Needs fixing and don't know the model, but this is now mine, and this is a great day! Any ideas?
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I wish I could see the pictures as, at 1.7Kg, I'm imagining something like the saddle from an old Raleigh Chopper 🙂
What needs fixing?
His gooch when it's bleeding and sore 😆
Is it off a Massey Ferguson?
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In a world of Niche, there is a Brookes Saddles facebook page.....
I'm imagining something like the saddle from an old Raleigh Chopper
Imagine something from a 1930s motorcycle 🙂
what needs fixing
The central frame (that big V shape directly under the leather) is loose at the front and has a tab you can just see that is freely rotating, I imagine it has to be located in a (now empty) square hole in the nose above the tension screw. It's not quite like more modern designs so am currently at a loss.
How much travel has it got? 😆
About 2 inches of quality travel. Massey Ferguson 😆 the leather is super-thick, but yeah even so, dunno what my 'gooch' is, but daresay it wouldn't survive an explosive impact with all that metal flying about. 😯
wwaswas - Member
Is it off a Massey Ferguson?
That's ^^^ not a Massey Ferguson 😉
Used to have one of those on a 28" sit up and beg, old policemans bike. Very comfy. Something like this:
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[i]That's ^^^ not a Massey Ferguson[/i]
I've kind of lost touch, tbh.
I'm very much an extractor fan now.
Gooch=Twernfer....... 😆
Looks like a B190.
Don't think b190 is a triple-rail. Also this doesn't have top springs at the rear, just steel posts. It's a mystery. And what is with 'made in India'? Thought Brooks made in Brum? Niche indeed.
That's why I said looks like. 🙂
The India bit also has my interest.
How progressive is it?
Can you get it in Enduro colour ways?
I'd defy any dropper post to bring that effin thing back up again. 😀
Used to have one of those on a 28" sit up and beg, old policemans bike. Very comfy. Something like this:
Love old police bikes. had a 1936 one, with oil bath chainguard, etc. Someone tea-leafed it! didnt think it was worth nicking but was gutted.
Ok this is such curio that it appears the only other picture of a saddle like this on the entire interwebs happens to be an old picture of my exact saddle! I compared the label at the back and all the marks and dinks are identical.
What I've learned:
Brooks was absorbed (via Raleigh) into Tube Investments (TI) in 1960
TI Cycles of India brands:
BSA Cycles
Hercules Cycles
Philips Cycles
Track & Trail Cycles
Montra Cycles
Think my model was called the 'Hercules' and was also named 'The Supreme'. It is certainly the beefiest saddle I've ever seen. Now how to fix it...
This is a magnificent object.
🙂
It'd fit on an old school BMX diameter post nicely, you're gonna have to shim it for 27.2+
Ask Brooks what they think?
Malvern Rider - Member
...Now how to fix it...
Have you tried Brooks?
looks laterally stiff yet vertically compliant.
But will it make the trails come alive?
Have you tried Brooks?
Yep, was my first port of call, filled in the form and sent the pics. Last time I had a problem (caused by self and a stupid spanner, I must be honest) with one of their saddles they were amazing and had it fixed and returned good as new in no time at all. But this being an old curio may take some time to get a response. Fingers crossed as I'm angsty as all hell to get my buttox 'held aloft by the hands of angels' (as one recent review claims, I kid you not)
Malvern Rider - Member
...Fingers crossed as I'm angsty as all hell to get my buttox 'held aloft by the hands of angels' ...
You would have been a very popular choir boy...
🙂
I saw this on the Fat Bikes FB page and thought of this thread;
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no one seems sure what the coil shock in the frame is for.
You would have been a very popular choir boy...
Castrato!
no one seems sure what the coil shock in the frame is for.
Seatstays are obv designed to break off at the seattube on aggressive descents 😯
*Edit doubletake: Wt* is that seat-clamp/rear changer thing?
That's a seatpost mounted shifter - obviously!
Note lack of cables elsewhere.
I think the shock is to make people go 'Oh wow, a FS fatbike! Oh.. hang on..?'
Seatstays are obv designed to break off at the seattube on aggressive descents*Edit doubletake: Wt* is that seat-clamp/rear changer thing?
I've not actually done a real-life lol at a bike for ages (maybe the paperclip?), but that's brilliant.
Here it is in all it's glory;
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That made the Baby Jesus cry & wiped out the dinosaurs. I wonder it the front tyre has rubbed through the lefty yet or it they've corrected that by a simple 4" dish on the front wheel?
Liking that saddle though - how much travel does it have - more than most 90's dh bikes i imagine?