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03-28-16, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by dicken74

Thanks for that link. Very interesting deep dive on saddles. But none of the catologs he has listed the Lycett L'Avenir model. Would still love to find out what years they were in production.

I don't know, but I can speculate!

The Lycett L'Avenir appears to correspond to the Brooks 'Competition' (not to be confused with the B.17 Competition Standard). If you can figure out when they made those, I think you'll know when they made L'Avenir.

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