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> Jon Bond wrote:
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> > "Rich" <
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> >>Jamie wrote:
> >>
> >>>Try looking for a Rockshock post on sale for around 50 .Stay away from
> >
> > the
> >
> >>>thud buster there has been recalls on those seat post.White Bro makes a
> >
> > air
> >
> >>>one but is a little $$ two friends ride the rockshock and like it. Me I
> >
> > went
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> >>>to a Ti and Ti railed saddle on my MT Bike and love it.My road bike has
> >
> > just
> >
> >>>a ti railed saddle and its nice to . Good luck
> >>>
> >>
> >>Be careful with ti seat rails, my experience has been that they to be much less durable than
> >>their steel counterpart.
> >
> >
> > I'm riding a 1.5 year old Flite Gel ti, only replaced the old (1.5 year
old
> > also) one because it was stolen. My road bike has a flite I'd estimate
at 4
> > years oldl, but well cared for. Just be careful with the grips, don't torque 'em down too hard,
> > and make sure they don't have any burrs.
> >
> > Jon Bond
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> >
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> I'm sure they'd be fine on a road bike but my experience is that they aren't very durable for
> mtbing. I snapped one while JRA (just riding along) and "dropped" a curb with my butt on the
> saddle. That one was replaced by warrenty and then I just broke that one the other day as well.
> The second failure was clearly my fault but I firmly beleive that steel rails would have held up
> to the same mishap.
>
> I can't bear to throw away anything ti so now I have a seat laying around that I don't quite know
> what to do with
the "road bike" was actually used for CX racing for a while, albeit with diferent wheels. And the
other ones were on an aluminum hardtail. I have, however, been very careful about the clamp. I
waited until I installed my Thomson seatpost on the mountain bike to put the saddle on, because it
had a much larger clamping surface than the stock seatpost did, and the stock seatpost had a pretty
ugly casting. I also took fine grit sandpaper and very very very slightly radiused the edges; same
as I did with everything that touches the carbon bars. An ounce of prevention saves a pound of
seatpost jamming up your ass.
Jon Bond