I’ve got an ancient Titec Beserker saddle that’s ripped up and generally not very nice to sit on. Obvioulsy its destined for the bin, but can the ti rails be recycled? Does anyone take old saddle rails (and shells) and re-cover them?

Strip all the padding off for that über light xc racer look 8)

Keep it, you’ll kick yourself when you find out you need it.

Recover of course!

Retrobike thread on saddle recovering

hello, I’ll have a go at recovering saddles if you’re letting it go for a nice price?

I had one of those saddles, took it down to the tip with a load of other old nackered bike stuff..

That Retrobike thread has inspired me. I just recently retired a WTB Laser SLT saddle due to the cover being worn through on a few of the edges. So tore off the old cover tonight. Tested some Elmers spray adhesive that I had around; don’t think that it is strong enough, though. Will look for leather, glue, etc. next time I’m out.

Ive recovered a few saddles before. Contact adhesive is good for it. depending on the shape at the rear of the saddle you might have to watch out for kinks in the leather and definitely definitely dont get leather that is too thick

I’ve got a Selle Italia SLR Ti saddle sat at home doing nothing, its in good condition too, not sure whether its worth anything for sale though.

Ordered some leather from ebay for $7.50 which should be enough to do 2 saddles. Went a huge craft store (an extremely scary, very female oriented environment) and got a tube of contact adhesive.

I plan to use a spray adhesive on most of the saddle, and the contact adhesive to secure the edges.

Would generally moist and muddy condititons not kill the adhesive quite rapidly? Genuine question – not trolling.

^ maybe not, i’ve used 3M spray adhesive for foam grips on ti bars and they don’t move, ever. superglue and uhu both failed before that.

also, seamgrip is fantastic stuff for outdoor + fabric use – thermarest repair kits use it and it’s saved my torn rucsacs, holey thermarest (9 repaired holes now!), unglued saddles etc.

Both the spray adhesive and contact cement that I plan to use are solvent (not water) based, so I’m not expecting any problems.

How about re-railing – anyone made one good saddle out of two dodgy ones?