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Taking a Power Tool To My Brooks Saddle

Taking a Power Tool To My Brooks Saddle

The Brooks B17 I have on one of my bikes has now done a few thousand miles, and when comparing with a new saddle on Algernond’s bike last weekend, I noticed that it was starting to spread a little. I also looked at yet another B17 on someone else’s bike, and noticed the lacing on...
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Riding Naked - Hope the Weather Holds

Riding Naked - Hope the Weather Holds

I hope it does, and that all those people in various locations around the country who’re going to be getting nekkid & riding bikes to protest against oil dependancy & car culture remember to apply sunblock. As a fair-skinned person, I can assure you that this really is necessary. In the meantime, here’s an advertorial...
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Leather Straps - Ideal For Chaps

Leather Straps - Ideal For Chaps

Great day’s riding today, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the weather. It rained hard a few times during the day, but not while I was out in the elements. But, miracle of miracles, I had a tailwind both on the way to work and on the way home! How often does that happen?...
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Brooks Saddles: Made With Child Labour!

Brooks Saddles: Made With Child Labour!

Remember the problem with the saddle on my Pashley? One of the rear coil springs on it’s Brooks B33 Saddle had broken, and the people at Brooks offered to either repair the saddle for me, or send me a new set of springs so I could do it myself . . . Well today,...
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