Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve Reviews
Review score: 9.2/10 – Updated May, 2024
Latest Price: £9.89 – Save 10% (RRP: £10.99)
Take a look now to discover what makes Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve worthy of a review score of 9.2 out of 10.
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Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve features
Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve
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Spec 1
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Size: 50ml Tub, 30ml Tub Other Saddles found with this Spec: 1 |
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Feature 1
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50ml tub or 30ml tub options Other Saddles found with this feature: 1 |
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Price
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£9.89 |
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Number of Reviews
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98 |
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Review Score
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4.8 / 5 Average score in category: 4.4/5 |
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Quality
Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Saddles. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.
Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Saddles. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.
There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Saddles. Brands like Brooks England are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.
Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Saddles category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.
Comparing Prices
Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Saddles.
It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.
Price of Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve.
We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £9.89 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.4 out of 10 for price.
Average price of Saddles
Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Saddles.
We found 596 in the Saddles category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £91.63, making it below average at £9.89.
It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Saddles. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £424.00, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £2.99.
With 596 products available we worked out that 592 cost more than Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve and 3 were cheaper.
Cost of Brooks England products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 41 products from Brooks England, of which 20 were in the Saddles category.
For now though we’re looking at Brooks England branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £77.70 making this product below average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Brooks England product we found was £9.89 and the highest price we could find from them was £165.00.
Of the 41 from Brooks England, 40 were more expensive than Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve and 0 were cheaper.
How much are Brooks England Saddles?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Brooks England products that are listed in the Saddles category.
The average price of the 20 products that match this search was £86.75, with the cheapest coming in at £9.89 and highest price was £108.00. With the average being £86.75, Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve comes in below average.
19 products that meet this search were more expensive than Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve and 0 were cheaper.
Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve Reviews
Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.
There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.
1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.
2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.
Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.9 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Saddles category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.4 out of 5.
Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve or another similar product, like Brand-X Comfort Saddle reviews or Brand-X Cruiser Saddle reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Saddles.
Brand
As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Saddles. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Brooks England, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 9.2/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25010931589
- Product ID 2: 539532UK
- Brand: Brooks England
- Model number: BYP781
- RRP: £10.99
- EAN: 831273507817
- Description: Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle PreserveA new saddle should be treated with¬†Brooks Proofide leather dressing to help assist the ‘breaking-in’ process. Proofide keeps the leather supple as it is specially formulated from natural ingredients to condition, preserve and shower proof your saddle.Proofide is the only substance that should be used to care for your Brooks Leather Saddle. Apply a little Proofide to the finished side of the leather, allow it to permeate until dry and then polish off. Proofide should be used several times during the ‘breaking-in’ period and every 3-6 months thereafter. On bicycles not fitted with mudguards, an initial application to the underside of the saddle will be beneficial, this needs not to be polished off. The leather gets its colour during the tanning process and it is possible, therefore, that some colour residues will remain. It is recommended to polish the saddle with a soft cloth before first use. Features: 50ml tub or 30ml tub optionsBuy Brooks England Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Components > Saddles
- Savings percentage from RRP: 10%
- Size: 30ml Tub
- n/a
- 1.1
- Adult
Other options for Saddles
As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Saddles. 596 in fact.
A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Brooks England Proofide Leather Saddle Preserve included,
Brand-X Cut Out Saddle reviews, Brand-X Trail Saddle reviews, or we really liked the look of Selle Italia Iron Flow Saddle reviews as another alternative.