride on the Terry (dry conditions), the leather top on one
> side was chaffing off (actually the surface coating on the leather was) over
> a 2 sq. inch area. Looked like what happens to your skin after it has been
> in water a long time and you rub it making the dead top layer chaff off.
> Same thing was happening on the other side on a smaller scale.
>
> 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?
>
> This crushes my favorable opinion of Terry.
I use Terry Fly Ti saddles on both my mountain bike and cyclocross bike.
I've ridden quite a few miles on both and crashed a bunch of times -
mostly offroad but a couple of times on asphalt. Aside from a slight
dulling of the finish (which I could probably fix with some polishing if
I cared about such things), the saddles have held up great and I don't
see any quality issues.
I bought both saddles from Performance as well so I'm not sure why yours
is wearing so soon (unless the Liberator and Fly are made to different
quality specs). I'd imagine you just got one from a bad run or when the
quality control employee was on a smoke break.
- khill
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