I love the colors, but $350 or €350 for *steel-railed* Brooks saddles in special colors before any tariff or shipping??? Yikes!
On Friday, November 28, 2025 at 5:36:03 AM UTC-8 Roberta wrote: > I found an email in my inbox this morning and the link does take me to the > Brooks England site. Most of these are “specials,” the ones with the > copper rivets in a few styles. Very pretty colors. Available Nov 28, 5pm > GMT, which is 12noon on the east coast. > https://www.brooksengland.com/saddles/unearthed.html?_kx=4ZwgdJ-d5LZRJRy_wuYq5vxWYPElNLqOycWG_9FfAHE.TxwgrB > > > > Unearthed: A Colourful Black Friday Capsule > > > In 2025, we uncovered an assortment of leather saddle tops in our factory > from a variety of manufacturing processes and periods. Rather than see them > go to waste, we made them into a vibrant limited release batch of leather > saddles. The saddle models and colours are defined by the tops we found. > > > > During what proved to be a long-overdue tidy-up of the Brooks England > factory in Smethwick, we uncovered a proper hoard of valuable goods. > > > > > No, not J.B. Brooks’ fabled hidden stash of bullion, something far more > interesting: a cache of leather saddle tops in various colours. These > pieces were – for whatever reason – waylaid on their path through our > finishing process. They remained incomplete, and were forgotten about. > Until now. > > As a colourful alternative to the dreary monochrome of Black Friday, we > turned those leather tops into the saddles they were always destined to be. > > This Unearthed capsule collection is offered in limited numbers, and only > on the models the tops were originally cut for. This leather is exceedingly > rare and unrepeatable. > > No more saddles can be produced than the tops that were found. Exclusivity > not by design, but by discovery. > > *Available 28th November from 5pm GMT* > > > -- 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/7efc500b-e0ba-4a8e-be27-6c9b6a12905dn%40googlegroups.com.
