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I'm sure I read/was told that brooks tend to be positioned leaning back a little because as they age they form a sort of hammock shape. No idea where I got that from though.

That being said, I ride my B17N tilted back a little, and I'm coming to the realisation that this really doesn't work for me, or my gentleman's area.

p.s. Photobucket is shit now.

AGREED! I can't even upload anything anymore, what's the deal?

The correct place to fit a Brooks is in the bin.

Like your seatpost.

I'm sure I read/was told that brooks tend to be positioned leaning back a little because as they age they form a sort of hammock shape. No idea where I got that from though.

that would be from Ed in an attempt to defend his weird saddle angle.

Like your seatpost.

If it was attached to a Brooks then absolutely, it'd be tainted and probably beyond redemption.

^This

#eachtotheirown

p.s. Photobucket is shit now.

imgur.com is really good, its the best photo hosting site atm

^This

#eachtotheirown

Yes, you're no longer putting spaces in your hash tags!

repairing and painting this frame for the mrs's birthday.... 2 reasonable dents on top and DT... Need to wait for the filler to set, the another layer filler and onto finishing and paint.

Over-faded /:

hopefully look alright built up.

Sweet!

What does it say on the downtube?

nothing. it does look like it says something on the seattube though.

cantgoslo on the seat tube, and the head tube has an LSF press & peel, that I'm going to peel off to reveal (hopefully) a green LSF logo as a head tube badge.

nothing. it does look like it says something on the seattube though.

Kurwa, ur a seattube

These are free to the first person to get to my house (SE23) to pick them up:

Interested if the bars are 25.4 clamp size...

oops sorry I did not read right, I can't be the first person to collect... Ignore me...

The goggles they do nothing

Saw this Nature Boy Zona rather cheap and had to snap up frame and forks ... luckily someone also split up his Nature Boy at the same time so I got wheels/stem/seatpost/headset/brakes/levers in a nice cheap package. Got a few more parts from ebay and put the whole thing together to show it on here.

Going to be a great ride! :D

Better pics and list of parts when it's done.

What's the point of drops when they're virtually positioned like raisers?

Matches the saddle angle, innit.

force double cranks too???

riding with right crank only?
how does that work?

come on guys ... I just put the parts together for the picture.

make more sense now ;)

So, as you say, pretty close to horizontal... That Bob Jackson posted few pages back looks like the saddle is like a plane taking off... So it's just not right to justify this by using the brooks design as an excuse, or the "pretty close to horizontal rule"... I was looking at the Alex Singer book this WE again, these bikes have leather saddles, rarely brooks I must admit. Some are pointing up a little, but only a very little, and these bikes had a very trad geometry, with only a few centimeters of saddle post showingt, and where the saddle is not that much higher than the handle bars compared to that bob jackson... Just imagine trying to go on the drops with that setting, I don't see the benefit of comfort, sorry? People / bikes on here are being severely criticized for much minor problems, thrown in anti porn, newbies are being told off, etc... So when someone like Ed, who knows his shit, is a true enthousiast, brings (I find) interesting info / picture references into the threads, but also don't hesitate to often give his opinions, shows a saddle angle like it should be a horror movie, I don't want to hear about brooks design and the "close to horizontal" rule, because it's not relevant.
I made nightmares about that saddle...

Dude!