WTD: Specialized Toupe to borrow

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  • Anyone in Cambridge got a Specialzed Toupe preferably in the 143 size I could borrow? I'm looking to change the saddle on my road bike and don't want to splash out for a saddle I might find excruciating. It would be for a week max and I would pay to replace it if it got damaged

    Thanks,
    Gabe

  • Bum sweat ?

  • ^urgh!
    Reckon you'd need the 130, I had the 143 for a bit but it chafed my inner thighs! Recently sold it on ebay.
    130 fits me like a dream. Wanna borrow it?
    You could always go into Ben Haywards and use their bum measuring device, on the pretext that you're going to buy a saddle, or rather you need the measurements to tell your mum so she can get you the right one for Christmas. :)

  • Yes I'd love to, I am more than willing to lend you a saddle in return if needs be, wasn't planning buying new as there a tonnes knocking about on fleaBay so not sure what Haywards would say. If I told my Mum I wanted a comfy saddle for Christmas I'd end up with one of these beauties;

  • I think the idea is to get your bum measured and tell them your parents are buying you one... when in fact they aren't, it's all a scam and you are a massive liar. You walk out and buy it way cheaper elsewhere.

    A bit like saying "Hmmmm, I'll think about it and come back" and then never do.

  • I did that in Campkins once, I tried a medium format camera and broke it in front of the salesman but didn't tell him. I told him I'd think about it. See ya...

  • It was old and fucked and he was trying to sell me a dodgy camera, I basically just caught him out.

  • (True story)

  • I hate people like that (true story)

  • You might want to live with it a bit longer - my Toupe felt like it was going to crack my arse bones for the first couple of weeks but got super comfy after this.

  • The hope by borrowing one would be that it would already be ridden in

  • they don't wear in. it's not a brooks, it's plastic. it's your arse that 'wears in'.

  • it's your arse that 'wears in'.

    Sounds painful!

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