Brooks Saddle B17 RBW Special

Brooks emailed or called and proposed a saddle idea: We could “design” any saddle we wanted, provided it used existing Brooks materials and technology. We’d get a six-month exclusive on it in North American (which includes the famous Canada). So we said OK, Yippee, thanks, we’ll take a B .17 in gray, copper rivets, black rails, and pebble top. It’s a perfect gray, and it will pick up nice beausage along the way.

Basic black instead of copper rails to match the rivets? Right. We didn’t want the blinginess, especially on the gray. Ti rails? We asked, Brooks nixed. That’s fine, and keeps the price down. We didn’t want an elite-price saddle. Could we get pebble top and carved lower flaps? Yes

It is a beautiful saddle, but there are no eyes on the part of your body that rests on the saddle and hides the beauty. Riding strangers can’t see it unless they’re positioned just so while you’re standing on the pedals, so it’s mainly lunch-stop and lock-up beauty. The pebble top may or may not be a B.17 first, but the B.68 has it, and it doesn’t seem to help or hurt either. 

• Length: 275mm
  
• Width: 175mm
  
• Height: 65mm
  
• Weight: 540g steel