vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
I have a Brooks B17 to break in on my Chimera. 
I might be gone a while.
I might be gone a while.
I'm off out.
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threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
B17! see you in a couple of years then...
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
still got one to do same waiting for dry weather and right bike
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
How was the new bike - probably great as you've not been back - still pedalling ?
Baggy
Cake connoisseur
- Location
- Where the chevrons are
He's probably back but can't sit down to type anything 
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
I'm back and fed and watered.
The bike is wonderful. It had a baptism of fire - a sixty nine mile ride incorporating a 100km DIY Audax.
As for the saddle - not a problem. I've always found B17 saddles to be fine from the outset and its presence was forgotten about within the first five miles.
The Rohloff hub has transformed my pedalling. It's much easier to maintain a cadence with the ratio steps that Rohloff decree. I found my average speed building up as I pedalled to Selby from Leeds. I then had to cut through a headwind from Selby through Tadcaster and onto Boston Spa.
I'm currently having difficulty getting enough calories into my body through finding malt loaf and bananas a bit challenging and energy drinks (Go powder and water mix) a bit sickly. Accordingly I began to flag a bit as I pedalled up and out of Collingham, recovered for the descent to Otley where I glugged a bottle of lucozade, had a ten minute rest and then tackled the clim out of Otley towards Bramley and back home in Meanwood. The lucozade did the trick and climbed out of Otley without flagging ang and made the most of the descent back home to average 10.1 miles per hour for the ride.
The Shimano XT v-brakes fitted to the bike are the most powerful rim brakes that I've ever had fitted to a bike and they have no problem scrubbing off speed on fast descents when I bottle out. I found myself 'pedalling out' in top gear at around 26 mph but the bike was never intended to be a speed machine. It is rock steady on fast descents though.
Gears eight to fourteen are silent and scooting through the countryside in silence is wonderful. The noise from the lower gears is not intrusive and I've been assured that this will decrease as the gears bed in. I didn't use the extreme top and bottom gears for long as they were not really needed. Bottom gear is re-assuringly low and I'm looking forwards to my first tour at Easter. Possibly the Way of the Roses.
I think I need to tweak the seat position. A bit up and back. The bar position seams fine and I'm impressed with the anatomical grips.
I'll post a picture of the bike 'in the wild' shortly.
The bike is wonderful. It had a baptism of fire - a sixty nine mile ride incorporating a 100km DIY Audax.
As for the saddle - not a problem. I've always found B17 saddles to be fine from the outset and its presence was forgotten about within the first five miles.
The Rohloff hub has transformed my pedalling. It's much easier to maintain a cadence with the ratio steps that Rohloff decree. I found my average speed building up as I pedalled to Selby from Leeds. I then had to cut through a headwind from Selby through Tadcaster and onto Boston Spa.
I'm currently having difficulty getting enough calories into my body through finding malt loaf and bananas a bit challenging and energy drinks (Go powder and water mix) a bit sickly. Accordingly I began to flag a bit as I pedalled up and out of Collingham, recovered for the descent to Otley where I glugged a bottle of lucozade, had a ten minute rest and then tackled the clim out of Otley towards Bramley and back home in Meanwood. The lucozade did the trick and climbed out of Otley without flagging ang and made the most of the descent back home to average 10.1 miles per hour for the ride.
The Shimano XT v-brakes fitted to the bike are the most powerful rim brakes that I've ever had fitted to a bike and they have no problem scrubbing off speed on fast descents when I bottle out. I found myself 'pedalling out' in top gear at around 26 mph but the bike was never intended to be a speed machine. It is rock steady on fast descents though.
Gears eight to fourteen are silent and scooting through the countryside in silence is wonderful. The noise from the lower gears is not intrusive and I've been assured that this will decrease as the gears bed in. I didn't use the extreme top and bottom gears for long as they were not really needed. Bottom gear is re-assuringly low and I'm looking forwards to my first tour at Easter. Possibly the Way of the Roses.
I think I need to tweak the seat position. A bit up and back. The bar position seams fine and I'm impressed with the anatomical grips.
I'll post a picture of the bike 'in the wild' shortly.
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
I've never spent any time breaking in a B17.
They have always been a 'fit and go' purchase with no discomfort suffered.
Currently I have four bikes fitted with B17s.
I will shortly have a used B17 for sale as I'm selling a bike to achieve n-1 (don't panic it's an interim state) and the purchaser didn't want the B17 and is happy with a cheap Sell Italia saddle.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Hurry up..... LOL
smokeysmoo
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
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