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I've got to concede it's a tad too big for little old me

Ha, a park tools hacksaw no less. Only the best...

Weirdly, one of the first hacksaws googled showed me

I refuse to believe Neil was ever flexible enough to ride this

I never actually saw him ride it!

A Talbot for every day of the week, I think?

Maybe this was number 8

😂 And a Serotta for every day the following week?

Kleins for leap years?

Too big for me, the one I covet is JB's now in @Amey possession

That’s lovely... think it’ll be a bit too big for me so GLWS!

@acliff might be able to ID the cranks?

Luckily this is way to big for me, beauty of a bike.
GLWS

The bike looks lovely. Have you chopped the ISP down a little from the original pictures or did you remove the spacers (if there was any)? I normally have a saddle height of 782mm so would be keen to understand if the height could be increased.

Hi. Yeah chopped it a little bit to get to my saddle height. So it's sat on the top of the ISP currently. I guess it could be raised up again, but honestly not sure if the clamp would hold it in place in the same way a seat post is held. Or if some spacers (I was thinking headset spacers) could be inserted if it did slip?

Thanks for the nice comments all. Yeah it's a lovely thing.

Not sure what height you all are but I'm only 5'9" with a short body and long legs and it's close to fitting me. Just my other bike fits me better. The seat mast can be trimmed if it's too high for others.

Bugger, I would have bought it if the seatpost had not been cut so low.

Ah shame, thanks for the interest though. I only took about 1.5cm off, but I guess that's pretty much exactly what you needed left on it. It's still pretty high for most people who would fit this I think. I'm sure it'll work for someone. 🤞

I machined a PVC T shaped spacer for my identical Talbot ISP gravel bike to raise the saddle height slightly.... was basically just a circular spacer, with a 5mm wall thickness, and a 20mm deep stepped lip that sat inside the ISP.

It also made for a much more forgiving ride off road, as I used a fairly soft PVC bar stock so it acted as a damper between the seatpost and the seatpost topper.

(I totally stole the idea from Look E-Post’s)

Very simple if you have a lathe.

I'll have a look in to it as Giant use ISP spacers to raise the height too. I think they just rest on top without a lip.

I don't suppose you still have the 1.5cm bit that you cut off?

Ha sorry, no I don't. My LBS did it.

I've just removed the topper to see if a headset spacer fits and frustratingly all the ones I have are fractionally too wide. They almost sit flush with the outside of the topper, and therefore obviously don't fit inside. Probably wouldn't be beyond someone with skills (and a lathe) like @hoops has pointed out to make something that would work.

I don't have Vernier calipers for an accurate measurement but the crude ISP diameter measurement I could take with my tape measure says 32mm. The LBS have done a nice job of a clean square cut.

and you shall have it, you know what I am like ;)