Brooks saddle
Posted by: Nigel 66 on 19 August 2011
To my horror my previous saddle, a selle italia flite was like sitting on a razor, so I have just brought a Brooks B17. Despite some reviews saying that they took alot of breaking in, I've been for a quick ride tonight and after taking some time to adjust it properly, I'm happy to report that it's much better than I was hoping for out of the box. Hopefully, like Naim it will also just keep on getting better too.
Anyway, just thought that I'd post this whilst listening to my new Wilco Lps. Nice!
Dear Mark,
I have two of them! The one on the Ambrosio has a way to go before it is run in. The brown one on the Carlton was much less hard from the start.
My girlfriend from my adolescence had a side-saddle that she occasionally would put on a thorough-bred for dressage. Very nice it looked with her in black with a bowler on!
ATB from George
Dressage - that's where crowds watch breathlessly as a horse with a rich person sitting on it walks slowly around on sand isn't it?
Dear Mark,
I have two of them! The one on the Ambrosio has a way to go before it is run in. The brown one on the Carlton was much less hard from the start.
My girlfriend from my adolescence had a side-saddle that she occasionally would put on a thorough-bred for dressage. Very nice it looked with her in black with a bowler on!
ATB from George
Dressage - that's where crowds watch breathlessly as a horse with someone sitting on it walks slowly around on sand isn't it?
If it were bikes instead of horses, might you get into it more? Entering the arena side-saddle on a beautifully burnished Brooks, executing the perfect track stand at the red light followed by a toss of the mane and some light fettling of the rear derailleur.
C.
Dear Mark,
I have two of them! The one on the Ambrosio has a way to go before it is run in. The brown one on the Carlton was much less hard from the start.
My girlfriend from my adolescence had a side-saddle that she occasionally would put on a thorough-bred for dressage. Very nice it looked with her in black with a bowler on!
ATB from George
Dressage - that's where crowds watch breathlessly as a horse with someone sitting on it walks slowly around on sand isn't it?
If it were bikes instead of horses, might you get into it more? Entering the arena side-saddle on a beautifully burnished Brooks, executing the perfect track stand at the red light followed by a toss of the mane and some light fettling of the rear derailleur.
Sounds just beautiful. But one would have no rear derailleur, of course. The purity of the sport could only be preserved by using steel-framed fixies, skinny jeans with one leg rolled up, vintage shirts, classic hats, ironic facial hair and a "courier" bag slung gracefully over one's shoulder. True artistic creativity would be expressed in the selection of tattoos and the colour co-ordination of one's rims and chain.
Don't be horrible about Dressage!
Even I have ridden in a Dressage competition!
ATB from George
Don't be horrible about Dressage!
Even I have ridden in a Dressage competition!
ATB from George
Yeah but I just freaking hate horses. Like people hate rats and spiders.
Well horses are lovely noble creatures, though Oscar Wilde considered them dangerous at both ends, and uncomfortable in the middle. Rats, on the other hand, are disease ridden pests for example.
Personally I rather like spiders, though we don't have any dangerous ones in the UK, unless they get on on bananas or whatever. These don't survive our climate long!
ATB from George
Well horses are lovely noble creatures, though Oscar Wilde considered them dangerous at both ends,and uncomfortable in the middle Rats, on the other hand, are disease ridden pests for example.
ATB from George
In what sense "noble"? I don't get it. They might be "lovely" to some, but surely this is in the eye of the beholder. As for disease....
The noble beast of burden, who has worked so hard and so willingly for mankind, The horse.
As for humans catching diseases from animals, there are many diseases that can be transmitted to humans and are mainly carried by the most mild of domesticated animals, from chickens and pigs, and cats and dogs. Horses are even safer in this sense than cattle.
ATB from George
....beast of burden, who has worked.........so willingly for mankind, The horse......
ATB from George
Have you asked a horse?
Dear Winki,
I do speak horsish!
Some say I am mad-ish, and some say mas-as-a-fish!
ATB from George
Are you allowed to do that in a public place ??
Only if the rear derailleur has an indexed shifter.
Fettling a rear friction shifter in a public place can land you in the Magistrates Court! Lubricating it in public is particularly serious ...
ATB from George
Couple of applications of Proofhide a few weeks apart. Tightened nut with special spanner. It's never been better :-)
Chris