We just received a few of our out-of-stock saddles

Champion Flyer, black
Champion Flyer Special, honey
B.72, antique brown
B.135, honey

NO Care Kits or Proofide

The Brooks importer expects their next shipment in one month.

We have raised the saddle prices today to reflect our higher cost.

Tags: Brooks saddles, stock

Zack White is a well stocked leather workers store. You can find leather, tools, and fittings (including rivets)

Caswell will show you a lot about polishing metal.

McMaster-Carr carries a wide variety of mechanical components.

Tags: leather, Resources

We get the occasional mail or call from someone who wants to get their saddle repaired. We sell replacement parts for Brooks saddles but we don’t work on them. The only reference I have is Tony Colegrave, in England. It would be nice to have a resource in America.

Does anyone in the US do this kind of work? Would any of you like to do this type of work. You could perform a service to the Brooks community and make a little money.

Tony Colegrave – tony_colegrave@hotmail.com

Tags: opportunity, repair

It’s in a bike factory. .

FOUND – Part One

In 1954 Britain’s “Cycling Weekly” magazine asked their readers what they thought the bicycle would look like in the year 2000. We posted part two of this article about a year ago and many of you found it pretty interesting. Now we have the missing part one, thanks to Tony Colegrave.

Some of the predictors had a pretty accurate crystal ball; “Mass produced frames will be electrically welded but craftsman-specialists will still build bicycles. . . .by hand, to the requirements of the conniseur.” Some missed the mark pretty wide; Bicycles “will be built on the stretched-skin aircraft principal. . .opening as a spectacle case does”

Here are links to PDFs of both parts of this old article:

PDF Part 1 -Bike of Year 2000 – from March 18, 1954
PDF Part 2 -Bike of Year 2000 – from March 25, 1954

Tags: history