Re: [CR]Retro style saddle info ?

(Example: Framebuilders:Tubing:Columbus)

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 22:33:53 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Retro style saddle info ?
References: <4.2.0.58.20030817104635.0099f490@mailhost.civag.unimelb.edu.au>


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

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