Alpe d'huez Team Pro

We have the new Alpe d’Huez Team Pro in stock. This is a “seasonal” edition saddle with a topographical map of the famous Tour de France climb imprinted in the leather.

This special saddle comes in three colors: black, honey, and antique brown. (but they’re calling it ‘brown’ now). This is the first Team Pro in the brown color in quite a while. The price is the same $187 that we charge for a comparable regular-production Team Pro.

The art is by “Brooklyn-based artist, wallpaper designer and bike enthusiast Dan Funderburgh.” You can learn more about Mr. Funderburgh, and this project, here and here. He has a Flickr Photostream, too.

This change came about because Brooks has changed their packaging a little and they include a spanner with all saddles that use a spanner for tension adjustment.

(The spanner (wrench) is used to adjust the tension on Brooks saddles. It is a Whitworth nut and there are no inch or metric wrenches that work. Needle nose pliers can be used with no ill effect.)

When a manufacturer changes something usually the change does not happen all at once. In this case we are still getting saddles in ‘08 boxes along with a few of the new ‘09 presentation. The saddles are exactly the same. There is no advantage to insisting on a new box.

There isn’t any way to automate getting the right New Saddle Special matched up with the saddle you are buying. If you are buying a saddle and want to get the special deal on the care kit with a saddle that doesn’t include a wrench then call us up and we will make sure you get the correct special deal.