Avocet Bicycle Saddles

Avocet saddles & accessories on this page: Racing II | O2 Air 40R TI with titanium rails | Women's Touring II | Gelflex saddle badge

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Avocet was started in the 1970s by Bernie Hoffacker and his sons Bud and Neal. The Hoffackers were owners of the highly-regarded Northern California bicycle shop Palo Alto Bicycles. In the late 1970s they developed a prototype small cycle computer. Being in Silicon Valley they were able to find expertise to refine it into what would become the most popular cycle computer ever, the Avocet 30. Greg LeMond used one, as did whole European teams such as Panasonic. Even Ironman triathlon winner Dave Scott used an Avocet computer.

For a while, they were everywhere. Avocet says that in the 1989 and 1990 Tours de France, 80% of the riders using a cyclometer were using one made by Avocet.

Early Avocet saddles came with one of these bags.

Avocet expanded its offering to include tires, saddles and other accessories. The company at some point changed hands and though there is an Avocet web site, the firm appears to be dormant.

Avocet made very well-regarded saddles. Here's exhibit A

Exhibit B

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Avocet Racing II saddle. New, $150.00/each

Part# 40105

• We have two in stock.
• Produced late 1970s - early 1980s

Side view

From behind

From above, to show its shape.

The saddle's underside. Note we still have its original hang tag.

Close-up of the hang tag.

Here's the other side of the hang tag.

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Avocet O2 Air 40R TI saddle with titanium rails. Lightly used, $100.00/each

Side view

The other side of the saddle

From behind

The saddle's underside. Note the "Titanium" label on one of the rails.

Abit of scuffing in the leather cover on one side.

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Avocet Women's Touring II saddle. Used.

• Produced in the 1980s
• For greater comfort, the women's saddles are wider at the back and have shorter noses.
• The Avocet Touring saddles had raised padded bumps with the shell slightly thinned under the bumps to increase comfort.
• Made in Italy.

We have three: #1 | #2 | #3

Avocet Women's Touring II saddle #1. Used, $75.00/each

Very little use

Here it is flipped around

And from behind

Close-up

Avocet Women's Touring II saddle #2. Used, $75.00/each

View 1

View 2, the other side of the saddle

View 3, from behind

Avocet Women's Touring II saddle #3. Used, $75.00/each

Side view

From the front

Top view

From underneath

Made in Italy.

Avocet was awarded patents for it's industry-changing designs.

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Avocet Gelflex Saddle Badge. Used, $5.00/each

View one

View two. To give a sense of the the badge's size, here it is photographed above a centerpull straddle cable yoke.

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