andrew Ivimey wrote:...It was with great surprise and delight only a few days ago when I visited the other (semi) uber bike shop in Beds that I saw that Brookes are alive and well and still making wonderful saddles including the fabled B17 Professional. When I was a schoolboy racer I wished for but never got (anything really) a Brookes....
Treat yourself MrI. Your bum deserves it!
I like the 'modern' smart textiles available today, so, stretchy, even fit my 'interesting' form! But Gel saddles and plastic seats, yuck (city man). Sweaty bot bot!
thomas wrote:
Now how exactly did you manage to shear the B67 bolt Dave?!
I was investigating the source of a rattle on my fine Dawes machine after a trek to Herne Bay. I noticed the nose bit of the B67 was loose, aha, I thought (like y'do), attempted to tighten up the slack adjuster-bolt with groovy supplied Books spanner and thwaarrrkkkack , it snapped in half. I think the thread was damaged as it was always a bit stiff (stoppit!) so it was probably a bit fatigued from all that 'extreme stunt manoeuvring' from our last Kent Massiff day out.
Ray P wrote:
I took delivery of a GPS computer today and have just been fiddling getting it all set up. I settled on a Cateye Stealth Evo for now, not the most feature rich one available but I got it for under £50. Does what I need though and you can download data onto maps etc. I'll go for a jaunt to test it tomorrow.
Ray
Enjoy the new toys Ray, downloading your rides onto maps and seeing where you've been is ace fun (IMO, I'm easily impressed!).
For route planning do you know of
http://www.ridewithgps.com ? Its a feeebie (with optional subscription for premium features) that helps you find different routes from the comfort of your own laptop.