CR content: Belt saddle/Fuji S10S story A teenager and his dad came into Bike Gallery one day in 1979 or 1980. One or both of them bought jade-green Fuji S10S bikes. These were sweet sporting rides; Ishiwata tubing, sealed Gyromaster hubs, good cranks and VX derailleurs, a better road feel than some of the more expensive Treks of the time. They ask about breaking in the Belt B17 copies on the bikes. One of the employees says something about oil and Proofhide. They go to the library in search of bike books. The next day they both come back chuckling, holding a steel saddle frame with a few shreds of leather stuck to it. They'd checked a book out with some old saddle information in it, information that said to boil a stretched leather saddle briefly to soften it up. They put a pot of water on threw in the saddle and left it on a low light, forgetting about it while they mowed the lawn or something. By the time they remembered, the leather was saturated to a spongy texture and fell off in big handfulls when they handled the saddle.
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David Feldman
> John Taglia wrote:
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> >World's lightest 62 cm steel Ciocc:
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> ><http://ebay.com/<blah>
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> >Maybe 17 lbs without the wheels.
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> In the ad was the statement, " The saddle is made in Great
> Britain by Belt" I thought these were Asian copies of Brooks?
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> Roy H. Drinkwater
> Lititz, PA
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