I've never even seen the red stuff.
John Dunn in Napa Valley
<tandem@hobbes.ucsd.edu>; <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 2:42 AM Subject: Re: [CR]Brooks Proofide
> 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