Experience the comfort of a leather saddle: this is one really sweet bike seat. Made by Gyes in Taiwan, it's a full-on leather saddle with adjustment screw to adjust leather tension as you wear the saddle in.

If you're looking at this part, you may already know about how much more comfortable leather saddles can be once they're worn in. I didn't know how great they were until riding one myself. Now I'll never ride anything but leather... they're comfortable right out of the box!

This saddle compares to the Brooks Flyer, and is very similar. It's NOT a Brooks saddle, but it gives all the hallmarks of a comfortable saddle.

This one is narrow and long for a more aggressive riding position with the handlebars lower or even with the saddle. Yet the springs are there to still cushion the blows and support the rider's weight on longer rides.

Leather care:

* You need to keep it out of the rain as much as possible
* The bottom of the saddle has a protective fabric screen to protect the leather from water sprayed by your tires
* You'll need to make sure you oil your saddle regularly, otherwise it'll dry out, crack and become worthless. Sheldon Brown's website has an excellent article on leather saddles and saddle care (Google "Sheldon Brown leather saddle"). We use Rawlings leather baseball glove oil and conditioner, but any suitable treatment used on baseball gloves, leather bike saddles, horse saddles and the like should do just fine.

Features:

* Color: Black leather
* Designed for down on the bars riding position
* Dual coil springs rear
* Full leather construction
* Textured top
* 280mm L x 170mm W (sized for men)
* Weighs 890g (1 lb 15 oz.)
* Includes wrenches for adjusting saddle tension after leather has settled a bit
* Model GS-16 Made in by Gyes in Taiwan with genuine, quality cow leather