Best Saddle Ever!
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bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
My experience of selling Brooks is:
90% satisfied customers with Brooks leather saddles, 70% with cambium.
The vast majority of brooks buyers are male, although most of our customers are women.
We only sell a few a year, but it's been a few years.
That's interesting, I liked the look of the Cambium but from a marketing perspective they went too far, too fast to the dark side of carbon.
bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
Embroidery can't possibly be adding comfort, so it's for display.
Display Components attract a certain type of consumer, connected in turn with enormous branding.
Allow me to show you to a relevant thread of mine:
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/extreme-component-branding-practices.489456/
Display Components attract a certain type of consumer, connected in turn with enormous branding.
Allow me to show you to a relevant thread of mine:
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/extreme-component-branding-practices.489456/
bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
Its the start of that "big branding" market, initially influenced by graffiti style and bmx imo
Some embroidered saddles wear your trousers out if you ride a long way. Others, the stitching colour fades and wears.
Like white trainers, they rarely look good after being well used.
The opposite of Brooks leather saddles
Some embroidered saddles wear your trousers out if you ride a long way. Others, the stitching colour fades and wears.
Like white trainers, they rarely look good after being well used.
The opposite of Brooks leather saddles
Fair point, I never thought of that! I doubt the pros that these saddles stem from ever used an embroidered saddle in their life! I guess it's about this period that embossed handlebar tape and toe clip straps came into fashion.
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