Or Augustine-Augustine

Pastorbob and I are Presbyterian parsons, Bro. Barth. We've got a bad case of the "can't help its". Did you choose that username just to see if anyone would notice?

Well to keep in line with the thread - I had an O. Green Super Sport with a brooks b-15 and an O. Blue Sports Tourer with with a brooks pro on it - the two bikes I had picked up for less than 100 total. While I was using those as daily riders I was also attending a theological institution with conservative background... Around this time I had signed up for BF...

I still have the brooks pro - but it has been ripping for the last year and a half... (water damage, old etc..) - but I sold the SS with the b-15. Both brooks served me well!

Back to the theological cemetery - I was reading up on KB (but not for class work) and apparently could think of no more a creative login than the one I chose (I would change it if I could - without starting over)...

But oh well... KB probably won out over Sartre, Nietzsche, Derrida, Foucault, Dorothy Day, MLK jr, Ghandi, Malcolm-X, Buber, Yoder, Rauschenbusch, Gutiérrez... But why, I do not remember, and why I would choose someone else's name? Anyway..

I think we're going with the b-135 and a b-33 for the Deluxe Twinn

So, B-K, at least tarmusic and I will want you to know, he doesn't have any Brooks, but I on the other hand, have 3-Professionals, 1-B15, 1-B17, and 3-B72s (all were either found or cheap purchases of used ones). I believe tarmusic's training was at a more conservative school where he was only taught to 3X and 4X lacing. I went to a couple of more mainline places and was taught all kinds of lacing patterns. I'm encouraging tarmusic to replace a gel model on his Super Sport for a Brooks. I'm tempted to send him one.

BTW, sounds like a good choice of Brooks for the Twinn!

Does "reformed" mean I can have more than one bike? Is it "LBS" or "LDS," I fergit!

Road Fan

being a Jew I guess I should be called Abraham-Isaac, since we're inventing new handles based on religio-philosophical orientation.

Road Fan

"Reformed" refers to a branch of the Protestant church which includes folks who trace their theological roots to John Calvin of the 16th century. Who, while originally a Frenchman, ended up in Switzerland, so therefore must have riden a Titan.

In bike terms, "Reformed and always Reforming," means that you are not tempted by unobtainium bikes. Because you can often find vintage bikes tossed out in the trash or at the dump, etc., you are a bike Savior, and can thus have as many as you can gather around you!

Yes, I remember that passage, but much earlier, probably in the Oldest Testament: "On the First day he created the bicycle. On the second day he created the Brooks saddle to ride on. Etc...."

Yes, but I learned to lace quite tightly

Send it on, my friend!

German theolog Karl Barth was also of the Reformed persuasion, which is what got us started in this direction. Few people know that (in addition to his better-known theological pronouncements) Barth firmly believed that if God had wanted us to ride on gel saddles, he would've made cows out of gel.

I wonder if the dear professor Barth had a Brooks mounted to his ride?

Sorry, no theological comments Here's a Champion Flyer on my '88 Panasonic PT-3500:



It's still pretty new but already quite comfortable. It took a lot of work to get the adjustment right. I couldn't get it to tilt back far enough until I took a dremel grinder to the slot on the seat post adjuster.

And here's a Team Professional on my '72 Bottecchia Giro d'Italia:



I haven't gotten this one dialed in yet. It needs to tilt back a bit more but the seatpost won't hold the adjustment in that position, at least not as tight as I can get it with my pocket multi-tool.

I can't understand why people like their Brooks saddles tilted back like that, but I guess we're all different. All of mine are just slightly higher in the rear.

Dirtdrop, I tilt mine in this way as well. In fact I usually put a level on mine in order to help eyeball in that slight nose drop before I take it for the first ride.