Re: [CR] Anyone buy a Brooks B18?

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:27:40 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Anyone buy a Brooks B18?
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At 02:56 PM 11/21/06 -0800, Peter Jourdain wrote:
>The B-18 was fitted to earlier Claud mixtes and
>to many other top-flight British vintage ladies
>lightweights from the Turn-of-the-Century through the
>late '30s or so, when I believe it was discontinued
>because of ladies starting to wear shorts and short
>"skorts" and not needing to the downturned "hawk nose"
>of the B-18 to prevent their long skirts from
>catching.

No such problem here, but she still has a B-18. :)

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John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada