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Now I don't want to bad mouthed Brooks, especially since it's my favourite brand, as well as them supporting the Tweeds run and actually have the LFGSS in their site.
But I have a growing concern that the Brooks saddle isn't as how it use to be, my first Brooks was a B17 4 years ago on my old rigid MTB it took a solid couple of months before it actually broken in, and then later on become very comfortable, it's on my missus' Brompton right now still as comfortable as ever.
Recently I brought a B17 and after a comfortable two weeks, it finally broken in, and got worse as time go by, now it look more worn out than the old B17 I brought 4 years ago, it's very uncomfortable and I can feel the metal support easily now.
Thinking it's an isolated incident, my father did got himself a B17 (he used to have one on his old bike), a month later, took it back to the shop with the same problem as mine.
Still thinking it's just a bad batch (or bad cow with too much facelift), I started hearing from other people on here and off the forum about how the saddle isn't as it use to be, someone here (can't remember who, sorry!) know a messenger from a city somewhere in the UK claim that Brooks saddle nowadays are too weak/soft compared to says 5 years ago, also noting that a couple years ago their production was 40,000 saddles a year, now it's 140,000 at maximum capacity.
Does anyone have any light in this? the B17 used to be very comfortable for me, now I have to look for other saddle that's nowhere as comfortable as my old B17 which made riding my bike less enjoyable than ever.