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- From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: Selle Italia Flite saddle
- Message-ID: <casseres-260193155818@missmolly.apple.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:03:06 GMT
- References: <105720@netnews.upenn.edu> <1460071@hplred.HPL.HP.COM>
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- In article <1460071@hplred.HPL.HP.COM>, jbrandt@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Jobst
- Brandt) wrote:
- >
- > The Selle Italia Flite saddle is a rebirth of the swallow saddle of
- > old. You can find pictures of it in patent literature and old
- > catalogs. The swallow never got wide acceptance for the same
- > reasons that the Flite and its derivatives will most likely fade
- > away. The Flite bottoms easily on the seat post and, as previous
- > titanium products, has a tendency to break.
-
- Sorry, Jobst, but as you once said to me, it won't wash. You have no
- evidence that the Flite "has a tendency to break"; you have only a
- scattering of reports from the Net. Furthermore, you have perhaps made the
- Flite bottom on the seat post, but you have not made the same test on
- significant numbers of other saddles. There is no science here, and no
- engineering; only smoke.
-
- > The principal savings
- > in weight is that it has no cheeks. The cheeks of a saddle are not
- > there as a styling whim but serve a purpose during various bicycling
- > maneuvers. Rearward thrust is caught by the back of the leg against
- > the curvature of the cheek and when climbing steeply on poor
- > traction, the legs steady the bike laterally against the cheeks
- > while the rider rises slightly above the saddle.
-
- More smoke. Are you really trying to tell us that the bike is kept upright
- by the rider pushing on the side of the seat with the back of his leg??????
- Really, Jobst.
-
- --
-
- David Casseres
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