[Closed] Suspension post or sprung Brooks saddle?

Sprung saddle would probably work OK, though it would depend on where exactly the bag attached.

I think I still have a 26.8mm sprung seatpost somewhere if you want to try it out (possibly might have a shim or two for it too).

It’s for the Fargo... Seat pack would be an Alpkit Koala...

Mmmm Pimms

I have a sprung Brooks saddle in excellent condition sat in the garage doing nothing. I did use it riding through the local woods on a hard tail fixie. It was quite good at what it did. Soaked up a lot of the rough stuff and gave me a comfortable ride. Only took it off when I moved full time onto the road.

I'd be quite happy for it to go to a good home if you are interested. Comes with a straight line seat post. Even got a tin of Proofhide you can have as well

Ooh what model/colour is it?

Will your seatpack fit on a sprung Brooks? Just thinking about how it attaches.

A dark brown B66.

No idea if it will fit hence why asking 🙂

That’s the exact one I’ve been looking at!

I'll get if out and see what it's like. Not seen it for a month or three. Not looking for a fortune, maybe £35 posted.

Cool, that’d be awesome, thanks

I've had a look, and I'm surprised how well it looks! It's covered in proofhide at the moment which I must have done to give it some protection when I stopped using it. The springs/chrome bits are all nice and clean and rust free. There is just a slight strain on one of the front rivets, but nothing of any size. I sourced a straight 27.2 seatpost for it to fit in the standard Brookes clamp thingy, which was new when I fitted it. One or two slight scuffs on the back of the saddle - I presume someone has turned the bike upside doen to mend a puncture, but again these are very slight and of cosmetic interest only.
Looks pretty good to me.

Pm me and we’ll go from there 👍🏻

Why not both?

I've got both a suntour ncx suspension seat post and a sprung saddle (not brooks though). The suspension post handles the big stuff but I can't get it to be as sensitive as I'd like, possibly because I'm on the heavy side so the preload is high. The saddle adds that sensitivity. Next bike will be full suspension instead of rigid so we'll see how that affects the need for suspension posts and saddles.

A suspension seatpost with a parallelogram action like the thudbuster will work very much better than a sprung saddle. The arc of movement is different meaning the distance from seat to BB remains almost constant so you get much less bob for the same amount of movement and these sprung seatposts usually move a lot more anyway.

I can say that I've used a ThudBuster for EVER, and never felt the need for a sprung saddle as well.

I have Thudbusters (both sorts) and sprung Brooks saddles.

I regard the sprung saddles as being for more upright bikes and for ironing out road irregularities, and a blessing for 200km days. You'd very quickly use up all the movement in mtb use, but ok for gravel.

The Thudbusters are good, but pretty pointless if you ride single speed because you don't spend much time in the saddle. They work better than linear sprung seatposts IMO. Mine were set to only operate on substantial hits.

I went OTB and broke my arm using a USE sprung post.
I took my hands off the bars, sat upright to stretch on a wide, straight Sustrans trail and it compressed/my weight shifted on a little bump leading to a quick dismount/painful crash.
Lesson learned. Post went on eBay

I love my brooks flyer. Great on the road bike for big days out and pot holes while commuting.

It was great on the South Downs way on my Hardtail. Not any where as good as a full suss but just made two days pedaling much nicer😀

Bought a suntour ncx for the HT dissing the winter as I have a bad back.

Really, really good for the money. Far better than it should be for such a low price.

Saddle from Sarawak arrived today, perfect thank you... Just a query relating to the twin rails/post... I need a longer post for it/my bike (no problem, sjs have them in stock and are cheap) however is it ok to just use a normal seatpost clamping on to the lower set of rails? I’ve tried my existing post and it fits and clamps fine, will using it cause issues?

Hi Houns. Thanks for the PM.
I wondered if the post might be shorter than you would like, but as you say the interweb is full of them at various lengths and cheap as chips.
I tried using my normal clamp, but the rails were too small a diameter, so there was movement, hence the dedicated clamp. Some Brookes saddles need three rail clamps so my guess is that there is some design reason for this. However I was going to just try and see how I got on. Nothing to lose is there?