At 03:38 PM 11/19/2008, Tony Colegrave wrote:
> > 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, with 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 for 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.
Tony, My friend's memory isn't that great and he was associated with Island Cycle Supply for about 40 years, so he could have been off by a decade.
Mark Stonich;
BikeSmith Design & Fabrication
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