RE: [CR]The cast aluminum unicanitor saddle

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Subject: RE: [CR]The cast aluminum unicanitor saddle
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 01:02:33 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [CR]The cast aluminum unicanitor saddle
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From: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net>
To: <tsaleh@rocketmail.com>, <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Tarik Saleh wrote:
>
> I have a Cinelli unicanitor
> saddle with what looks like cast aluminum rails. What
> are these called and what is the mating seatpost look
> like? Or is one expected to wedge them in a regular
> post?

Tarik,

I don't know what that saddle is called, but I know they intended them for Campy 1-bolt Super Record posts. They supplied a longer bolt with the saddle to compensate for the taller rails. The supplied bolt was socket (allen) headed and AL alloy.

If you need to find your own bolt to make this work, it's 8Mx1 (8 mm diameter, fine 1.0 mm thread). Length is left as an exercise for the reader.

I used to use them even for regular steel-railed saddles, back when I was a weight-weenie, just to get rid of the original Campy steel boat-anchor of a bolt. This was before I realized that I hate 1-bolt SR posts. (No, in case you're wondering, the AL bolts are not why I hated those posts - but they didn't exactly help me love them any more, either...) Anyway, because others besides me used these Cinelli bolts with other saddles, to save the 2 grams, there is probably a shortage of the bolts - and no doubt, a corresponding slight glut of excess Campy steel bolts.

Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA