Originally Posted by
fietsbob
FWIW Avocet components were made by Ofmega, in Italy, their saddles By Selle Italia. have a Avocet Race 2, indistinguishable from Turbos, but for the nylon shell having a thinner portion under the sit bones (their Patent)
A bit OT but I'm also a big fan of Avocet saddles. I have O2 Men's versions on all of my bikes and three spares on the shelf.
Avocet is another story of a company having a great market presence and then squandering it. Their Model 20 cyclecomputer was the first really good one but the follow on models got expensive, quality slipped badly, the M 50 "Altimeter" version never worked right and they lost their place to Cat-Eye and several others.