Panter
Just call me Chris...
- Location
- Sittingbourne, Kent
02GF74 said:the seat tube welded on to one side is always going to be vulnerable to snapping.
I've had 2 posts snap on me - the last time I was climbing up a hill, then next thing I am on the ground behind the bike. the jagged end of post scraped my inner thigh but it could have been a lost worse - there is a big artery somewhere round there.
incidentally, that is same post design as on proflex - they have a little bump inside the seat tube to prevent andy chance of the post slipping down and into the shock.
I guess drilling a small hoke and fitting a bolt would serve the same purpose.
The trouble is that I want to be able to lower my seat for descents.
It's all fine at the moment but if the seat does slip it will destroy the shock.
So far the only thing I've thought of is fitting a clamp to the seatpost itself to stop it slipping past a setpoint and hitting the shock, until I can scrape the pennies together for a gravity dropper anyway.