Thinking of putting a Brooks back on the old Raleigh Sports

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Permalink Reply by Mike Bullis 5.5-6.5 miles on December 4, 2010 at 10:09pm

You probably won't like the Flyer for upright riding, think ass-hatchet. Wider will probably work better for you. I'm partial to the B68 for upright riding.

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on December 5, 2010 at 5:40pm

Mike Bullis said:

You probably won't like the Flyer for upright riding, think ass-hatchet. Wider will probably work better for you. I'm partial to the B68 for upright riding.

Thanks. I have an ass-hatchet on it right now and it doesn't really bother me too much as my hips are very narrow and have a very narrow width between the sit bonzes. I've got one of those bodies that is wide at the shoulders and just keeps getting narrower on the way down all the way to my ankles like an upside-down triangle. If I don't wear a belt my pants fall down. Even with a belt cinched to uncomfortable levels someone could still yank my pants down if they sneaked up behind me and pulled hard enough. Hips are narrower than my waistline.

Funny that I can ride a woman's saddle and it doesn't bother me usually. I can ride just about any saddle and it doesn't bother me unless it is too wide and chafes my thighs -hate that. I also dislike soft saddles as it tends to crawl up my crack and bunch or push up on the brown eye directly. That sucks too.

I'll have to look into the B68. I've looked at the stock B66 and the B67 of various lengths (that doesn't seem to make much of a difference to me either) but I've never seen a B68.