FW: [CR]Fujita saddles

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From: "nick zatezalo" <nickzz@mindspring.com>
To: "CR List" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: FW: [CR]Fujita saddles
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:48:51 -0500


The Fuji S12s that I bought for my wife in 1978 came with a Fuji approved leather saddle that I believe was made by Fujita. It was also rock hard but actually broke in quite nicely over time.

Nick Zatezalo Atlanta, Ga


> [Original Message]
> From: Gary Chottiner <gsc2@cwru.edu>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Date: 2/11/2004 4:10:53 PM
> Subject: [CR]Fujita saddles
>
> I'm pretty sure a Fujita saddle came on my Proteus, which was made in the
> mid-70's. The bike originally had a mixture of Campy and high quality
> Japanese components. The first thing to fail on it was the saddle; it was
> comfortable enough after it broke me in but one of the steel rails fractured
> after a few years - and that's when I was 20 pounds lighter. No doubt it
> was an isolated bad apple but my Brooks saddle has held up a lot longer.
>
> Gary Chottiner, Northeast Ohio
>
> - where I was able to bike to work Monday and Tuesday for the first time in
> a month, but snow covered the roads again last night.
> _____
>
> In a message dated 2/11/04 6:43:26 AM, mail at woodworkingboy.com
> http://www.bikelist.org/mailman/listinfo/classicrendezvous writes:
>
>
> > Man, the
> > leather on these is hard as a rock! Either of these saddles ever make it
> > over to your side of the pond?
> >
> > Hope the ofuro relieves the posterior pain.
> >
> > Dennis Young
> > Hotaka, Japan
> >
>
> Hi, Dennis,
>
> Yeah, I remember the Fujita saddles from mid 60's in Japan. They are very
> high
> quality "copy" of Brooks all the way. I had one exactly like Brooks
> Professional.
> It was very high quality and durable.
>
> But, I do not think many of them made jump to the other side of Pacific, I
> have not
> seen any Fujita but some "Belt" brand name. Is there any connection to
> those two?
>
> Anyway, during 60's, Japanese hardly import anything from overseas, because
> they
> had to pay 360 to 400 yean to each dollar while yo pay only 106 yen today.
> This means I had to pay 3 times more money for Brooks saddle at taht time.
> Check Japanese history for currency exchange, they paid 864 yen to British
> one pound in 1970. Today, Japanese Yen worht 4 times better to US dollar
> and
> almost 7.5 times to ritish pound! No wonder they are buying old suff
> back!
>
> Regards to all,
>
> KEN TODA, High Point, NC, 33rd year since I jumped over Pacific Ocean!