Congratulations. You are now a select member of "The Damn Chrome Rails On My Brooks Broke Club". It's exclusive but not that uncommon especially before 2000 or so. I've broken two B17's. All before 2000. There was a while that you couldn't get chromed rails. Don't know if you can now. Doug is probably right...composition or lack of care in chroming. Riv replaced the first one that broke because there was a flurry of breakages. They hemmed and hawed on the second so I blew them off. Check out the date on your saddle. '79. Old Chrome. The leather is pretty dry too. My dad used to tell me I was so tight I could sit on a dime and tell you whether it was heads or tails, but in this case, even I would dump it.
Craig in Tucson On Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 8:45:37 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > I found the source of the annoying squeak I've been hearing the last few > weeks! > > This is a Brooks B-72 that I've had on my Hunqapillar for the last 4 > years. I got it used, but it seemed fine. I ride a fair amount of trails, > but nothing super gnarly. I weigh 175 lbs and try to "ride light" and > stand my way through the bumpiest stuff. > > An early-summer camping trip that included trail riding ended with the > last 5 or so miles being pretty squeaky, but I didn't notice anything else > amiss, no hard impacts or anything like that. I've done short rides since > then, some squeakier, some less so. I finally took a look last night and > saw a broken frame rail. Then I took the saddle off the bike and one > broken frame rail was suddenly revealed to be three! The one I initially > saw was outside the seat sandwich, the other two were hidden inside the > sandwich. > > [image: PXL_20250723_105242557.jpg] > > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/87d5c09a-4c52-4773-8131-6e2d6fef33b4n%40googlegroups.com.
