Re: [CR]Source of straight posts

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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:15:09 -0400
From: "Steve Maas" <stevem@mail.nonlintec.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Source of straight posts


The Kalloy ones are OK as general-purpose replacements, but they're aluminum, not exactly period-correct for a 1950s bike. I'd like to find a source of steel ones, even if unfinished or just painted. I can get them plated.

Here, there are so many abandoned, old bikes that it would seem easy to obtain quite a stash of seatposts: just walk around town and pull the suckers out of the trashed bikes. Unfortunately, a lot of seemingly abandoned bikes are still in use here (http://www.nonlintec.com/ireland/ -- pix about halfway down the page), so the owners might get a little annoyed if one were to pull their seatposts. Admittedly, there is a well established tradition of stealing seatposts here on the college campus, but in spite of that, it's really not a good thing to do.

Of course, you guys in the US can just buy a bike at Wal-Mart, pull the post, and throw the rest of the goddam thing away.

Steve Maas
Dublin, Ireland


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Sheldon Brown
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:59:46 -0400


>Jerome or Elizabeth Moos wrote:

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\r?\n>>Anyone know of a source for straight post seatposts in a good

\r?\n>>selection of sizes?

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\r?\n>See:

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