Experience the comfort of a leather saddle: this is one really sweet saddle. 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 for the first time about a year ago. Now I'll never ride anything but leather.

This saddle compares to the Brooks B67, and is very similar. It's not a Brooks saddle, but you're also not paying the Brooks premium.

This wide, shorter saddle is meant for a more upright riding position, with the handlebars higher than the saddle. The springs are design to support the weight of the rider in an upright position.

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: Honey brown leather
* Dual coil springs rear
* Full leather construction
* Textured top
* 270mm W x 210mm L (sized for men)
* Weighs 874g (1 lb 15 oz.)
* Includes wrenches for adjusting saddle tension after leather has settled a bit
* Model GS-07 made by Gyes in Taiwan with genuine, quality cow leather