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Monday, 3 November

Changing the "New Saddle Special"

The discounted Brooks Care Kit, with a new saddle purchase, is now a discounted small tin of Proofide.

We are starting to get saddles in '09 packaging that includes a spanner with the saddle. See our blog entry for more details.

Thursday, October 30th

U3 Bag in green

ZWEI Bags
available now!

 

Wednesday, October 22nd

Brooks SPECIAL EDITION SALE
2007 Limited Edition Swallow - $673 $395
black, stitched edge, numbered, 999 produced, letter of authenticity
All sales final. Brooks 2 year defect warranty in effect

Maroon B.18 Lady with maroon grips - $240 $178
rare maroon leather with matching Brooks grips - no longer in production
All sales final. Brooks 2 year defect warranty in effect

Tuesday, October 10th

SCHWALBE CLOSE-OUTS
Marathon XR 26x1.75 wire - $32

Thursday, September 25th

Berthoud's New Saddle

Gilles Berthoud has been 18 months developing his vision of an improved leather saddle. The saddle was introduced at Eurobike, in early September '08, and production models should be available at the beginning of 2009. The initial model will come in a men's and women's version and there will be a black model in addition to the "natural" and "cork" versions pictured.

See our blog
for more information.

Tuesday, July 8th

7/24 update: We have the bags and the prices. I am slow to get them on the website. (We are pretty busy right now.) The 'May' saddlebag will cost $201. The 'Retro' frontbag will cost $398. The webpage for the saddlebag is up but you cannot order online. The webpage for the frontbag is up also.

GUU-WATANABE Bags

Here is a picture of our first shipment of Guu-watanabe bags, still in Tokyo. We ordered a handlebar bag x5 and a saddle bag x4. We weren't sure what to get but the handlebar bag is tested in the current Bicycle Quarterly.

(on the GUU website: frontbag retro, saddlebag may)

This is a test-the-waters order. If there is a market I will carry more variety. These are very nice people to work with.

The bags are leaving Tokyo today via (I-hope-more-reliable-than-DHL, see Zwei below) UPS.

Thursday, 24 April

A New Leather Saddle

Gilles Berthoud has been developing his own version of the traditional leather saddle. We have the story of this project in his own words.

Wednesday, 26 March

Nate Saltus' Schwinn Collegiate. Nate says the fenders are original!

This Brooks couch was created by Scarabike - "a bicycle producing company" in Japan. They have a matching stool.

 

 


See the contest summary to find out
what was wrong with the picture.

 

Friday, July 14th

1935 - The Development of Gearing

The mid-30s was a time of development for the multi-speed drivetrain. This week's 'Cycling' PDF features advertisements picturing gearing innovations from Oscar Egg, Villiers, Cyclo, and Sturmey Archer.You can download this 4 page PDF to explore these steps-on-the-way-to-the-modern-drivetrain further.

Bonus: an ad for "Something Really New; automatic quick release hubs" from Campagnolo.

Monday, July 3rd

Bobet Wins Tour de France

An account of the mountain stages and final time trial that ended the1954 fiftieth-anniversary Tour de France was published in the August 5th, 1954 edition of "Cycling" magazine. Louison Bobet won convincingly after a very strong ride."It was literally a fury of speed"
"Bobet was in a mood rampant."

You can download this 5 page article in PDF format.


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