Originally Posted by Happy Feet

Look at the end of post 18 here: https://www.bikeforums.net/touring/1...s-touring.html

This was just last week. I emailed Brooks, who were very good about a replacement, but they did confirm that their tape is made of splices now. Apparently the set I received was from a poor batch and had 4 splices in total. You have two pieces of tape to a set, one for each side. But each side potentially has splices in the length of leather.