The only real souvenir I bought in the Bay Area isn’t really a souvenir at all. No, instead of Ghirardelli Chocolate I bought myself a new saddle, the Brooks B17 Standard.
I had been thinking of a different saddle, the Brooks B67, which is sprung and intended for those of us with a fairly upright riding position. The thing is, I tried the B17 at Rivendell Bicycle Works and…well..I had to have one. I was trying their Bombadil and it had a B17 on it. The rest, as they say, is history. Here’s the bike I tried.
The B17 is wider than a racing or road saddle so it’s comfortable. It’s been around a while too…
The B17 is our flagship model, ideal for long distance sportive touring, trekking and atb use. It has been on the market for over 100 years, being featured in as early as the 1898 catalogue . The model is available for gents and ladies (B17 S) in different versions: the B17 and B17 S Standard feature black steel rails, the B17 Special features copper plated steel metalwork, and the B17 Titanium … Both the B17 Special and the Titanium also feature hand hammered copper rivets.
I still have to adjust a wee bit, though I did pretty good on my first try. I need to angle the nose up just slightly more than it is now and maybe, but just maybe, adjust the height a touch. Still, as it is, not yet broken in and not quite placed right, it’s more comfortable than the saddle I was using which I’d adjusted as well as I could.
And now that I’m home for a bit, I’ve gone ahead and order the Bike Friday Travel Trailer. I didn’t really need it till recently as my trips have required going to places where I had no intention of biking from the airport. Now though, with some inter-island journey’s planned, it’s just the Tikit, um I mean ticket. I don’t own a Tikit yet. 🙂
Now about that bag at Rivendell…sigh.
Aloha!