Which modern day saddles suit a Viscount?

Many will work, I can only say what I like. My favorite saddles for my classic bikes are the Brooks B17 Imperial and the Selle Anatomica X.

They look right and are very comfortable on my bum.

I wish I could find a modern lightweight saddle with the same level of comfort.

All the Best
Jim

Jem,

I'd suggest you try to sample a Brooks Cambium C15 in black or slate if you can. I have a C17 that I have used on the Victor, and it is undoubtedly more comfortable than the Charge Spoon that I have on my old MTB (but then it should be with an RRP about 5 times that of the Spoon). The Cambium feels firm when I first sit down onto it, but then it just does its job when I'm riding and I forget about it altogether. The C17 may not be quite as cosseting as my old but well cared for B17, but there is no 'breaking in' or waterproofing required.

I don't know if the Sport or Pro came with leather upholstery as standard, but my Sebring originally came with a particularly firm and painful plastic-based saddle with a very thin overlay of softer black vinyl that looked as though the quilting effect had been added with a soldering iron. You're welcome to borrow it if you're looking for an original Viscount saddle!

Trying to save a few bucks, I tried a Gyes leather saddle crowcycleco.com/bicycle-components/saddles-seats/ they can be cheaper than a Brooks, but they are also cheaper than a Brooks. They are the most difficult saddle to break in that I have yet to encounter; the leather is hard like plastic. My old trick of soaking difficult saddles in a bucket of Neatsfoot oil did not help. I will not buy another.

Cheers
Jim

I'm a massive Ideale fan myself (and VERY happy that the company is being revived: www.victoire-cycles.com/en/news/come-back-id%C3%A9ale-saddles.html) but it really doesn't make sense to tell put a French saddle on an English bike. So for most people I would say Brooks is the way to go.

The other good options are the Italian saddles of the era that have been reissued in the last view years, namely the Selle Italia Turbo (edit:whoops! Just realised this was the saddle that sooper8 was talking about!)




and the three Selle San Marco classics, the Concor Supercorsa, the Regal and the Rolls.





All these seats are plastic shelled seat with leather covering, and some small amount of padded material. This style of seat I find more immediately comfy that leather saddles like Brooks or Ideale, but the latter are preferrable over time (and distance). b

I've seen a lot of nice vintage look saddles from PlanetX (UK) at very good prices.... Have purchased 2 of their Holdsworth brand retro cranksets. Reasonably priced even w/ shipping to the US.

Actually, I thought the general saddle section had more vintage look saddles than the vintage section:

www.planetx.co.uk/c/q/components/finishing-kit/saddles

+1 On Avocets, we got a house bike this spring, vintage '70s but it had an Avocet on it, I had another bicycle with an Avocet. Good make. If they are a later date, it's just barely.

Brooks Cambium, what a price but at that, it is intriguing and if someone says it does the job, Robt. above, it probably does. I saw it at the store today.

road.cc/content/review/115982-brooks-cambium-c17-saddle  <--- Picture, these Brooks' are not the conventional leather saddles it seems.

I saw also, there is a prior mention of VO possibly having come out with their own version.

Chain Reaction Cycles has a version at a reasonable price if that is current. $113.

I like the style of those, particularly the Mercia tourer. No outlets in the UK though.