What years was this Brooks Pro made?
08-02-12, 04:56 PM
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What years was this Brooks Pro made?
This is the style Brooks Pro I like. What years was it produced? and when was the change to the covered nose version?
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08-02-12, 05:19 PM
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Have you checked the underside for the date code?
08-02-12, 06:07 PM
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Not my bike. just wondering when the change from open nose to covered nose happened.
08-02-12, 07:05 PM
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I am not sure the cut of the leather at the nose is a chronological indicator; I heard somewhere the different cuts were just different models that might have been offered concurrently. One thing for sure is that I don't know.
08-02-12, 08:34 PM
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I had one of those, purchased new around 1976 or so; think I paid around $50 CA (I had succumbed to the leather saddle koolaid) . Never got it broken in to a comfortable state (I weighed less than 125# at the time), so my dad helped me out by taking it off my hands for a fair price, IIRC, and I don't know what became of it since. In retrospect, I should have kept it, at least for nostalgia's sake, but heck, I was 15 at the time.
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Snub nosed pro...lots of early 70's bikes had them. Mine came from a shop the closed doors around 68 but I think he ordered in stock and continued to take on jobs he liked.
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