27.2 seatpost with ~40 mm setback?

David Scheidt

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Mar 12, 2012, 10:57:57 AM3/12/12

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Is there a 27.2 seat post with about 40 or 50 mm setback?
Bonus if it comes in black.

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russell...@yahoo.com

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Mar 12, 2012, 2:26:47 PM3/12/12

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http://dannyscycles.com/product/easton-ec70-seatpost-27.2mm-diameter-6209.htm

OLD Easton EC70 seatpost. This link says 10mm setback. That is
wrong. Not sure it has the 40-50mm setback you want. But it has
about as much setback as you will find.

http://www.fullspeedahead.com/products/234/K-Force-Light-SB32-seatpost

32mm setback for this FSA seatpost.

(PeteCresswell)

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Mar 12, 2012, 4:42:06 PM3/12/12

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Per David Scheidt:

>Is there a 27.2 seat post with about 40 or 50 mm setback?
>Bonus if it comes in black.

I'm not sure if I am measuring it the official way, but my (old)
Titec "HellBent" post (black...) seems to have about 50mm of
setback.
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Pete Cresswell

Sergio Moretti

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Mar 13, 2012, 10:07:47 PM3/13/12

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On Mar 12, 9:57 am, David Scheidt <dsche...@panix.com> wrote:

Check out the [Nitto Lugged seat post 27.2 x 250] sold by Rivendell
(rivbike.com).
It's interesting though not cheap or Black.

Cheers,
Sergio Moretti

Sergio Moretti

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Mar 13, 2012, 10:15:17 PM3/13/12

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Set back: distance from intersection of seat tube centerline & seat
rail(s) to center of clamp (also along seat rail).
Much easier to show on paper versus with words. Might be difficult to
measure with your seat post!

- Sergio

Chalo

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Mar 15, 2012, 4:37:49 AM3/15/12

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David Scheidt wrote:
>
> Is there a 27.2 seat post with about 40 or 50 mm setback?
> Bonus if it comes in black.

I used to turn ~20mm setback posts into ~50mm setback posts pretty
routinely. Then I discovered Thomson posts.

Chalo

Chalo

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Mar 15, 2012, 4:40:57 AM3/15/12

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Sergio Moretti wrote:
>
> Check out the [Nitto Lugged seat post 27.2 x 250] sold by Rivendell
> (rivbike.com).
> It's interesting though not cheap or Black.

Wow, only $200. I thought Rivendell could do better than that at
solving a $20 problem.

Chalo

datakoll

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Mar 15, 2012, 10:40:57 AM3/15/12

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try sorting thru Universal Cycles collection.

4 years ago, I bought UC's longest, the longest I found. UH, without looking thru the rear compartment, I believe its a Ritchie with a wacko 2 bar/4 unobtainable screw mount.

I have seen tubing bent from the muff shop.....

datakoll

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Mar 15, 2012, 10:43:21 AM3/15/12

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ok ok how does Chalo lengthen a 20 to a 60 ?

Hank

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Mar 15, 2012, 11:00:37 AM3/15/12

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By bending it when he hits a bump.

I did that with the stock post on my GT Avalanche back when I weighed 300lbs.

Chalo

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Mar 15, 2012, 6:31:49 PM3/15/12

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Hank wrote:

>
> datakoll wrote:
> >
> > Chalo wrote:
> > >
> > > David Scheidt wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is there a 27.2 seat post with about 40 or 50 mm setback?
> > > > Bonus if it comes in black.
> > >
> > > I used to turn ~20mm setback posts into ~50mm setback posts pretty
> > > routinely. Then I discovered Thomson posts.
> >

> > ok ok how does Chalo lengthen a 20 to a 60 ?
>
> By bending it when he hits a bump.
>
> I did that with the stock post on my GT Avalanche back when I weighed 300lbs.

With some steel posts, I'd even turn them around after the first
episode so that the next one would bend them back. (Ductile steel
gets stronger each time, up to a point.)

I learned that the best way to cope was often to make my own from a
solid rod of aluminum. The best-best way was to use a bike frame that
didn't need a long post.

Chalo

datakoll

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Mar 15, 2012, 9:44:36 PM3/15/12

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a solid rod.

I was in big troublem bending over to the original post on muh English Raleigh so I rode down the street into West Palm Beach BICYCLERY
(561.684.8444) to whine about it, nothing in stock but come back in a day or two and !!!! new custom stem to height. Complkete with coffee nook and Nookies, the B has a machine shop as YellowJersey/Chalo & Co.

and Chalo.....why not a poster photo of Chalo in jerseys ?