Re: [CR]re: what's under that Cinelli saddle?

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From: "Galen" <gvpoole@bellsouth.net>
To: "dave martinez" <dmart84815@yahoo.com>, "C. Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: [CR]re: what's under that Cinelli saddle?
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:54 -0500
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Dave,

Well, does the plastic base have a logo? We're all waiting to find out!

Galen Poole
Jackson, MS


----- Original Message -----
From: dave martinez
To: "C. Andrews"
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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]re: what's under that Cinelli saddle?



> Hello Charles,
>
> I removed the leather top from the Cinelli-Unicanitor saddle last night.
> It came off quite easily with very little glue residue. Kinda reminded me
> when I was a kid skinning a catfish (off topic).
>
> Regards,
> Dave Martinez
> Fremont Ca
>
> "C. Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Mike Kone wrote in response to Dave M.'s question:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I did this once - yes, I took an old scruffy old logo saddle
> and found an old logo plastic shell with the Unicanitor
> logo - Cool!
>
> But!!!! - there was a problem. Lots of adhesive residue was
> hard to remove so it is not so simple a task. And I don't
> thing the shell is perfectly identical to the plastic only
> version - not the same holes. But I suppose if cleaned up
> the task might work.
>
> Mike Kone Boulder CO
>
> ********
>
> I have a couple of these where the leather was removed. I
> notice a permanent change in texture where the leather was
> glued down; my guess would be that the solvents in the
> contact cement used at that time (old-style contact cement
> was serious stuff, as we all recall, I'm sure), altered the
> plastic beneath.
>
> Might still be worth taking the leather off...but it's
> likely the saddle will never look like one that came without
> leather.
>
> My two bits.
>
> Charles Andrews
> SoCal
>
>
> "What concerns me is not the way things are,
> but rather the way people think things are."
>
> - Epictitus