Re: [CR]Retro style saddle info ?

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From: "Tom Martin" <tom@wilsonbike.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "Geoff Duke" <G.Duke@civag.unimelb.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Retro style saddle info ?
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:16:33 -0700


Selle Italia also makes the leather Storika, a copper plated titanium rail saddle with cutaway sides and copper rivets all over it. a photo can be found at glory cycles . com's website:

http://www.glorycycles.com/seitst.html

Tom Martin
Oakland CA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald F. Dunstan"
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


<G.Duke@civag.unimelb.edu.au> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Retro style saddle info ?


> I think the saddle you're thinking of is the Selle San Marco Regal saddle.
> Leather covered with big rivets, foam padding and ti rails. You can see it
> at Branford Bikes web site(I can't get links to work for some reason?).
>
> Don D.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoff Duke" <G.Duke@civag.unimelb.edu.au>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 7:58 PM
> Subject: [CR]Retro style saddle info ?
>
>
> > 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