>>1485361Asymmetry could be caused by poor leather, but more likely because you unconsciously weight one side more than the other. As for angling up, yeah, with any Brooks saddle you need the nose pointing up, sometimes to the point where it looks like it destroys your cock, like my old Swallow, which looked particularly nasty after I broke the bolt in a crash. Replaced it with a Shimano Pro Stealth.
>>1485809Surface is like sandpaper and they're overall awful from my short experience with testing one out.
>>1485767The problem isn't that Brooks declined, it's that sourcing really high quality leather is much more difficult and expensive these days for a variety of reasons. Berthoud's leather is better than Brooks, and their overall design is better, but the saddles are also quite a bit more expensive.
