Re: [CR]seat post size

(Example: Racing:Wayne Stetina)

Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:34:03 -0800 (PST)
From: "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]seat post size
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <45AE77BD.7000907@usc.edu>


Unfortunately, you have to take that as applicable to a particular PX-10. I think that if we measured all the PX-10s owned by CR list members, you would find plenty of them also using 26.6mm set posts. I wouldn't be surprised if 26.6 were the more prevalent size. But who knows for sure?
     Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)


--- Rich Pinder wrote:


> I'm sure it'll be a race for all of us to point you to
> Sheldons
> excellent resource for these diameters.... here it is, and
> it looks
> like... 26.4 !
> http://sheldonbrown.com/seatpost_sizes.html#p
>
> rich pinder
> van nuys, CA
>
>
> gabriel l romeu wrote:
> > Anybody have any idea of the proper diameter seatpost for
> an early
> > 70's nervex lugged px10? I get a multitude of measurements
> from 26mm
> > to 26.75mm using my digital calipers .
> > And, anyone have one a bit long?
> > may not have access after friday through wednesday
> btw...thanks
> >
> > Bob Hanson wrote:
> >> It's not quite so simple, especially if you include metric
> (French)
> >> tubing. Example: for double-butted 531 the French outer
> tube diameter
> >> was 28.0mm versus 28.6, so the same thickness of tubing
> which
> >> would use a 27.2 seatpost for British, etc. frames would
> use 26.6
> >> mm post in French DB531 tubing.
> >
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