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Well anyway to return to the very first post of this thread where my son Tom introduced my Youngs frame with the bent back stay . . . several years later my family bought me a Brooks swift saddle. To be specific a Brooks titanium frame swift saddle for Christmas. It didn't look quite right on my alloy frame winter trainer road bike which had been my regular ride since the Youngs bike went pear shaped, so I bit the bullet and went to Manchester bike builder Neil Orrell who brazed in new back stays, got the frame restored and enamelled and built it back up with better kit than I could have dreamed of when I originally bought the frame new from Youngs in 1974. Unfortunately the replica decals are the later, more utilitarian design but the bike as it is now, built up with Shimano Tiagra, long reach tektros to get down to the 700c's, crowned with the brooks saddle and handlebar tape is by general agreement not a bike but a thing of beauty. This summer my wife and i set off on the same route from St Malo on which Tom rode on the back of my bike, and then continued our way down the French coast to the Spanish border at Hendaye, enjoying brilliant weather along the way. Tom and his partner joined us for a week en route. This time he didn't ride on the back. Hope you agree this is a happy ending (or beginning).