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| I promise this is THE seatpost now! |
I will admit I may have a bit of the "Princess and the Pea" syndrome going on here, so please bear that in mind as I detail these changes.
So I had a bunch of issues with the original seatposts I was trying to use with the Honeman Flyer and found out later that one, especially, was undersized. That slipping seat post thing drove me mad for a bit until I settled upon using a PRO Discover post I had when I realized that set-back seat posts weren't unusable with this new single speed bike.
Then the Redshift ShockStop Endurance Pro post came along and next thing ya know I am swapping out seat posts with a "boing factor" left and right for a bit. I really thought I might have settled on the Redshift post, the PRO Race model, actually, but I just never really warm up to sus posts. I guess its the changing saddle height thing. It eventually gets on my nerves and I finally couldn't take it anymore with the Honemann Flyer. Especially because I do seated climbing on it more often than not, and you are mashing teh gear then, of course, which activates the post. Not good for me. (Remember - Princess and the Pea!)
So, I was scrounging around for something and came across my "extra" Salsa titanium Regulator post. Yes! It was an extra one because I have four of them! Anyway, I was appalled that it wasn't being used and as I had a search on for a post for the Honemann Flyer I was only too happy to swap the Redshift post out for this titanium one. Now seated climbing is great!
It's titanium grey, and a bit out of place, maybe, but I don't care at this point. This is THE post now going forward.
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| You cannot really see the stem, but it is different. Oh! And there is another Regulator post! |
Then I had the case of the Singular Gryphon Mk3. Originally I had this bike set up with the Ragley Luxy Bar which determined the full-length housing runs for the brakes and derailleurs. Then I got that Tumbleweed handlebar, which was nice, really wide, and stressed the cable lengths badly.
Eventually even a shorter stem wasn't going to help, and then I got the Redshift Short ShockStop Stem and while I was installing that I decided the Tumbleweed bar had to come off. I was not about to re-cable the entire bike for a wider bar.
So, now I am back to that Luxy Bar and the cables and housings are all happy again. Plus I have the boinger stem on there which makes things extra-comfy. So, there is the Gryphon Mk3 as it stands now.
Time to ride.
Some people complain about slippage on those Salsa posts. Is it a matter of incorrect installation on their part?
ReplyDelete@Ari - I had an issue with my very first Regulator post rotating in the clamp when those posts first came out. The Salsa engineer I ended up communicating with asked me to dry to fit the clamp parts dry - no grease or ti-prep. This is what eventually solved my problem. However, Salsa continued to instruct people to use ti-prep and lubricant to assemble the parts.
ReplyDeleteI assume that because the post instructions tell people to lubricate certain parts of the clamp is why they have issues. ALL four of my posts are assembled dry and unless I come down HARD on the saddle (hard enough to injure myself) my saddles don't move.
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ReplyDeleteYou state "when I realized that set-back seat posts weren't unusable with this new single speed bike." Did you think a 0 offset was the only option becacause of the slack seat angle?
@james - Originally I was contemplating a forward offset seat post for fear I wouldn't get along with a 70 degree seat tube angle. However; I found that not only was that not necessary, but - for myself - the offset rear post actually worked fine.
ReplyDelete@GT,-A few years back, I picked up a used Rivendell Appalousa. It too has a slack seat tube, I belive around 70-71 or so degrees. I thought I wouldn't get along with the relaxed seat angle. Boy was I wrong. I have grown to really like that position. Slack is where it's at...at least for me. It has moved me to get ride of a couple of bikes becasue the seating position was too steep.
Delete@james - Thank you for sharing that. I've heard a similar comment or two from a couple of other people. It makes you wonder if we've gone astray a bit with regard to geometry.
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