[CR]Reissued vintage saddles?

(Example: Framebuilding:Norris Lockley)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Reissued vintage saddles?
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:33:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
cc: themaaslands@comcast.net

An Incomplete List of On-Topic Saddles that are STILL IN PRODUCTION

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Brooks Professional Rebour (Large Rivets) Brooks Professional (Large Rivets; Small Rivets went out of production ~2005) Brooks B-17 Brooks B-17 Narrow Brooks B-17 Sprinter Brooks Swallow Steel Rails

(Tony Hargrove in the U.K. can rebuild most Brooks and some Ideale saddles.)

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Selle San Marco Concor SuperLeggera Ti (**) (they call it 'Concor Sette Zero' and use a new cover) Selle San Marco Rolls (Black only (**)) Selle San Marco Rolls Ti (Black only (**)) Selle San Marco Regal (Black only (**))

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Persons #77 (B-17 clone, black, honey, green, blue, etc.) Persons Majestic (Brooks Pro clone, black, honey, green, blue, etc.)

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(**) Note that San Marco will make small batches saddles in custom colors if you produce an order of 50 or more saddles. For Red and Blue Regal saddles, http://www.richardsachs.com has done this. For Red Rolls saddles, list member Steve Maasland last year set up an order of 50 saddles, I got (1) Red Rolls, and (1) Sette Zero saddle; you can mix-in production saddles to hit the target of 50.

Importantly, it would probably be possible to put together an order of 50 San Marco Concor Ti saddles with maybe 2 or 3 colors, such as Blue, Yellow, and Red, and no stitching, like the traditional saddles. These are very hot sellers on ebay right now !!

In my opinion, part of the the CR list's mission should be to organize ourselves to offer reproduction items to the whole community. So far it's only been Steve Maasland (saddles) and Robbie Fellowes (Campy Hoods) who have taken the lead in this area.

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA