Re: [CR]Brooks Proofide

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Chater-Lea)

From: <RALEIGH531@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 05:42:07 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Brooks Proofide
To: Gjvinbikes@aol.com, internet-bob@bikelist.org, touring@phred.org, tandem@hobbes.ucsd.edu, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 2/3/01 12:10:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, Gjvinbikes@aol.com writes:
> OK, but then why do they make and sell two completely different products as
> Proofhide ? The red stuff is very different from the yellow, being much
> slicker and pliable at lower temperatures. I wonder if the red Proofhide is
> for black finished saddles and the yellow is for honey-brown finish saddles ?
>
> That I don't have an answer to. I've never seen them for sale anywhere together, and assumed it was a change they had made.

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa