You should Talk to Rudi Mayer (RHM on bikeforums.net). He recovers leather saddles of all types and does a fine job at it. Here is a link to some of his stuff:
http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vintage-sales/995933-rhm-90-early-italia-saddle-fake-130-a.html On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 1:05:35 PM UTC-5, David Banzer wrote: > > Hi John, > Are the brass bolts not working for you or are they uncomfortable? If not, > and it's purely to use Brooks' techniques, I'd just keep the brass bolts in > place. If you're experimenting with leather as well and the leather you've > selected doesn't last as long as you'd like, it'd be easy to swap out . > Do you have any photos of the process of rebuilding the saddle? I'd be > very interested in seeing (or hearing if you don't have photos) how you > went about doing this. > David > Chicago > > On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 11:14:53 AM UTC-6, john elliott wrote: >> >> Has anyone on this list ever replaced the leather on a brooks saddle. >> I'm riding on a 90 percent finished recovered saddle. I haven't finished >> the final trim and it's installed with brass bolts and nuts instead of >> rivets. It turned out better than expected in terms of comfort. I haven't >> finished it because I cannot live with my other seat for even a few days. >> >> I'm about to put in the rivets, but I'm not sure what to use for the back >> of the rivets to give them the right shape. Maybe another hammer... >> >> any thoughts would be appreciated. >> >> >> PS: Anyone have a brooks with trashed leather they want to donate? >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
