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Old 08-20-2018, 05:19 AM
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Finish second in a race...without a saddle

https://www.velonews.com/2018/08/new...-saddle_475053

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“When we got to the last kilometer, I got on the pedals to take a curve among the first few riders because I knew I had to be there,” he said. “When I went to sit down after the curve, I didn’t have a saddle.”
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Old 08-20-2018, 06:38 AM
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He's got nothing on Cindy Whitehead!

http://sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/whitehead.htm

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Old 08-20-2018, 06:48 AM
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He's got nothing on Cindy Whitehead!

http://sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/whitehead.htm

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Rode 50 miles without a saddle!!??

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Old 08-20-2018, 06:49 AM
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Must have gotten the seatpost at the Co-Op
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Old 08-20-2018, 07:23 AM
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…..and the bike was 200 grams lighter, although slightly less vertically compliant.
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Old 08-20-2018, 08:36 AM
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That's not a bike with a saddle that fell off...

It's just a direct-mount seatpost.
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