Re: [CR] Brooks Team Pro Titanium

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 0:25:46 -0500
From: <rdayton@carolina.rr.com>
To: James Valiensi <valiensi@mac.com>, donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
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Subject: Re: [CR] Brooks Team Pro Titanium


Ti railed Swallow and Ti railed Swift. A good deal of Brevets at 200K - 400K. A 1000K on the Swallow. A few pot holes etc when dark and I'm tired. No problems what so ever.

Rob Dayton
Charlotte,NC
USA


---- James Valiensi wrote:


> Don,

\r?\n> I have 3 B-17 with titanium rails. No problems over the past 7-8 years.

\r?\n> James Valiensi, PE

\r?\n> Northridge, CA

\r?\n> H818.775.1847 M.818.585.1796

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> On Feb 4, 2011, at 4:38 PM, donald gillies wrote:

\r?\n>

\r?\n> > I've ordered a Brooks Team Pro Titanium, but it's been delayed by such

\r?\n> > a long time (70 days) that I contacted the factory and they said that

\r?\n> > in late November their rails-forming machinery broke, leading to a big

\r?\n> > backlog in Brooks Saddles production. Just to compound things, their

\r?\n> > Titanium Supplier was late delivering the titanium wire used to make

\r?\n> > the saddles, too.

\r?\n> >

\r?\n> > So yes, you may have a hard time finding exaclty the right saddle and

\r?\n> > color from Brooks right now. I've been waiting patiently with my

\r?\n> > "Black Friday" price on the saddle.

\r?\n> >

\r?\n> > Has anyone had problems with failures in Brooks Ti Saddles? If yes,

\r?\n> > would you advise me to cancel the order and get 2x saddles with steel

\r?\n> > rails? This is for a very special, green bike (some of you know what

\r?\n> > I'm talking about ..)

\r?\n> >

\r?\n> > - Don Gillies

\r?\n> > San Diego, CA, USA