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Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
I'd like to take just a moment to raise a mighty middle finger to the Lobdell Emery Company...
may they RIP.
By far the sheeshiest bicycle saddles ever made by mankind in this country.
Oh yeah the horizontally sprung prewar seat is $ and went on sick bikes...but how
problematic was That? Pans splitting apart, perforated edge deteriorating on and on.
If it was a brilliant idea? We'd see them today in other forms by other manufacturers. Nope.
Cool factor yes. Design factor ...Nope.
So here we have a Postwar Lobdell deep pan saddle... ALMOST tossed this to the trash because
everything sucks on Lobdells products from integrated chassis rails being the opposing "grip" sides to
the clamp? Nope! faint useless stamping that couldn't grip a fly.
To the crappiest of ALL crappy pan studs that literally just 'rip' out of the pans, or come loose in some manner and
dislodge. To the all time Thinnest gauge material used to stamp out the flimsy pans. Lobdell? You Suck @ss!
So here we have this mens 26" postwar saddle. I had the studs welded and reinforced with extra brazing
so they wouldn't do what they typicall ALWAYS do, spin out or break out.
Rechromed the unique to Lobdell Longer profile springs, not cheap these days with insane plating costs
along with everything else. 25 Smackers a spring, ouch!
leather top with the logo embossed and an under pan decal.
There is what looked like a Good quality clamp (more modern 70s or 80s) that fit nicely and with
fresh "teeth" for gripping the chassis rails. The original clamp, like the rest of what Lobdell produced, garbage
and in to the trash it went.
A saddle that showed up on early Postwar Schwinn DX's and Straight bars...never the Cantilever frame
and early Pedestal Light Monark Super Deluxes etc. Maybe some others...who knows... and who cares, it's
LobHell after all.
200 shipped
may they RIP.
By far the sheeshiest bicycle saddles ever made by mankind in this country.
Oh yeah the horizontally sprung prewar seat is $ and went on sick bikes...but how
problematic was That? Pans splitting apart, perforated edge deteriorating on and on.
If it was a brilliant idea? We'd see them today in other forms by other manufacturers. Nope.
Cool factor yes. Design factor ...Nope.
So here we have a Postwar Lobdell deep pan saddle... ALMOST tossed this to the trash because
everything sucks on Lobdells products from integrated chassis rails being the opposing "grip" sides to
the clamp? Nope! faint useless stamping that couldn't grip a fly.
To the crappiest of ALL crappy pan studs that literally just 'rip' out of the pans, or come loose in some manner and
dislodge. To the all time Thinnest gauge material used to stamp out the flimsy pans. Lobdell? You Suck @ss!
So here we have this mens 26" postwar saddle. I had the studs welded and reinforced with extra brazing
so they wouldn't do what they typicall ALWAYS do, spin out or break out.
Rechromed the unique to Lobdell Longer profile springs, not cheap these days with insane plating costs
along with everything else. 25 Smackers a spring, ouch!
leather top with the logo embossed and an under pan decal.
There is what looked like a Good quality clamp (more modern 70s or 80s) that fit nicely and with
fresh "teeth" for gripping the chassis rails. The original clamp, like the rest of what Lobdell produced, garbage
and in to the trash it went.
A saddle that showed up on early Postwar Schwinn DX's and Straight bars...never the Cantilever frame
and early Pedestal Light Monark Super Deluxes etc. Maybe some others...who knows... and who cares, it's
LobHell after all.
200 shipped
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