Re: [CR]what saddle for late '50s Italian bike?

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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:49:41 -0500
From: <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]what saddle for late '50s Italian bike?
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To: scott Baxter <rg500g@yahoo.com>
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

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


----- Original Message -----
From: scott Baxter
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:44:00 -0000
Subject: [CR]what saddle for late '50s Italian bike?


> 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.

\r?\n>

\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.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Scott Baxter

\r?\n> St. Louis, MO

\r?\n>

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