{"id":130851,"date":"2022-02-05T14:17:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T05:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/?post_type=review-global&p=130851"},"modified":"2022-02-05T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T05:17:16","slug":"i-often-dont-do-this","status":"publish","type":"review-global","link":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/review-global\/i-often-dont-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I often don’t do this…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a bike mechanic, we repair and build bikes, but we also take care of the inventory.<\/p>\n

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The other day, I realized that we had some Brooks saddles restocked, but we were out of the maintenance oil.<\/p>\n

Then I remembered…<\/p>\n

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We had plenty of stocks for the Gilles Berthoud saddle wax. I wonder if I can use it on Brooks saddles…they’re both leather so it should work right?<\/p>\n

Let’s try it out.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t sure how to do this, since I hardy sit on leather saddles, and if I did, I never put my mind into taking care of it…<\/p>\n

\"\"So, here we are with both Brooks wax and\u00a0Gilles Berthoud saddle wax. Gonna use the Berthoud wax today.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the brooks has a white-ish color while the Berthoud has a yellow-ish honey like color.<\/p>\n

The Brooks wax smells like soap, and the Berthoud wax smells sweet, smells like it would be rather tasty. (DON’T EAT IT)<\/p>\n

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Both wax has a texture like Vaseline. Soft and melts by body temperature.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u3002And here we are with Max’s completely worn out B17 flyer.<\/p>\n

I know that I can’t bring it back to the original look, but as a bike mechanic I had to at least try.<\/p>\n

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Lemme just start smearing the wax…<\/p>\n

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Be sure not to over smear the wax. The leather might get too soft if you apply too much wax.<\/p>\n

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Hmm, at least it got some moisture back. I think?<\/p>\n

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I also wanted to use this today.<\/p>\n

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I honestly don’t know the correct way to use it but I will try something.<\/p>\n

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I wiped and wiped and wiped..<\/p>\n

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Meh, I guess the saddle got 2% of the shine back.<\/p>\n

It is way better than how it looked at first. However, it will never get the shininess back.<\/p>\n

And now I think the saddle gained about 3% of rain resistance. If the saddle was still in good shape, it would have probably wen’t up to 70%.<\/p>\n

I will have Max to report some updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":130749,"template":"","better_featured_image":{"id":130749,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1280,"height":960,"file":"2022\/01\/D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72.jpeg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72-640x480.jpeg","width":640,"height":480,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":58992,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72-640x480.jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72-900x675.jpeg","width":900,"height":675,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":101402,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72-900x675.jpeg"},"large":{"file":"D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72-1048x786.jpeg","width":1048,"height":786,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":129865,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72-1048x786.jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72-800x600.jpeg","width":800,"height":600,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":83179,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72-800x600.jpeg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]},"filesize":416136},"post":130738,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/D9570E5D-B8E2-47E4-AD7C-0D3174C6AA72.jpeg"},"acf":{"not_to_displayed_on_top":null,"ctm-post-priority":null},"post-meta-fields":{"_edit_lock":["1644038807:48"],"_edit_last":["48"],"_my_meta_value_key":["[{\"pid\":32294,\"name\":\"*GILLES BERTHOUD* leather conditioner\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/gilles-berthoud-leather-conditioner.html\",\"src\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/58380b5adbf00c5b2741afb4fc1b2f76\/1\/l\/1leather-conditioner-50ml.jpg\"},{\"pid\":32293,\"name\":\"*GILLES BERTHOUD* wax for leather saddle\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/gilles-berthoud-wax-for-leather-saddle.html\",\"src\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/58380b5adbf00c5b2741afb4fc1b2f76\/1\/w\/1wax-for-leather-saddle-60ml.jpg\"}]"],"_thumbnail_id":["130749"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review-global\/130851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review-global"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review-global"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}