[CR]Rare Brooks and decals

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From: "David Blight" <davidblight@rya-online.net>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:45:53 +0100
Subject: [CR]Rare Brooks and decals

Saddle for sale. As the increasing horror over the Brooks price scandal continues, I have decided to offer one of the rarest saddles I know as a pre-ebay offering to all CR subscribers.The very rare Brooks B18. This remarkeable piece of velocipedal nostalgia was hand sculpted by North Country dwarves from the finest British polymers available in the early Thatcherite period. The model I'm selling is the even rarer than usual 'custom' model with the widened screwdriver slot in end of the adjuster bolt and is in the much sought after shade of very, very dark black. The winged Brooks logo has been subject to extensive road rash (which in the business we refer to as the patina of age) but there is no problem with rivets pulling out as the top has been cunningly moulded onto the rails - and of course there is no awful alloy cantleplate to break. Sold with a 26.7 (was 27.2 until it got stuck in a frame) alloy seatpin. A fine addition to any budget1980s bike. Anyone restoring a bike with a moulded-on chainguard and a worn-out pair of Weinemanns will be in seventh heaven with this item! Tenderised buttocks from a Unicanitor? The rough moulded surface on this one will cause so much friction it will fry your ass! Buy now for 25 cents (Sorry, don't I mean 2000 yen?) This will make it worth getting my hands dirty when retrieving it from the bin. The trouble is that postage will cost you 15 dollars. No jpegs available. Just shut your eyes and think nostalgically of dear old England.

Decals I'm sure that most of you will already know this, but decals (we call them transfers over here, matey) for most British bikes and a few others are available from Nick Tythecott at H. Lloyd Cycles in Penrith England. He now has a website: http://www.lloydcycles.co.uk which lists about 500 designs from A.J. Hodge to Whitcomb and everything inbetween. He claims to have every Claud Butler transfer that ever existed and most Hetchins.The catalogue is a little wide to print, but there are details to send for a printed version which includes pictures.

PS. Dale, are you really going to let the word ass go out on CR?