Originally Posted by
wahoonc
Business,
Great find! I wipe my black Raleigh down with an oil dampened rag and it keeps the finish in good shape and keeps rust at bay. It looks like you have the vinyl mattress saddle from the picture. Just keep it wiped clean with a mild detergent.
Aaron
Thanks Aaron. I'm a bit confused about the lineage of the saddle, because it is definitely a Brooks, and I thought Brooks only made leather saddles. It looks very much like the B.22 saddle pictured
here in a 1958 Brooks catalog. It feels like leather, but it could be vinyl.
I started polishing some of the chrome, and I think it will clean up very nicely. The sun came out for a few minutes this morning, so I took her out and rode her a bit and snapped a few more photos.
