Re: [CR]Brooks Pro Select saddle, anyone know?

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Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 13:24:49 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Brooks Pro Select saddle, anyone know?
References: <BBB74E07.F83F%fred@twistcomm.com> <3F92E12B.6239EF0D@erols.com>


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Archive-URL: http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=classicrendezvous.10206.0652.eml Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:00:28 -0700 From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [CR]Brooks Pro was Question for the Stronglight fans

Eric Elman wrote:
>
> I don't know what model crankset that is but while you're looking at the
> pictures, what kind of saddle is that? I haven't seen a Brooks Pro or Team
> Pro (big rivit heads as on this saddle) with 3 venting holes on top.

Brooks Select from the late 70s early 80s. Has an allen tensioner in the nose too. Came in a plastic display box with an allen key and a tin of Proofide.

Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal

"Martin O. Walsh" wrote:
>
> Hi Fred and CR list members
> I just bought a bicycle at the Trexlertown swap that had the same saddle that
> you ask about.The date of mine was 1978,from the T-town swap.
> It is imbossed (stamped on the cantle plate) month and last two digits for year,
> i.e., 8 78 (August 1978).
> Inspect the under side near the rear of the saddle for a date code.
> The saddle appears much newer than the 1966 date of your Paramount in my
> opinion.
> They are really nice saddles!
> I bought my first Brooks leather saddle (Brooks Pro select) in the early 1980's
> from Carl Mueller's Bicycle Shop in Baltimore,Md. but it was made in the late
> 1970's going by the date code.
> Please let us know what you hear from the "saddle experts", if you get any off
> list replies.
> Thanks !
> Yours truly,
> Martin Walsh
>
> Fredrick Yavorsky wrote:
>
> > http://www.twistcomm.com/Bikes/66_Paramount/source/p1010023.html
> > http://www.twistcomm.com/Bikes/66_Paramount/source/p1010009.html
> >
> > Speaking of saddles, I'm still hoping to get an opinion on this Brooks Pro
> > "Select" on the 1966 Paramount that followed me home. Anyone have
> > information?
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Fred Yavorsky
> > Jenkintown, PA