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.

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A guy named Brooks sent us a picture of his new tattoo. Brooks says “it’s from the 1923 catalogue, as found on the Brooks site.”
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The Brooks B.17 Imperial, as presented at Eurobike.

The saddle will come with laces of different colors for individualization and personal expression.

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The Brooks distributor shipped the following saddle models to us yesterday

• B.17 Champion Special, honey
• B.17N antique brown
• B.17S black and honey
• B.67 antique brown

We should have these saddles later next week. We will make them available on the website when we get them. If you would like to order before then give us a call – 888 731 3537

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We have been sweating the Brooks supply around here. If the importer doesn’t get some saddles in soon we will be out of everything Brooks. Now I see on the Raleigh website that they are putting Brooks’ on many of their ’09 bikes. Could that explain the shortage?

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I have seen the Brooks product list for the upcoming year. The much anticipated Imperial is on there – B.17N, B.17S, and B.17, black only. There is also a “Team Pro Tubular Rivets.” I expect this is a more affordable Team Pro made with the machine-set steel rivets of the B.17 Standard, and others, rather than the large copper hand set rivets that we are used to on a Team Pro. The copper-rivet Team Pro will still be available.

As to when we will have the Imperial: It will be introduced at the September trade shows with the goal of having it in the shops by the end of the year. Before Christmas is a slight possibility.

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16 September update: the Brooks folks have told me that the first Imperials will ship at the end of September.

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