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 this simplicity and use of natural material comes a price. Late last year after over three years of use my Brooks saddle [...]

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 run into problems. Typically this means that even when tightened, a saddle’s railings (the metal tubes underneath a saddle) are not large enough [...]

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. As I habitually do with most bicycles I see out and about I’d glanced over at this one as [...]