Wanted: Brooks Proofide

If anybody has a bit left in the tin, that they'd otherwise throw away, I'd love to have it please?

I can meet anywhere around central london, and willing to travel within zone 1-2 to get it.

Any amount would be much appreciated.

It's just lard & beeswax.

I'd use some beeswax if I were you.

Did you just bought a Brooks? It's really not that important to use the proofide. I have had my Brooks for about 5 years and have only used the proofide less than 5 times. First time I used it was over 2 years into using the saddle.

More important is to tension the leather I think. I didn't get the spanner when I bought mine (must have fallen out of the package as it was brand new) and ne'er bothed to buy one and now my saddle is in a but of an unusual shape.

Jeffries Leathercare (natural) contains beeswax, natural oils & fats, I've used it for years. You can get a 500ml tub for around £8-£9.
If you know some horsey types (as I do) then you can usually swag a free sample from shows and the like :o)

was also pondering this,

choices seem to be:

• the official stuff, £8 for 40g
  
  
• Chelsea Leather Food, 210ml for £6.49 (per dicki)
  
  
• G-Wax 80g, £3
  
  
• JEFFRIES LEATHER CARE 500ML, £8.40
  
  

the size of the chelsea is misrepresented above it's a big old tub

the brooks looks like it is in a kiwi sized tin i.e. not vey big

the brooks tin is closer to a vaseline lip balm tin in size, very small. I switch between whatever leather treatment comes to hand, sometimes brooks sometimes renapur, sometimes grangers and sometimes beeswax. They are all in cupboards somewhere and all seem to do a similar job.

The weird things about Proofide is that the cans seem to have contained a number of different products, resp. formulations, over the years. I not only have used Proofide with a number of different colours and textures but also smells. I think I currently have 2 variants in use: one red coloured and waxy and other a bit more creamy and tan. The current version sold in the shops, I think, is a bit more tallowish. Its basically a wax and lanolin treatment so there are clearly other alternatives. Saddle soap and beeswax are probably good alternatives. As wax, alongside high quality clear shoewax, one could make an optimized homemade mixture of bees and carnauba as a top-treatment. What is good for fine equestrian saddles--- some costing upwards of 5000 Quid--- is surely fine for bicycle saddles.

Price? One does not need terribly much. Apply from the bottom of the saddle when new and afterwards ONLY when really really needed and at most a very very thin swash on the top. The wee can should last for many years!

Still haven't put proofide on mine yet.

havent 'ridden it yet either. still piecing my bike together.

Do you apply product to the top of the saddle? I thought it was only underneath. But I've heard different recommendations online.

Top and bottom. It helps with the break in. Although I only apply a thin layer on top after a rainy day if I can remember, which isn't usually the case.