The Lovely Bicycle blog analyzes the Brooks product line and explains the suitability of the different models in “Demystifying the System.”

We were working a little bike shop just outside of Seattle. Every once in a while we would see a guy go by in some kind of pedal-powered creation that was equal parts radical, innovative, and homebrewed. Eventually the guy stopped in, looking for something, and we got to know Joe Kochanowski a little. We were knocked out by Joe’s  fantastic creations. We were impressed with the creativity Joe put into his bikes, Joe’s down-to-earth personality, and his singular focus on developing a state-of-the-art recumbent. Now, twenty years later, we were talking about those days and we wondered if Joe was still working on his bikes. Looks like he is.

Tags: recumbent

This is probably a good jacket. It certainly packs up neat. I was attracted to their marketing photo:

Outlier Jacket

Tags: clothing

Website Bike Review reports that the Vans shoe company is coming out with a special Brooks edition shoe in saddle-matching leather. I don’t know anything else about them, except that they look pretty nice.

(The Swift saddle with some sort of pattern in the leather is new to me too.)

Tags: shoes

More pictures from the Brooks factory have been posted by Maurice, in a story on the Dirt Rag magazine blog. Rivet pounding and saddle buffing are of interest.

Tags: Brooks, factory

Dutch rider W.H. Scholten has posted a pretty comprehensive set of in-depth reviews for leather saddles, mostly Brooks.