Re: [CR] SR Laprade Four'Sir Seat Pin ? - Catalog Scan

From: "Kerrigan Bennett" <kerriganbennett@comcast.net>
To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:57:20 -0800
Thread-Topic: [CR] SR Laprade Four'Sir Seat Pin ? - Catalog Scan
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Subject: Re: [CR] SR Laprade Four'Sir Seat Pin ? - Catalog Scan

Found the SR Sakae catalog scan under a new url: http://cyclotourist.web.fc2.com/special_25.html

Enjoy.

Kerrigan Bennett Pleasant Hill, CA USA

_____________________________________________ From: Kerrigan Bennett [mailto:kerriganbennett@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 5:51 AM To: 'classicrendezvous@bikelist.org' Subject: Re: [CR] SR Laprade Four'Sir Seat Pin ?

There were Four Sir handlebars in at least two different "bends," as well. There used to be scans of an SR Sakae catalog posted on a Japanese website, but I see this morning that the url is not working. Wayne Bingham has some photos of these components on a wooljersey.com page: http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/Wayne-Bingham/SR/ I have an ESL stem and matching seat post in the "spares" stash. They are beautiful, but so light that I'm a bit wary of using them (particularly the stem).

I am currently using a Four Sir post on a daily rider and it is a very nice post.

Kerrigan Bennett Pleasant Hill, CA USA

Archive-URL: http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=classicrendezvous.11002.0908.eml Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:19:41 -0800 From: donald gillies <gillies(AT)ece.ubc.ca> Subject: Re: [CR] SR Laprade Four'Sir Seat Pin ?<http://search.bikelist.org/query.asp?SearchString=%22SR+Laprade+Four%27Sir+Seat+Pin+%3F%22&SearchPrefix=%40msgsubject&SortBy=MsgDate%5Ba%5D>

I think that "Four Sir" was the model line that SR introduced to replace their "Royal" parts, in the early 1980's. The Four'Sir seatposts are arguably better than Campagnolo Super Record posts, as they are lighter (< 220 gm) and they don't slip AT ALL. They are nicely fluted and beautifully anodized. If the black plastic bands are removed they are hard to tell from Campagnolo SR. Baron Corpuz offered these stems for years at a bargain price. Here is a picture:

http://ebay.com/<blah>

There were also Four'Sir stems with black circular labels, but I don't think that Four'Sir cranks or pedals or handlebars were ever introduced.

SR Four'Sir replaced SR Royal SL parts which competed with Campagnolo Super Record.

The ultimate parts from SR were SR Royal Extra Super Light (ESL) parts which had no equal, they were one notch above Campagnolo Super Record. They were marked by chromed world class circular bands taped around each part (stems, seatposts, crank arms.) They came with all-titanium hardware (the drilled-out stems weigh only 210 grams, the cranksets had SR-logo titanium chainring bolts and plastic caps and titanium crankset spindles and alloy cups.)

The chainring pattern for SR Royal ESL looks like super record, but the rings were lightened so that there were scallops or flares near the chainring bolts (if you think about cutting out the inner spider with a cut that goes not towards the spindle but towards the adjacent spider tang, you can figure out the look.)

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA