> From: mark@bikesmithdesign.com
>
> I mentioned to a friend I was thinking about a Ti railed Brooks for a
> saddle. He said that when he worked for a wholesale outfit, Island
> Cycle back in the '80s, they got several returned Brooks' with broken
> Ti rails.
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AFAIK, Brooks' first venture into tit-framed saddles was in 1993, wi
th the 'Swift' - followed eighteen months or so later with the 'Finesse';
I'm sure that they weren't making titanium frames in the 'eighties - not f
or the U.K. market, at any rate.
For a long time they denied to me that they were making tit-framed B.17s
exclusively(?) for Rivendell, although I'd seen several examples, but
this was some time after the introduction of the 'Swift'. Of course, it's
quite possible that they might have floated a few prototypes onto the U.S.
market in the 'eighties?
Tony Colegrave, Northiam, East Sussex, U.K.