Originally Posted by
countrydirt
Wow Raven - nice job of saddle butchery. How do those screws (?) work? Seems like that would take a little away from the back side of your saddle. Seriously, I want to know. I have a B-17 that I think will pull away from the rivets, so am curious as to how it works to put in those brass screws that appear, from the photo anyway, to protrude fairly substantially above the saddle surface. Do you mainly ride the nose? Or do you have a cast iron fanny?
I guess it's a case of cast-iron fanny then.
Actually, the seat is very much forward on the rails but I do not notice the bolts. The seat on the Mongoose has smaller bolts with a lower head profile but I would recommend getting and going through the process of using copper swat-rivets that have a flat head profile (
http://www.outfitterssupply.com/prod...?number=WLF900) and a post that you trim off after application. You can probably find this same product at Lowe's or Home Depot. If not, I would check the local mom and pop hardware store.
On the Mongoose seat I actually disassembled the seat to do the replacement but on the Paramount seat I just replaced their rivets one at a time in-situ.
Here is a picture of a Brooks B-17 with the same type of copper rivets. Notice that it adds $20.00 to the cost of the saddle.
http://hiawathacyclery.com/cart/inde...p_image&pID=19 &
http://hiawathacyclery.com/cart/inde...=index&cPath=5