Well, as often happens, one might find that such items were first made in the 1890's, but as far as more recent history, Dura Ace AX may have been the first in the early 80's. They actually had three different aero posts. Two were aero shaped their entire length to fit aero shaped seat tubes. The one I have fits a Tange aero tubeset, not sure what the other aero tube set was that AX matched. The third DA AX post was round below the insertion point but aero above like the later Campy C-Record. Perhaps C-Record also was made in a full-length aero version, as I believe Columbus briefly made an aero tubeset.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
"Watts, Gary J (Vancouver, WA USA)" <gary.watts@hp.com> wrote: I don't know about "absolutely first" but the first one I know of is the C-Record in the mid 80's from Campy. Still one of the most beautiful seatposts made IMO.
Gary Watts Vancouver, WA
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of gholl@optonline.net Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:11 AM To: Classic Rendezvous Subject: [CR]Question(restated): Aero seatposts
Question: when was the aero seatpost introduced and by what manufacturer? Thanks for any information.
George
(George Hollenberg MD)
CT, USA