Interesting...that happened to me with the B17 Special with the big copper rivets and chromed rails using a 27.0 Chorus seatpost on my X0-1 a number of years ago. A bit disconcerting, to put it mildly. I replaced that saddle (might still have it kicking around) with a black standard ladies model (which I sold to a list member because I didn't care for the width, so replaced with a brown standard men's width). In addition , using an excess of caution and not incidentally, based on aesthetics, I swapped out the old Campy SR single-bolt seatposts on my A/R and Road with Nitto's S83 2-bolt seatposts, reasoning that the 2 bolt design might relieve stress and prevent a recurrence. So far, so good even though my reasoning might be less than solid.
On Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 10:21:41 AM UTC-5 Mike Packard wrote: > FWIW I had a chromed b17 rail break a couple years ago. It was slightly > out of warranty and Brooks support only referred me to Firth and Wilson. I > did some googling and found others complaining of similar breaks, some > wondering if the chromed rails were more brittle or something. Kinda > disappointing but I never really loved the fit of the b17 so I didn't > pursue repair or replacement. Anecdotal I know. > > I just got a b68 a couple weeks ago and so far it's great. > > Mike in Austin > > > On Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 2:51:14 PM UTC-5 der_amerikanische_freund > wrote: > >> Hi all, just out of curiosity, has there ever been a Brooks B17 standard >> with silver rails? At present the only B17 standards with silver rails are >> the carved version (known as Imperial) or the Special version with copper >> rails (or copper color like rails...). >> >> I'm sure I've seen photos and a friend of mine swears he has one >> "Non-carved" in silver rails, but they don't seem to exist in the Brooks >> catalogue anymore. >> >> Thanks >> > -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c1e3087f-c767-4062-be49-21f8e0443ff9n%40googlegroups.com.
