Using a round bar stool seat as a bicycle saddle?!
With rain polluted with god knows what trickling down from the storm clouds above, there I was walking along the streets of Taiwan minding my own business when a bicycle stopped me dead in my tracks....
View ArticleStopping a saddle sliding along a seatpost clamp
Although these days most saddle rails will fit the grooves carved into a seatpost clamp, due to the sheer amount of seatpost clamp and saddle combinations possible, it’s still occasionally possible to...
View ArticleHow to get a Brooks saddle to stop creaking
One of the things I love about my Brooks saddle is its simplicity. Essentially I’m sitting on a bit of leather stretched over a metal frame. Brilliantly simple and wonderfully comfy. Unfortunately with...
View ArticleKalloy SP-248D seatpost failure @ ~10,000kms
The Kalloy SP-248D seatpost looks pretty good in silver and compliments the Surly Long Haul Trucker aesthetically quite well. I believe the company has been using the Kalloy seatpost for a few years...
View ArticleOn bicycle saddles, female pheromones and scooters
After two hundred or so leather bicycle saddles went missing in Yokohama (Japan) since January this year, local police have been left scratching their heads – well, that is until the perp decided to...
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