Terry leather saddle durability? - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

05-28-2004, 04:21 PM

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.

- GRL

"It's good to want things."

Steve Barr (philosopher, poet, humorist, chemist,
Visual Basic programmer)