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.

Scary Face Dude

AKA "The Horned One". Custom recover on a worn out and damaged Turbo for Dan of Collingwood. Dan provided the artwork and I provided the material (100% kangaroo leather) and the technique (raised emboss).

Northside CX Swift

Another swift Fizik Arione for Northside Wheelers: CX model: Black kangaroo leather.

Leather Treatment

Dan's heavy old beast (not sure what it is) with old school flip flop system and steel everything came in for some Busyman leather treatment. The Australian Bell saddle had seen better days, the leather had become so rigid that it had torn through releasing some of the rivets. So I've done what I could to restore it with moulded leather reinforcement glued underneath, heavy duty stitching around the tears and a new set of copper rivets. We decided to lace the skirt of the saddle in order to restore it to something more like the original shape and it's been well and truly moisturised with Proofide, olive oil and Gilles Berthoud's "Special Grease for Leather Saddles?".

And the bars were treated to some wrapping in 2mm vegetable tanned cow hide, moulded and stitched on. This should now age and patina very gracefully taking on a tan from the sunlight, dirt and oils form everyday use. And a little bit of hidden branding too.....

More Fluoro

And this fluoro highlighted tape for this Parlee at The Cycling Edge.

Fluoro Kangaroo

The fluoro orange kangaroo skin was a great find. This SLR Classic Gel Flow features ordered perforations backed with a bright blue. A belated addition for this Parlee at Cycling Edge.

Kumo Cycles' Rolling Clouds

I just sent this Selle San Marco Rolls recovery off to Keith at Kumo Cycles. The motif is adapted from his head badge cloud with my decorative perforated contribution. The shape of the cloud has worked out really well with the shape of the saddle, overall I'm really pleased with the sharp graphic quality of the outcome. It will be adoring this frame in the near future.

Cars and Saddles II: Joachims Photos

Busyman underside detail

Bonus matching bill-fold wallet

Golden Honey

Perforated and backed with white leather

A set of fancy perforated toe straps and matching bar tape for Mark at Ventus Custom Cycles. Custom dyed to match a Brooks honey saddle, hand skived, perforated and stitched. Maybe we'll see this at NHABS 2012.

Look! Busyman Tape!

Look, today the stars aligned and we finally had a chance to wrap Chris' new bar tape.