Dave & Others Back in around 2000, the mad cow event was going thru England resulting in much younger cows coming to market and their hides being thinner (younger = thinner hides). I do remember a reference to someone in Brooks being concerned the hide thickness was approaching their minimum values, due to the younger cattle. It may have been the same gentleman Dave communicated with.
I bought a red B17 from Wallingford around the time. Apparently Brooks made a run of red B-17s for a Dawes project and there was a large surplus, and Bill Lane passed on the discount. Still have it, but it seems to need tensioning more often than one I had from an earlier period, probably due to a slightly thinner hide from the 'mad cows'. Funny, Bill is retired, but I still have the saddle. John Hawrylak Woodstown NJ On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 12:01:27 PM UTC-4, Rivendell GM Dave wrote: > I asked Brooks about thicknesses. > > Steven Green, factory manager who has been with Brooks for almost 40 years > responded: > > > > > > *There is absolutely no truth in this at all! We have always specified, to > my knowledge, 5.5mm to 6 mm as the target thickness. We do occasionally > receive leather outside of these parameters and we allow a minimum of 4.8 > mm and a maximum 6.5 mm Unfortunately, cows are such inconsiderate beasts > and they won’t come to an agreement with Brooks to always give us exactly > 5.5 mm!* > > > > > > On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 3:57:14 AM UTC-7, Lester Lammers wrote: >> >> Is your B17 rather new? Brooks was bought out and the new owners started >> using thinner leather that had issues. There are posts about this on other >> forums. I'm not sure if they have changed. >> >> On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 9:31:43 PM UTC-4, John Hawrylak wrote: >>> >>> I use a B17, and when I climb or pedal hard (paceline), I tend to move >>> back on the B17 and feel the rivets. What does this indicates >>> >>> My bars are at saddle height my knee is about 10mm below the pedal >>> spindle. The saddle height is 9.5 to 10 cm less than PBH. >>> >>> John Hawrylak >>> Woodstown NJ >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
