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01-07-2010, 05:10 AM
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Cannot contact Heilman saddle and seat company in Austin, Texas. Their pages do not open and email comes always back. Need a new seat, ok have to call - hate speaking in phone with foreign people
-E
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01-07-2010, 06:04 AM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: indiana
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i've heard www.worshamcastle.com is the best. call over there.
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01-07-2010, 10:34 AM
| | CAIMag Author | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Everett, Washington
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Lots of great 'foreign' people on this list right here. Keep in mind that to them, we Yankee types are foreign. Most important: we are all enthusiasts for vintage bikes, and that unites us in shared lunacy.
Walt
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01-07-2010, 06:19 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: new britain pa
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i think erppa ment his english is not that well
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01-10-2010, 02:01 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Finland
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Rob, You are right, I have a trouple in my ears, dont´hear well and that makes "foreign" languages difficult to me to understand, specially on the phone. Reading is ok, listening is terrible because it so easy to misunderstand.
Walt, I´m sorry if didnt wrote clear, I´ve lot of friends around the World and different cultures are beautiful rischness, I think.
Talbot, thaks, we have tried that adress couple of time with different pc:s, didnt work here, wonder why because it did last autum. I´ll call...
Erppa
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02-08-2010, 08:07 AM
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Erppa
you can contact me with any of your saddle needs
I might help
I'm in EU
oklaszeski***@***gmail.com
remove stars from address
Best regards
MOA
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02-08-2010, 10:56 AM
|  | CAIMag Author | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: North Hills/Pine Grove, CA
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I don't know why anybody would want to do business with Heilman. There are enough stories on this site and the clubs site to make me stay far far away from them. www.worshamcastle.com is the king of the mountain for seat quality, correctness, and service. Besides that he is a nice guy too.
Here is a link to a thread showing a sample of Heilman's latest work. http://www.antiquemotorcycle.org/bbo...hlight=heilman
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02-08-2010, 12:29 PM
|  | CAIMag Author | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Winter Garden, Fla.
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The ol' man, Howard Heilman, did great work. I had more than one seat he did for me, and they were beautiful. And Howard was always put customer satisfaction foremost.
Unfortunately, his son, Larry, is apparently not up to the job. Not cut from the same skin, you might say, and has been known to express his disappointment in the reviews he gets by taking it out on his customers. It's all his customers' fault. Of course. Like Chris says, the laundry's all been aired over on the AMCA forum. Several different incidents were reported, and discussed exhaustively.
There are several others who do excellent seat work and stand behind it. Michael, "Worsham Castle" is one. I also had great work done by Heather's Leathers, a good ol' boy, also from the Carolinas, who follows the National Meet circuit.
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02-22-2010, 04:27 AM
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Many questions has got answers, I´ve turned to another craftsman. Thanks for good tips and mails.
-E
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