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Yes, it is OK. Just remove and set aside or discard the steel clamp assembly from the rails. That is only for steel bike seat tubes, old bikes in general. The C9 should fit your existing seatpost clamp fine. There is only standard spacing for saddle rails. You have a lot to gain by trying...

Wow, how nice it would be if the CCS could take a 2.5" wide tire! (just wishing...) Am glad Tora has even upgraded the tires to something better than spec'd! This is a great thread. Enjoy your new ride!

I think, christbob, you will really like that Cloud 9! Thanks if you can get up a picture. But moreso, thanks for going the easiest route for yourself, regardless. The handmade and therefore possible or likely imperfections of the individual Brooks saddles is evidenced, too, in my video...

Be the bigger distraction That is what I think, too. Sure, it can be obnoxious. And in the case of a flashing white front light in the day or night, we can have too much of a good thing. And at night a flashing red rear light may also be far too much. The difference of thousands-fold...

"...looking right through me." That's it exactly! How many times I have been creamed or nearly hit by drivers who looked right through me. You think you have made eye contact. But they are somewhere else. I agree! The BLINKING bright light grabs the attention. I see it everyday...

Am so curious to see what the break looks like. If you can post an image, please? Still, it will be fastest and easiest for you to return the defective saddle to Amazon and reorder it. And don't suffer the pain of a new saddle, ha ha: just go soak it like I did mine. And thanks to his advice...

The Brooks Swift arrived today. Tried it out of the box and it was relatively comfortable. Little break in would be needed. JRA gave me the confidence needed to just soak the new saddle. 20 minutes in a bucket of tepid water. Put it on the bike and it was nice and pliable and instantly...

Thank you JRA right above! That is an amazingly enlightening video you provide. While you were composing your reply and I did not know you were doing so, I continued to look up old materials, just to beat the band, https://archive.org/stream/modernbicycleits00schw#page/95/mode/1up About 1898...

Well, I learned today my saddle has been lost in shipping. Somewhere it is, but it is not here. Amazon has asked the vendor to quick-ship another. In the meantime, grin, I am looking at other saddles: EDIT: there is an online inflation calculator. It informs that $5 in 1893 had the...

I like mine, too. Be sure to try the preload adjuster, probably for less tension. I am about 165. The standard spring was so strong as to be almost immobile, even when the preload screw is backed off. So I ordered from Suntour USA, the weaker spring option supposedly only for riders lighter...

Great looking "Ti Pro." What is its formal Brooks name? The wetting of the leather makes all the sense in the world to me. Leather, even thick and especially fibrous, when wetted becomes very moldable, reshapable. The goal being to mold the saddle to fit the sit bones, I now have the...

Here are my thoughts, extreme, perhaps, yet to my thinking these wants are logical and reasonable: First point. It could make a great and perhaps primary selling point if ebike sellers included as standard equipment great quality front and rear lighting, plus side lighting totally...

Erik is the nicest guy. He is also a man of many intellectual interests and pursuits. A couple of weeks ago I was putting the barrel out on the curb for pickup. I heard the thrumming sound of knobby tires and looked up. Glad I did!

Rip Current Woes put into perspective:

There is nothing more demoralizing than to have a Juiced Bike under warranty that is not working, through no fault of your own. We know Juiced means well. We know the price is lower for the value received than any other well spec'd ebike. We know they are not crooks. We know they are not...

Rattley and Floppy Fenders Fix: The two wire stays are bendable. Unhook each from the fender proper. There is a nearly hidden, small phillips head set screw to back out all the way, first, from each clip before you unclip from the fender. BEND the two wires so they splay away from the...

I am same height as Bruce and I agree with him. I wish I had gotten the M size instead of the L. I would possibly not have room for my present water bottle, is the only downside of an M frame for my 32 inch inseam. An M frame would would make it easier to let other people less tall than 5'...

All this information is so great. Thank you, too, JRA. Am having fun learning while waiting for the Brooks Swift in black to arrive. Am liable now to just soak it in warm water. And if that don't work, I will go soak my head (grin). Reading reviews, found this :D in the listing for the...

Thanks, yes! I would like to try that. Its narrowness appeals and the cutout gives it a flexibility the Brooks is not going to have. But I hope, too, I can adapt to the Brooks. I do like that name! And your B17? It's great if it fits and I guess that basic model is fairly well worked out...

for instance, 1893, https://archive.org/stream/wheelcy10261892171893newy#page/n408/mode/1up/search/brooks