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- From: praetzel@maxwell.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Praetzel)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: Selle Italia Flite saddle
- Message-ID: <C1Iro4.Azs@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:43:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: watserv2.C1Iro4.Azs
- References: <105720@netnews.upenn.edu> <1460071@hplred.HPL.HP.COM> <casseres-260193155818@missmolly.apple.com>
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- In article <casseres-260193155818@missmolly.apple.com> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
- >In article <1460071@hplred.HPL.HP.COM>, jbrandt@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Jobst
- >Brandt) wrote:
- >>
- >> 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.
-
- I never noticed the bottoming but after a 1/2 season when I was swapping it
- off my bike (I could not tolerate it for centuries or longer) I did notice
- it. The rails are only about 2/3 the height (guess) and so it is easier
- to bottom them out.
-
- About the breaking. I would not say it conclusively. It certainly is very
- very rare on steel but I have heard of it happening a few times on Ti saddles
- so it _seems_ to be more common. One friend of mine has gone thru 3 sets of
- springs on his Brooks saddle because the all cracked within a few hundred mi
- each. Perhaps quality control was a problem at the beginning?
-
- My biggest beef is the durability (in one season the leather was worn thru
- at the thighs) and comfort. But I find the Vetta Gel to be torture, the
- Turbo to be slightly better (San Marco Regal about the same), a vetta MTB
- gel to be the best of all. The Velo Ti I have (Flite copy) is the least
- comfortable. I got it from a friend who gave up on it after a season.
-
- - Eric
-