Its a saddle fest this morning. You can't go wrong with the B17 Narrow of the proper vintage. I think almost everyone preferred these to the Italian knockoffs or the just emerging Unicanitor.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
> The Wright's saddle I tried to revive is starting to
\r?\n> fail at a rivet, so I'm going to need to replace it
\r?\n> quite soon.
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\r?\n> I've looked around the Internet and see a lot of
\r?\n> diversity w/respect to the saddles I see on late '50s
\r?\n> to early '60s Italian bicycles.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Does anyone know what was the most commonly specified
\r?\n> saddle for these bikes? In lieue of any specifc
\r?\n> recommendations, I'll probably go with a Brooks B17
\r?\n> narrow or possibly a French Ideale.
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\r?\n> Scott Baxter
\r?\n> St. Louis, MO
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