Re: [CR]seat question

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:16:39 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]seat question
References: <200702100448.l1A4mHsW003077@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200702100448.l1A4mHsW003077@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>


Donald Gillies wrote:
> Walter Nash wrote:
>
>> (snip) I am a bit concerned about getting a 25+ year
>> old NOS saddle with dead foam.
>
> Haaahaaa. My padded Cinelli Unicanitor is, today, the same
> ass-splitting butt-welt-generator that it was when i acquired the
> Schwinn paramount in 1980.
>
> I have some 80's turbos that work just fine on daily riders.

I recently retired an Avocet saddle that had given me nearly 30 years of hard service on my commuter bike. It wasn't the foam that failed, but the leather. It had literally eroded through to the foam in several areas under the "sitz-bones."

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA