Re: [CR]Now:Saddle Butchering Was:Campy short seat posts

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Falck)

From: "Brandon Ives" <monkeylad@mac.com>
To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: [CR]Now:Saddle Butchering Was:Campy short seat posts
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:47:25 -0700 (PDT)

On Tuesday, Sep 10, 2002, at 01:19PM, Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Riding Manuals written in England in the early 50s had very complete
>instructions on Saddle Butchering.

We prefer to call it "custom modification." I used to do this a bunch until about '92 or so. One of the reasons were all the Brooks saddles with flared sides you could pick up for next to nothing. I preferred to cut them down than stitch them.
ciao,
Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
SB, CA