Selfish bastard stole my Brooks!

So pissed me, just cycled home 5 miles standing. My cleats have never felt so dug into my feet.

Some fucking wanker decided he felt like my Brooks Swift honey saddle today.

Stolen between 2-5:30pm outside university (LCC) where my bike was locked up. I'm lucky that's all that got taken, but still gutted!

Probs long gone by now, but if anyone sees any activity about a worn honey swift with chrome rails that they feel is dodgy, get in touch with me please.

Wish i'd done that whole chain in an inner job, it was always on the the to-do list! Lesson learnt.

DAMN.

my goodness..that sucks! i had the same experiences too..asshole stole my ENTIRE bike!

Some dizzy woman near us (I won't say where for obvious reasons) locks her pashley princess to the railings through the saddle rails but nothing else. I keep meaning to take a spanner round and nick the rest of her bike, and carry it up the steps to her front door to offer some advice about locks.

dangermouse

Also might be worth stamping your name in any replacment leather saddle. Search for 'skullychops' thread for a few examples of my work. Cost = one pint of cider.

In primary school we had a fund raising fete. My mum made some cakes to sell and there was a car boot sale. Anyway, one stall was selling assorted nick-nacks and there was a little brown ceramic kangaroo about 15cm tall. It had a hole in the back which I think made it a little vase for flowers. I stole it. I still have it some 20 years on. The only other thing I stole was a playboy that I put in a newspaper at the milkbar. It was my first playboy and cost me 50 cents. I dont have that any more. :(

sorry but can't send a link. Sitting on the m6 junk 15 for the last hour. Have you seen that brooks and seatpost f/s on the bay ?

Did you ride up Bishops Gate yesterday afternoon? I watched some guy having a breather outside my work because he had been riding around without a saddle. I'm assuming it had been stolen and he was just trying to get home.

same happened to me a while back, so I know how annoyed you must be. Arseholes.

brooks are easy target, if it look nice and got "brooks" written on it, it worth a pony or more on Brick Lane!

superglue bar bearing and/or chain loop round the frame and saddle FTW.

Yep unfortunately there are many of us on here that have suffered the same fate.

Funny that no fucker looks twice at my Fizik Arione that I temporarily put on my commuter bike when mine was stolen about a year ago...

the Arione does look like a shit saddle doesn't it? especially those Turbo saddle that always look like it came with an 1980's supermarket MTB bike.

i had my brooks b-17 in honey and itm carbon seatpost stolen from outside the landsowne arms on kingsland rd on saturday evening, lesson learned! but if anyone sees it anywhere, it would be nice to know.

I've got a Kryptonite seat saver, saddles are so easy to pinch I'm amazed anyone doesn't use one.

I reckon it's about time brooks actually addressed this problem, with a leather-sheathed bit of chain that matches your saddle.

Eureka!

goes off to find some leather strips to start a new line in SkullyChops products

My girlfriend had her Brooks Comtess saddle and post stolen on Friday in Depford... She was really sad about that...
I put back the original saddle on her bike, an ugly saddle with bits of foam folling from cuts on the fake leather... She does not want a fancy Brooks saddle anymore now...

Loic

I have 2 Brooks saddles, wasnt aware you could secure them. You learn something new every day :-)

Dang i just bought a swallow titanium...I think I'm going to superglue it to the seatpost and chain it to the frame too! :-)

How good is the bicycle chain defence? Have you guys been parking your brooks+chain adorned bikes in all sorts of places and gotten a way with it? Or do you still resort to your pub bike for nights out etc?

I am deliberating between going incognito, i.e. shit looking saddle cover when parking in dodgy places or the chain option. Using as a chain is practically advertising the value of your saddle so it could work against the saddle cover/plastic bag trick.

I used the chain method on my rescue build, I did'nt really stress about locking that bike anywhere, but was just sensible where I left it locked up.

It's true, it does kind of advertise the fact you've got a decent saddle, but you still need to protect your saddle as Stem only rides up 'poke ass'. Not sure how effective the bag trick is to be fair, but I guess any precaution is better than taking none at all.

just reverted to a chain option.......will report back when its had some use.......the plastic bag was used once by me in vain, used once, and failed once, clearly wouldnt recommend it

@starfish
I've only heard about one chained (as in drive chain) saddle being removed. At Old St, natch. I'm pretty sure it was done with a chainbreaker, the poster (on here) said there was no evidence of anything more brutal done to the chain.

Next step? Obscure tiny or massive chain link gauge with specialist chainbreaker?!

at primitive - FWIW, I use a chain to secure. The carrier bag I use to protect the saddle from the elements, not really to hide it.

I've had someone try to pinch a chain-linked Rolls in Noho. They must have only realised it was chained once they'd undone the pinch bolt, and left it undone. I only realised when my seatpin sunk into the tube as I mounted.

I had my Brooks B67 stolen on Mare Street which was chained through the saddle rails with an AXA rl-140. They didn't break the chain so they must of unscrewed the bolts that attach the rails to the springs and slid the chain out, crafty buggers.

I now have a Brooks B33 and put my chain through the nose loop which as far as I can tell is riveted to the saddle so they'd have to destroy it to get it (Please correct me if this is obviously flawed).

Does any one know what it takes to cut through a kryptonite kryptoflex seatsaver?
Has any one lost or know of some one who has lost their saddle using one?
I use one on my Brooks B17 - through the rails, under a plastic bag for disguise and weather, but it doesn't look like it would take much to get through a kryptonite kryptoflex seatsaver...

Garden secateurs or snips from any diy shop will go through any cable in about .5 seconds.
Take it with you if you don't want to loose it or magnetic bb's in all the allen heads.

I've had someone try to pinch a chain-linked Rolls in Noho.

Wat?
I gave my Brooks away and put a Rolls on hoping it was less desirable to undesirables. You know there is a recession when your £30 saddle is at risk.