Stolen parts / please discuss

Thats given me a cunning idea, if Stelle could take a plaster cast of her arse, we could make duplicates and travel round London checking brooks saddles to see if the cast of the arse fits....

Stealing a brooks is stupid, because it's broken in it's never gonna be comfortable to the next person riding it...

kinda, all you have to do is tighten it up again, and break it in again.

But when you tighten it, it's still stressed in the parts it's stressed in, and you can't tighten through that as it'll just split the leather.

there's only so much you can do really.

I had a black Brooks Swift titanium and a NOS Campag Aero pipey bit stolen from my Colnago three weeks ago. T'was outside the Prince Arthur in Hackney about 4 Thursdays ago. (Thursday after Tweed Run). My friends think they saw the 'erbert come in the pub to 'ave a butchers at us before he nicked it. Wish that was the first bike thing I've had stolen in London. I would quite like to try the security bolt route: ( Pitlocks have seemed to be sucessfull on some of my other bikes). Does anyone know for sure the size of the bolt on say a Chorus seatpin?

colnago ... outside ... hackney ... fail

Thats given me a cunning idea, if Stelle could take a plaster cast of her arse, we could make duplicates and travel round London checking brooks saddles to see if the cast of the arse fits....

HA! well, if you wouldn't mind...

but eew, the thought of sitting in cold plaster.yuk!

Just had my brown Brooks B17 stolen of my Bianchi Pista on the corner of Shoreditch High st and Old St. Probably quite stupid to leave it there for a few hrs but who walks around with an allen key anyway!?

Just thought i'd vent my anger.

who walks around with an allen key anyway!?

bike theft, if it said "brooks" and it's nearly new, worth a few bucks selling it.

tips for preventing it to get stolen again - either ball bearing superglued in the bolts of the seatpost, and/or bicycle chain loop the saddle to the frame.

both is a sure way to prevent it from happening again, it won't be 100% protective, but enough to deterred the theft, especially with the ball bearings.

Yeah will have to be some kind of chain loop for the next one i think. Or just bring the seat with me if i have to lock the bike outside. Was a few months old and just properly worn in. Frecking thieves!

thing is, once you adjust the saddle to the perfect height and distance, there's no need to adjust it ever again, hence the ball bearings.