BROOKS SADDLE MAINTENANCE & CARE. Make Your Saddle Last.

Brooks Proofide Leather Dressing Available here

Brooks Saddle Maintenance Kit available here

Leather is a natural material which will provide lasting comfort, coolness in hot weather, style and durability. If you read and follow these simple indications your Brooks saddle will adapt itself to you and retain its support and comfort. A new saddle should be treated with Brooks Proofide Leather Dressing to help assist the "breaking-in" process. Proofide helps to keep the leathe supple as it is carefully formulated from special ingredients to conditions, preserve and showerproof your saddle. Proofide needs to be applied to the underside of the saddle and in this case it should be left on. Apply very little Proofide on top to the finished side of the leather. Allow the Proofide to permeate until dry and then polish off with a cloth avoiding getting it on your clothes. Proofide must not be applied to the upper side of the Aged saddles. This Leather dressing should be used several times during the "breaking-in" period and every few months thereafter. Brooks Proofide is the only substance that should be used to care for your saddle. Leather is a natural material and its stiffness can vary within different parts of the same leather bend and between different bends. Small marks, minor scratches and differences in the leather are not to be considered defects. The leather gets its colour during the tanning process and it is possible, therefore, that some colour residue will remain. Avoid riding your saddle with white or lightly coloured trousers. It is recommended to polish thesaddle with a cotton cloth before first use. You should protect your Brooks leather bicycle saddle from moisture with a saddle cover. If a wet saddle is ridden the colour may stain your clothing. Allow your Brooks saddle to dry naturally. Never tension a wet Brooks saddle, nor apply Proofide to it. Correct leather tension will ensure your Brooks saddle retains its shape and comfort. To tension the leather top, turn the nose bolt nut 90' at a time, then check tension. You can use the tension spanner or an allen key to do this, depending on the Brooks saddle model. Over-tensioning a Brooks saddle will stretch the  eather fibres and may damage their structure. Little tension and not very often is the key. Remember, once the end of the is reached, the Brooks saddle can no longer be tensioned. Please note that Brooks Aged and Brooks Imperial saddles should break-in faster and could need to be tensioned more often if you compare them with Brooks Heritage Saddles. Brooks Aged and Brooks Imperial Saddles are delivered with a lace to allow the tensioning of the flaps. The lace should always be tied to prevent premature sagging of the leather. Brooks produces a range of saddles varying fro road racing saddles to heavy duty saddles in various colours with single, double and even triple wires. Whilst single rail Brooks saddles can be used with a micro-adjust seat post, remember that with double and triple rail Brooks saddles the clip provided should always be used, as this supports the saddle and rider, correctly preventing premature breakage to the rails.

BROOKS SADDLE ADJUSTMENT. Comfort Starts from Here.

The riders's comfort will depend to a much greater extent than is generally imagined, upon the correct adjustment of the Brooks saddle on the machine. The great thing to bear in mind is that, to obtain the comfort and immunity from injuriuos pressure, the weight must be carried by the broad part of the saddle. The peak should carry as little weight as possible. The nose is mainly intended to ensure a sure and steady seat, which a peakless saddle would not do. By attention to the following hints the correct position should be readily attained. The Brooks Saddle should be placed:

1. just sufficiently behind the crank-axle to allow the rider to sit upon the broad part of the saddle, while riding, without being pulled forward on the peak by the onward thrust of the leg;
2. with the peak positioned just high enough to prevent the rider from slipping forward; this is normally attained when the surface of the bicycle saddle is parallel to the ground;
3. just low enough to enable the rider to reach the pedals comfortably all round, without even a suspicion of stretching after them.

LIFETIME SERVICE. Spares, Parts & Repair.

Some breakages of Brooks Saddles can be repaired by your authorised bicycle mechanic, others need to be carried out by the Brooks Craftsmen. Not every failure can be repaired but if the leather top of your bicycle saddle is formed, and in good condition, chances are you can save the cost of buying a new saddle and having to break it in all over again. On the Brooks website you can find all the spares parts listed and you can them by contacting us on sales@leatherbicyclesaddles.co.uk , but remember that for your safety it is Brooks England Ltd. urges you that you carry out the repair through your authourised bicycle mechanic.

GUARANTEE. Register your Brooks saddle at www.brooksengland.com/forever
 
Brooks Saddles are handmade in England and are guaranteed for 2 years from the date of purchase against defects in manufacture or materials. If you believe you have claim under this guarantee, you should return the Brooks Saddle to the place of purchase (hopefully us!) and along with your proof of purchase.
  Should you be afraid to lose your proof of purchase we suggest you to register at www.brooksengland.com/forever. This will allow Us and Brooks England Ltd. to prove when your saddle was bought and to receive the Brooks Newsletter to be updated on new products, services events, etc. In order to register you need to know the 3 digit code which is stamped on the underside of your saddle. This code is a sequence of "number, letter, number" You also need to enter the date, the place of purchase, and some additional. Brooks England Ltd. will not accept claims due to crashes, accidents or low saddle maintenance and care, as in common case of cyclists who forget to tension their Brooks saddle and end up sitting on the metal structure.

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