Originally Posted by
Mulberry20
Fabric makes great saddles. I have two Scoops. I used to think that saddles and rear ends needed to be matched but I honestly think that is a myth. There are good saddles and bad saddles.
That is one saddle that had me in intense pain. It was picked out by my custom bike maker because it matched so well and looked great, and I was reluctant to take it off, but when I did it was like the feeling you get when you stop hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. Except not my head.
I had a B-17 (with copper rivets) on this for several years, but am now using a Berthoud: