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Hi,
So...my family decides to suprise me and buys me a "touring seat" from British Customs. Here is my feedback. Made by Saddleman, not Yuir Bros as posted on their site. This saddle is really nice looking..but...its is a very firm seat that has the saddleman saddle gel built into it. We took a 300 mile ride last weekend. Seat was really really firm and not soft at all. According to them, it never will get "soft' but will "relax" over time. I felt like I was sitting on a wooden chair. Well...on our trip, I met someone who has the same seat but on a metric. He said they are like Corbin...hard but when breaks in...they are great. I was able to ride about 1 1/2 hours before needing to stop. If anyone has this seat, can you tell me how long it takes to break in? Overall, I have ridden 300 miles on the seat and it still feels like wood.
As for my wife, she feels that anything is better than the stock one we had on.
Thanks,
Ron

if it is like the corbin then it will take you a few thousand klm or so for it to fit right, it will still be harder then most but its not the softness you are after to be comfortable its the support in the right places on your behind. I have a newer corbin, has about 2k klm on it now, just rode to and from Nelson BC about 1800 klm or so and i was good for about 4-5 hours before i could feel a bit "need off". But its getting better.

I have two corbins. After riding to Key West on Prudence with Vera's corbin, I decided to remove Vera's corbin from Prudence and use Cinnamon Girl's corbin on Prudence for the ride to Montana last month.

Both corbins are the hard type. Vera's rides harder than Cinnamon Girl's for some reason.

What you have is a hard saddle. Will it break in? No. But your buttocks will. That said, the leather will shift to match your back side. Just a smidgen though. The beautify of a hard saddle is the lack of hot spots, the fact that it allows one to sit in the bike instead of being perched on top such as the oem saddle placement is.