I was always afraid of those forks, but the bikes look so much better with them than with any replacement fork I've seen. I'm sure there are some pretty good histories of those bikes out on the web, the companies didn't last long and they were publicity hounds. I was never too impressed by the fact that they pretended to make better bikes than anyone else and yet they blatantly copied many existing parts. My understanding is that was part of their downfall, if they had used standard parts they wouldn't have had to do so much work and probably would have made more money

Ideale made some very nice saddles; they also made some really cheap ones that had very thin leather and it wasn't uncommon to see one that was trying to regain the shape it held while part of a cow. Those probably would be useful again if soaked, reshaped, and laced.