BROOKS CAMBIUM C17 SPECIAL SADDLE (NATURAL)

Featuring premium details, the Cambium C17 Special is a perfect saddle for bikepacking, gravel riding, road cycling and cycle touring ready for all rides, all road and all weathers.

The Cambium C17 is a comfortable saddle for bikepacking, commuting, gravel and cycle touring thanks to its durable, vulcanised-rubber top offering flexible performance and all-day weather protection. Suitable for the angled riding position, the C17 will reward you with increased performance on long journeys, flexing for natural comfort. The best bicycle seat for everything from racing to casual adventure, the C17 requires no break-in period and is always ready to ride in any weather and on all roads.

Riding position
Angled riding position

Naturally Flexible Rubber
Our Cambium saddles are made from flexible natural rubber, harvested from trees

All-surface absorption
Designed to absorb shocks and smooth out the ride

Continuously comfortable
Provides natural comfort for the duration of the ride in all conditions, over all terrain, performing consistently over time and through constant use

Moves with you
Rubber is a natural substance that reacts to and follows the rider's movements

Unique Premium details
Special components, designs, materials and manufacturing techniques add unique character and timeless distinction.

Features
- Vulcanised Natural Rubber Saddle Top
- Organic Cotton top
- Tubular Steel Rails
- Nose-piece and Saddle Plate in aluminium

Ideal for
- Commuting in the city
- Road cycling
- Travelling the globe
- Gravel & Bikepacking
- All weather conditions

Materials

- Vulcanised Natural Rubber and cotton Top

- Steel rail with black powder coating

- Length: 283 mm
- Width: 162 mm
- Height: 52 mm
- Weight: +- 434 g


About Brooks
In 1865 John Boultbee Brooks set out from his place of birth, Hinckley in Leicestershire, with little more to his name than ambition and £20 in his pocket. He made his way to Birmingham, where just one year later he established a business under his own name, producing harness and sundry leather goods for horses. Twelve years later, after the unfortunate death of his own horse, JB Brooks borrowed a bicycle for his commute to work. He was excited by the possibilities of this ingenious new mode of transportation, but pained to be seated upon its hard wooden saddle, and vowed to do something about it.

By the Autumn of 1882 he had filed the first of many patents for a leather bicycle saddle. The company expanded rapidly after the success of these revolutionary designs, producing many other new products for cycling, including outerwear and robust luggage. And on the way, becoming a byword in quality handcrafted goods. Brooks England Ltd. is one of the few survivors of the once-glorious British bicycle industry.

In 2002 the company was acquired by Selle Royal S.p.A., an international cycling group headquartered in Italy, and has since been under new management whilst maintaining its production facilities in England.

Rather than follow the route of other former British manufacturers, Brooks instead has flourished, doubling its workforce and raising its annual turnover. Our factory in Smethwick, only a few miles removed from JB Brooks’ original premises, houses our skilled workforce who continue to use the same traditional machinery, some of which itself dates as far back as the 1940s and 1950s.