The badged Simplex posts with integrated clamp were designed for normal round cross-section steel rails. The aluminum railed Ideale saddles used "I beam" rails that were much deeper in the vertical direction. The Al saddles will not even come close to fitting the badged posts. They used straight posts with a special Ideale clamp made to fit the AL rails. I now have three of the Ideale AL railed saddles.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: Carb7008@cs.com <Carb7008@cs.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Simplex Post and Ideale Al Saddle
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 9:30 PM
\r?\n> Just an observation: I was considering spiffing-up my
\r?\n> newly-acquired 60's
\r?\n> Peugeot PL?10 by replacing tube seat-pin with badged
\r?\n> Simplex. But it
\r?\n> appears that these posts with integral clamp may not work
\r?\n> with Al-framed
\r?\n> Ideale's...is this true? Do Al-framed Ideale's
\r?\n> require a different model
\r?\n> Simplex-badged post or must they be used with plain pin and
\r?\n> Al-specific separate clamp?
\r?\n> If so, I imagine this is because Al-framed Ideales
\r?\n> pre-date Simplex-badged
\r?\n> posts?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Anyone ever see a Simplex-badged post married to an
\r?\n> Al-framed Ideale?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Jack Romans
\r?\n> Sacramento, CA