Originally Posted by
Six jours
In my experience Brooks has been hit-or-miss the last few years. I have a B-17 (unsprung) with very thin leather. After a thousand miles or so it's essentially become unusable for my 200 pounds. That isn't typical, but from what I've gathered lately, it isn't as atypical as it should be, either.
I have 9 Brooks saddles, only one of them showed what I consider a premature sag, this being after about 8000 miles lugging my fat ass back and forth to work. I popped a couple holes in the skirt with a drill and ran a shoelace through it. Voila, most comfortable saddle this side of my pre-production Imperial.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.