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Sorted! I hope. Although it's still a bit on the squiff. Maybe it'll straighten itself up with a bit of use. Won't know until I've re-built my bike! Picking up my re-sprayed frame later today!

I think riding 250 miles on it ( it went in the middle of a mini-tour up NCN1 and I put up with it rather than try and buy another saddle en-route ) probably didn't help and exacerbated the twist and probably deformed the leather more than if I'd stopped using it immediately.

Spa cycles nosebolt should fit ....

Looks better than the fiddly Brooks spanner option.

Seems like Condor sell them and are out of stock as well with some opportunist ebayer selling them for £10 + postage!!

My old B17 has "Made in England" facing backwards...

You'd think Brooks would buy a zillion of these and another zillion from the same supplier when they ran out and that they'd all have the M.I.E stamp facing the same way. That and the black undersides of the rivets are what made me wonder if I had a fake.

Unfortunately, despite only having done a couple of thousand miles on it, it's OOW.

Leather appears to be in good nick though.

How hard is that shackle repair? I've seen mentions of Brooks using hydraulic gizmos due to the tensions involved....

Edit - after watching a few youtube videos it doesn't seem too difficult! Will order a Tension shackle - thanks for the link @brucey


another edit..... Interestingly, this is the tension shackle in question. Obvious now why the saddle nose twists. Was easy 'ish to get out. Wonder how hard it'll be to re-install.

The cure is to back the tension bolt off completely, and then to pry the tension bolt free of the nosepiece. Once this is done, the nosepiece can be 'squeezed' to the correct width, so that it will once again sit on the shackle shoulders snugly. This should then cure it. Whilst the shackle is out, you can file the corners on the shoulders a bit sharper if you like, which might help too.

Thanks for all the help/suggestions I might give the above a go ( although the shoulder on the dropped side of the shackle doesn't look right - like it's rounded off ) and if all else fails, I'll get Brooks to repair it.

Hi peeps,

has anyone come across fake Brooks B17s?


I ask because I'm wondering if I have a fake....

This saddle has a twisted nose piece. Looks like the stepped out bits that normally stop the nose from twisting aren't properly formed on one side allowing the twist. Wouldn't have though that it would have passed QC. The saddle is very uncomfortable and un-rideable due to the twist so I'm thinking of getting Brooks to repair it but wonder if they will if they think I have a fake. It's also more than two years old so probably not warrantied any more.






There's also a couple of differenced between it and my other B17.

On my non-twisted one, the underside of the copper rivets are distinctly copper and the "Made in England" stamp faces towards the rear of the saddle.

The the rivets on the underside of saddle with the twisted nose piece look black and possibly not copper and the "Made in England" stamp faces in the other direction.






Thoughts?


thanks



Steve

I posted this as a reply to: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=65033 howver, thought it might be useful as a new topic!

This site - http://bikeshd.co.uk/ - lists all bikes for sale in London on ebay and gumtree.


Steve

If you go to http://bikeshd.co.uk/ this lists all bikes for sale in London on both Ebay and Gumtree!

Thieving scumbags from our Trimetals bike store - Bolt-croppered through the store to get to the bikes.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lapsednun/ ... 693265208/