There was a Unicanitor to fit the special Campagnolo post - I have one and I think there was an Ideale too. The Brooks saddles are far rarer than the special fittings for the seatpost - even in England the saddles are really quite uncommon - I have only seen one for sale in the last two or three years. They were as far as I can tell introduced in 1959.
Hilary Stone, Bristol, England
> Steven Maasland wrote:
>>
>> The following auction is for a set of the narrow saddle clamps for a
>> Campagnolo Nuovo Record seatpost. How rare are these and apart from
>> being rather uncommon, do they have any special value? I am asking this
>> because I have just such a seatpost but have never come across any
>> saddle that I can use on it. I understand that in theory, using such a
>> narrow clamp would allow you to have more adjustability, but this is
>> useless if you don't have the correct saddle.
>>
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Chuck Schmidt wrote:>
> I think you have this exactly right Steven. They are uncommon. But in
> my opinion they are not rare. They were used with a Brooks B17
> Competition Standard "Mod. Campagnolo" (stamped in a small oval on the
> saddle top) saddle.
>
> The narrow clamp allowed mega adjustability fore and aft as you said,
> but the down side was that the narrow bracing angle lets the saddle rock
> from side to side (voice of experience).
>
> They date from the late 50s and early 60s and came stock on Legnanos
> from that period. I would guess that the few Brooks Mod. Campagnolo
> saddles I have seen are take-offs from Legnanos, being replaced by the
> extremely popular Unicanitor plastic saddle (intro'd in 1959).
>
> I'm not sure if there was a corresponding narrow rail Unicanitor saddle
> for this seat post or not, but it would be a simple matter to substitute
> the normal clamps and use the normal frame rail Unicanitor.