Bikefest Melbourne

See if you can spot one of my leather creations in here. On Faith's bike.

Casino Colnago Unicanitor

 

 

My first go at using this white vegetable tanned kangaroo hide. It's fractionally thicker than most of the hides I use and kind of stiffer (more difficult to work with). But the results are really clean and the skin itself seems to be exceptionally strong. This one's another old Cinelli Unicanitor for Ken in Boston. I'm really happy with how the Colnago emblem turned out on the two sides.

The design is a Unicanitor variation on the 'Casino' which continues to be kind of popular.

Adidas BMX: Top Secret

 

Tainted Love

Is the kangaroo as tough as we thought? Coming back in soon for some more Busyman love.

Nice Nice Nice

Greg's Baum Cubano. Nice bike, nice tape and nice wrapping job! Thanks for the photos Greg.

Three Stitch Tape

  

Neil's new tape with triple stitch in blue to match the highlight colour on his Focus Izalco Pro.

Swift Roo SMP

Bridie's spare swift birdie saddle

Brassy Cover Up

Andy dropped his Moser and scratched up his Busyman saddle. He wanted some Rolls-like brass trimming to both cover the damage and protect. So here it is along with a matching leather band aid.

Rolls Raleigh Heron

With matching bar tape. Antique dark tan with cherry and copper oxide highlights. For Corey's Italian Raleigh restoration

NAHBS: BAUM

I did the bar tape and recovered the Fizik Arione CX. Photos by Baum via Cycling Tips. It was a pleasure working on the leatherwork for Todd, now I'm looking forward to his road bike.

Bird Leaf Word

A trio for riding buddies Mike, Jean and Nigel. A lovely gesture of Mikes.

Bridie's Birds

Just delivered this saddle to Bridie O'Donell. It's the 2nd time I've recovered this saddle, the last one she wore out completely - she rides a lot, maybe too much. This time I've used a synthetic leather called Lorica. Thanks to The New Timer for introducing me to this "vegan leather". I anticipate it will survive maybe a little longer than it's predecessor. 

Super Light SLR

Daniel's really lightweight carbon SLR saddle recovered in black kangaroo with highlights to match his new Giant TCR Advanced SL 1 race bike.

2 Wheelers Magazine

With a section on my stuff!

Cinelli Unicanitor Restoration

Quilted kangaroo

Suede with top stitch detail

A couple of Cinelli Unicanitor saddles I recently restored and customised for Ken in the USA.

Grey Tape

Grey tape with bright green bits. Everything done by hand, very soft and supple. It's a lovely leather.

Pea Green

P for Parlee

Thankyou Cards: Richard Sachs

Just found this on the Velocipede interwebs. The little offcuts of the tape I did for Richard put to a good use.

Naturally

Fizik Vesta

His & Hers

Hers

A Fizik Vesta with matching bar tape in natural vege tanned leather with purple highlighted perforations to match the details on this lovely new Signal frame. The green backed perforations are another story, they're supposed to be on a grey tape to match another frame. More on that later.

Curvaceous Comfort

David swears by this saddle for comfort. It's curvaceous and generously padded. I haven't recovered one like this for a quite some time, I had forgotten the challenges that the voluminous form presents. Of course the kangaroo leather was perfect for the job, conforming beautifully to the form of the saddle. This should give David plenty more years of comfortable riding.