Re: [CR]Ti Ideale 90 sold....

(Example: Framebuilders:Cecil Behringer)

From: "Russ Fitzgerald" <rfitzger@emeraldis.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Ti Ideale 90 sold....
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 10:01:45 -0500


>In a message dated 3/1/01 3:13:07 PM, beyerc@mailserver.volvo.com writes:
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><< Wasn't there an alloy-railed Ideale 59 that went for ove $700 a few months
>ago? Maybe we should pool our resources and go into business
>counterfieting Ideale saddles...........

Okay - not for counterfeiting purposes, but I really wish someone would acquire the rights to the Ideale name and their models and start making really nice reissues of them. The Ideale 90 is still the finest saddle I've ever been aboard, for instance. Some of the other models could be done on a limited basis.

I keep wishing Brooks would decide to take this course of action and offer a custom shop set up, or at least a "reissue of the month" pattern. Not a lot of them would be built at any one time, but every so often, as supplies of, say, the "Reissue Rebour Mod. 90" started drying up, they could run another run. Say, every three years or so ...

Hopelessly dreaming,
Russ Fitzgerald
Greenwood SC
rfitzger@emeraldis.com