[CR]Brookes saddles and split rivets

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From: "Norris Lockley" <norris.lockley@talktalk.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:31:41 -0000
Subject: [CR]Brookes saddles and split rivets

Chuck Schmidt wrote:

"Split or Bifurcated

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

Touche! Chuck..but I did qualify my description by saying "two-legged split". Something that is split can have more than two legs, sections, portions..so hence in posh parlance I suppose that on this side of the Atlantic we would call a four-legged split rivet a quadrifurcate one..or even a quadrilobate one..or more elaborately a quadrigeminous one.

Norris Lockley..Settle UK