Selle Italia Flite - Genuine or Fake?

[chickenbones]

Hi,

I found the attached on eBay, which is listed as a refurbed Ti Flite. It mostly looks legit to me, except there's no date stamp on the bottom. The seller (100% feedback) has told me it is a flite and that he doesn't know why the date stamp is missing, but I was hoping someone could tell me definitively? Thanks.

 

[troje]

Looks pretty genuine to me

 

[27motorhead]

Hmmm...
This is the listing?
https://bit.ly/3iiGvlx
On eBay you can zoom in on the photos and to me it looks like date stamp under the nose did have the text there - you can see slight remains of it. I can only assume at some stage it looks like the plastic has been cleaned by something pretty aggressive that has melted/softened the plastic? It wouldn't have come out the factory/tooling like that. Maybe it's a later re-issue and they're hiding that fact?

 

[chickenbones]

Hmmm...
This is the listing?
https://bit.ly/3iiGvlx
On eBay you can zoom in on the photos and to me it looks like date stamp under the nose did have the text there - you can see slight remains of it. I can only assume at some stage it looks like the plastic has been cleaned by something pretty aggressive that has melted/softened the plastic? It wouldn't have come out the factory/tooling like that. Maybe it's a later re-issue and they're hiding that fact?

Yep, that's the one. Thanks, and thanks @troje, that's good enough for me.

 

[27motorhead]

Yep, that's the one. Thanks, and thanks @troje, that's good enough for me.

@chickenbones forgot to say it does look genuine! Just has some suspicious/over zealous cleaning of the date mark!

 

[hookooekoo]

I bought the Flite Titanium saddle below from a reputable shop in the 1990s, new in a box, so almost certainly genuine. I used to have the box, but unfortunately I think it may have been thrown away.

Date marking



Selle Italia marking

 

[hookooekoo]

NOS for $250

https://www.retro-gression.com/products/nos-selle-italia-flite-saddl

 

[Hotwheels.]

Maybe it's a later re-issue and they're hiding that fact?

It’s an original for sure, the re-issue models have deeper rails so can be spotted a mile off.