At 10:35 PM 10/18/96 -0400, you wrote:
>This is my first post on ridecamp, so if I screw this up, my apologies. I
>was curious about Bonnie Snodgrass comments on the Sports Saddle "front
> fork" as I recently bought my 2nd Sports Saddle and found it to be much
> narrower and STIFFER than my first saddle. I bought my first SS in 1993
>and I loved it. However, I had a 16 in. seat made instead of a 15.5 seat
> which truly fits me better. The increase in seat size made the saddle much
>longer, which was alright then, but now I ride a different horse with a much
>shorter back and so I was forced to sell my saddle and get a new one. When
>I ordered the saddle I told my distributor and the people at Horse Works that
>I did not want the "front fork " of my saddle to be narrow and stiff like
>the new modles but I wanted it to be wider and flexible like the endurance
>model I bought in 1993. They all thought I was crazy. They insisted that
>they have not changed anything in the manufacturing of the saddle . I
>explained that the first model didn't have fleece and this one did and so
>on and so on and so on. They told me I was "thinking" it was stiffer
> because this one was shorter.....not so. I would have liked to have a
>video of the 2 saddles together showing the difference, but I had to send
>it off to its' new home before the other came in. I guess this all means
>that if you are thnking of buying a Sports Saddle ( which I do Love) don't
> ride in or look at any of the older years. Look for the ones with the
>fleece backing , so you can compare apples to apples so to speak.
> Kathy
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Alice and Shawn Steinke and Willie (for BP)in
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Kittie, Willie's personal secretary)
Stand aside you other candidates.
GET A NEW LEASH ON LIFE--WIN WITH ROMMEL AND WILLIE
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