I'm looking at a fluted French made ATAX expander type alloy seatpost. Size is 26.4mm. Also marked 01_1986 and so, apparently, off topic. Certainly not Singer and not Herse.
Martin Needleman Annapolis, MD
Donald Gillies wrote:
> My modern (1998 TREK 2300) superbike just split its aluminum seat lug
> at the base of one of the lug ears, and the frameset is ruined. I
> have held a funeral and am sending it to that great crematorium in
> wisconsin for recincarnation as a completely different frameset from
> the bike gods at TREK.
>
> This got me thinking about internal expander seatposts. Jan Heine
> tells me that expander seatposts are an "Alex Singer" exclusive
> feature. Is this really true ?? Did any other maker ever sell
> expander seatposts ?? By this I mean a seatpost that operates upon
> the same principles as a quill stem.
>
> Alas, my bike was 3 tubes carbon and so an expander would probably
> split open the carbon tubes and would therefore not solve my problem.
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA
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