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Brooks Team Professional "Team Special" (with polished rivets)
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Category:  Saddles
Name:  Brooks Team Professional "Team Special" (with polished rivets)
Brand:  Brooks
Model:  Team Professional
Years:  1981 - 2000's
Country:  England
Added By: Wolfram Verktyg on 07/28/09
Updated By: Wolfram Verktyg on 07/28/09
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Base Material LeatherCovering Material N/A (No Covering)
Rail MaterialSteelWidth160mm
Length280mmRail Spacing 42mm ctr-to-ctr (standard spacing)
General Information
Starting about 1974 or 75 Raleigh Team Professional bikes (the red, yellow and black ones) and many standard Raleigh Professionals came with this style Brooks Team Professional saddle.

They had large 16mm diameter polished rivets that were flush with the leather. These were referred to as "Brooks Professional Team Special" saddles in the Raleigh catalog specs. They were very rare and most of the ones that I saw were on new Raleigh bikes during the mid to late 70s. The leather had a dull, presoftened look. This NOS 1981 saddle is stamped B81 in the cantle with “VFS” and “B..H” stamped into the underside of the leather.

In the 1980s Brooks Team Pros started coming with rivets showing rough sanding marks instead of a polished finish. The versions from the past decade or so have rough hammered rivets.

The leather on this saddle is very stiff and over 6.5mm thick. Most of my other Brooks Pro saddles have leather that’s 4.5mm to 5.5mm thick. Also up through the early 1980s the leather covering the saddle noses was cut off slightly squared exposing the copper plated adjustment nose plate. Later models have a rounded nose that covers the plate.

The rails are chrome plated steel.
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 One of the oldest cycling companies still in business, Brooks of England is most well known for the cycling component John Boultbee Brooks invented in 1865: the leather cycling saddle.  The Brooks company has been owned by a number of different parent companies over the years as detailed in the History section.
 
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