I don't understand the aversion to fashion in the bike industry, or in any industry for that matter. It is really hard to make a living selling bikes or bike parts. I rode a Brooks leather saddle on the trip from Portland to Panama. It worked, but I never wanted to use a leather saddle again. So I think of them as a fashion item in any case.
Jim Merz Big Sur CA
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:21 AM, paccoastcycles <
paccoastcycles@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Mark Lawrence says that he's growing tired of the "new Brooks". I say this:
> Dude, it's owned by Italians! What can you expect?
>
> Chuck Hoefer
> Pacific Coast Cycles
> Oceanside, Ca.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Taylor" <ajft1942@yahoo.com>
> To: "Jon Spangler" <jonswriter@att.net>; "Dale Brown" <
> classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 6:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [CR] Brooks introduces the world's most fashionable rain
> cape(KOF candidate)
>
>
> This is a development of the standard rain cape used before the days of
>> rain
>> jackets and pants. It's nice that a hood has been added, but, I suspect it
>> would
>> not be compatible with a helmet. The old ones had thumb loops inside to
>> hold the
>> cape in place over the handlebars. The cape would be carried rolled up
>> behind
>> the saddle, usually with the spare tub in the middle.
>>
>> They clain that your lower parts will not get wet. Your own forward motion
>> is
>> enough for your pants to get wet. We always used "leggings" that came up
>> mid
>> thigh and attached to your belt. The whole ensemble, made of yellow
>> oil-skin
>> fabric guaranteed one would become nice and sweaty!
>>
>> Tony Taylor
>> Manchester, NH
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Jon Spangler <jonswriter@att.net>
>> To: Dale Brown <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>> Sent: Tue, January 11, 2011 1:32:05 AM
>> Subject: [CR] Brooks introduces the world's most fashionable rain cape
>> (KOF
>> candidate)
>>
>> Listers,
>>
>> As one who used Burley Bev's rain capes and half-a-gaitors extensively in
>> Eugene, OR, years ago (pre-Gore-tex
>> and well within the CR timeline) this new/old fashion entry took me back a
>> ways....
>>
>> The latest rain cape from Brooks is absolutely the most fashion-forwad
>> cyclist's rain cape that I have ever seen.
>> Very retro, too, and definitely a KOF-qualifier as such with the waxed
>> cotton
>> and tweed trim.
>>
>> I'm sure the price will be suitably astronomical, too, but many of our
>> "tweedier" riders may still go for it....
>>
>>
>> http://blog.brooksengland.com/
>>
>> Nostalgically yours from Alameda, CA USA,
>>
>> Jon Spangler
>> who is hurting, indeed, over the University of Oregon's loss tonight in
>> the
>> absolutely non-KOF
>>
>> BCS despite the fact that the BCS itself is heretical....
>>
>> Jon Spangler
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