Brooks Saddle Test Ride Program

As the biggest dealer of Brooks England products in Calgary we get a lot of questions from our customers about Brooks saddles, with the most common being -

"Are they hard/uncomfortable?"

"How long do they take to break in?"

"How do I know that I'll like it if I buy it?"

All of these questions are important for sure but essentially unanswerable.  How do we know whether you'll like the saddle?  Well, we've decided to try and help you to answer that question on your own by letting you test ride a Brooks!

First, we selected a small collection of friends that already ride Brooks saddles and asked them to donate some of their ass's time to help you enjoy these saddles as much as they do.

Next, we've made available a few of Brooks most popular saddle models - B17, B15, Team Pro, Flyer, Imperial, Flyer S, B17S, and B67s Aged.

Here are the Test Pilots...

Test Pilot Keely

Test Pilot Jeff

Test Pilots Danimal and Treeface aka NiceGuys

Test Pilot Krocker

 

Test Pilot Dylan

Test Pilot Kristi

Our Test Pilots were selected based on their current love/use of Brooks Saddles and tasked with breaking in the saddles by riding them for about 3 weeks each, long enough to soften the leather but not so long that the saddle would become shaped to their particular bottoms. 

The Brooks Test Ride Program works like this - pop in or call to see which saddles are available.  We'll take your details (including a valid credit card number) and you get to ride the saddle for a few days at no charge.  If after the test ride you are convinced that a Brooks saddle is for you we'll happily sell you the model you'd like.  If however you hate the saddle and wish to never sit on one again, well, consider yourself lucky that you didn't have to pay to find that out :).

Pretty simple, right?

CityBike Conversions at BikeBike

Over at BikePortland.org there has been an ongoing discussion about women + bikes + preconceived notions about women in cycling - all of which we won't get into here.  If you want to delve deeper into the conversation, click on the link and dig in.

The point of this post is to simply show what will not happen to you if you are a women who has walked into BikeBike looking for some help or advise.

Cetainly, we can sell you a new bike if you so desire - and we can find you a pink cruiser if you like too! 

However, what we aim to do is to provide women (well, everyone really) with whatever they need to keep cycling everyday.  If, as the cartoon illustrates, you want to upgrade your current bike with more comfortable/utilitarian parts and accessories - we can help. 

We like to call such upgrades CityBike Conversions and we will be stocking much of what the cartoon describes - and more - to make converting your cherished bicycle easy and affordable.  Also, we have set aside some space in the store to provide a "fitting area" so you can experience what your bike will feel like with the upgrades you have chosen, before they are installed.  For more information on this service or to book an appointment, give us a call or drop us an email.

We know that many people love their beat up, or old, hand-me-down bikes (or and expensive bike that isn't fitting well for city riding) and simply want to make them more useful and we also appreciate that not everyone has the means to buy a new bike whenever the fancy strikes them.  Keep your current bike going with a few key upgrades and a small investment in parts and accessories.

Why buy a whole new bike if you don't have too?  Keep that old bike out of the landfill - by simply upgrading a few things and - BLAM-O! - your new converted city bike! 

CityBike Conversions at BikeBike - the economical way to keep riding, everyday.