Re: [CR]Retro style saddle info ?

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Chater-Lea)

From: "Matthew Gorski" <bikenut@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Retro style saddle info ?
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:20:48 -0700


Retro....?!?! It looks like it's ready for the S&M crowd.... and I'm not talking Spaniards and Mexicans here. :^)

M de G Beautiful Mountain Shore, CA

<snip> Subject: Re: [CR]Retro style saddle info ?


> Geoff Duke wrote:
> > Hi All
> > I recently ( before this years tour ) saw a reference somewhere to a retro
> > style saddle that was becoming available.I am unable to recall the
> > manufacturer but my memory tells me that it was covered in brown leather,
> > sported large rivets and was in the cut-away style.I think it may have had
> > a Ti rail option and I think it was being made by one of the Italian
> > makers.Can anyone tell me who. And before anyone wastes there e-mail time I
> > don't want a Brooks for this bike even though they meet all of the above
> > description .
> > Geoff Duke in Melbourne Australia

Geoff, you must mean the Selle Italia STORIKA saddle. They just hit my local bike shop Wednesday. Waaaay retro-moda!!! (190g, ti rails, brass rivets, nylon skeleton frame with suspended leather inserts):
   http://www.mtbreview.com/tradeshow/interbike2002/kore/images/prodimg1.jpg http://store4.yimg.com/I/glorycycles_1753_4416082 http://www.glorycycles.com/seitst.html http://www.cbike.com/saddles.htm Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, CA