BROOKS ENGLAND Large leather tool saddlebag CHALLENGE B743700A172VAR

The Challenge saddlebag is a leather tool bag that attaches to the rear of the loops on a saddlebag. It has buckles that secure the bag to the saddle while sitting inside the bag itself, ensuring greater security. The strap that secures the unit wraps around the tools inside to prevent them from rattling during transport. Made in Italy from vegetable-tanned leather, the first Challenge was designed and patented in 1896.

Designed to complement our saddles

Made in Italy from vegetable-tanned leather, the Challenge saddlebag is a tool bag designed to fit at the rear of a saddle with bag loops.

Exceptional craftsmanship
Made by master craftsmen with generations of experience.

Greater stability

Its shape increases riding stability.

Unique premium details

Special components, designs, materials and manufacturing techniques add unique character and timeless distinction.

Characteristic

Vegetable-tanned leather.

Materials
Vegetable-tanned leather details

Ideal for

- Urban cycling
- Commuting in the city
- Casual Touring

Technical specifications

- Volume:1.5 liters
- Width
: 200 mm

- Depth: 65 mm

- Height: 110 mm

- Weight: +- 210 g

About Brooks
In 1865, John Boultbee Brooks left his birthplace, Hinckley, in Leicestershire, with little more to his name than ambition and £20 in his pocket. He headed to Birmingham, where just a year later he established a business under his own name, producing harnesses and various leather goods for horses. Twelve years later, following the unfortunate death of his own horse, JB Brooks borrowed a bicycle to get to work. He was excited by the possibilities of this new and ingenious means of transport, but the hard wooden saddle hurt him, and he vowed to do something about it.

In autumn 1882, he filed the first of many patents for a leather bicycle saddle. The company expanded rapidly following the success of these revolutionary designs and produced many other new products for cycling, including outerwear and durable luggage. Along the way, it also became synonymous with quality craftsmanship. Brooks England Ltd. is one of the few survivors of the once-glorious British bicycle industry. In 2002, the company was acquired by Selle Royal S.p.A., an international cycling group based in Italy, and has since operated under new management while maintaining its production facilities in England.

Instead of following the path of other former British manufacturers, Brooks has thrived, doubling its workforce and increasing its annual turnover. Its factory in Smethwick, just a few kilometres from JB Brooks’s original premises, is home to its skilled workforce, which continues to use the same traditional machinery, some of which dates back to the 1940s and 1950s.