Originally Posted by FBOATSB

One plan of attack, if you would indulge me for a moment, would be for you to PM me a shipping address so I can send you a 70's vintage B-72 with chrome rails for cost of shipping. The leather is pretty sketchy but the frame is good.

Do you know they sell an adaptor for these to fit single rail seat posts?
(Single or two bolt posts)

Originally Posted by Road Fan

I have a 50 year old B72 with a badly stretched leather top. If we we share the key dimensions and verify it will fit, perhaps you could just transfer your saddle top over. You’d need to buy a set of the right rivets. Ridden by my wife, who has never been an Athena. She now likes a B17 Select, but that’s on a roadish/gravelish bike. The B72 was on her 1970 Raleigh Sport.

This way you’d get a new nose tightening gizmo set and a set of additional used OEM rivets.