Cycling has always been a fashion orientated sport especially during the sixties. One of the earliest fashions during this period was for the craze for butchered B17 saddles. These were pre-shaped and pre-softened and fitted with large rivets normally copper, they were also fitted with underguards. Condor's were really quick to take up on this craze and were probably the inspiration of this trend. Likewise Harry Hall in the north was also supplying these butchered B17's. If you thumb through any British cycling mag of this period prior to 1963 you will find adverts for both firms advertising these saddles "shaped for the connoisseur large rivets matt or polished finish with underguards". This saddle soon became known as the Professional due to Condors racing team, and Brooks although at first slow to reconize a trend finally woke up and marketed the Proffesional towards the end of 1963.
Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK
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