Re: [CR]Fw: Rrooks saddles and split rivets

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From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Fw: Rrooks saddles and split rivets
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:09:40 -0800
To: CR RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Norris Lockley wrote:
> The two legged split rivets did turn up on some cheaper leather
> saddles
> in the 50s.
>
> Over this side of the Atlantic , the rivets are known to the better-
> off
> serious collectors as " Bifurcated"... Lovely name...just rolls of the
> tongue..but tends to sound quite rude when spoken by a native of
> Cornwall or Devon!

Split or bifurcated.

One man's double tapered seat stays are another man's biconical...

Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, Southern California
United States of America
http://www.velo-retro.com (reprints, t-shirts & timelines)