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Mike Schmidt Stirling, New Jersey Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 7, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Jon Spangler
<hudsonspangler@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear Tony,
>
> Your post and this thread inspired me to go looking (on the Web) for
> an Ideale catalog, but I have found none. Does anyone have an Ideale
> catalog, or know of a complete saddle-identification and reference
> source? I have a 1970s-vintage (?) Ideale alloy-framed saddle with a
> cutaway (Brooks Swift-like) leather top, probably a Model 89, which
> I had thought it was a 90 until you corrected me. Unfortunately, I
> have never seen any catalogs or product flyers that included this
> wonderfully-comfy (but currently unusable) saddle.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
> Jon Spangler
> Alameda, California USA
> hudsonspangler@earthlink.net
>
>
>
> In the interests of pedantry, and to assist historians who will
> be in
> terrogating the C.R. archives in centuries to come, I think it might
> be h
> elpful to clarify matters regarding these 'late period' Ideale
> saddles.
> The Model 92, which was available in both Gent's and Lady's
> versions
> , 'is often described...as a touring saddle' because that is what
> the mak
> ers called it; originally, I think, it was called 'la Touriste', be
> fore adopting the 'Diagonale' designation in homage to a popular
> Randonnee.
> The Model 88 was quite specifically described by the makers as a
> 'low prof
> ile racing saddle'.
> To re-state the obvious, saddle preferences are an intensely
> subjecti
> ve matter, and I've no doubt that many 'happy campers' have toured
> on 88'
> s - and there may well be some who've raced on 92's, as well?
> Tony Colegrave, Northiam, East Sussex, U.K.