FS: Dura Ace DA9100 chainset / Hylix carbon seatpost

• Dura Ace 172.5mm chainset, 52/36. Bought them on here for £160 and never fitted them. Looking to recoup. £160 SOLD
  
  

(The longest of shots, but I’d also swap for the same in 165mm)

• Brand new never installed Hylix carbon seatpost 27.2, 5mm offset. Thought I’d read on here these were generally a decent go to. Too finicky for me though, really hard to adjust saddle angle. Paid £58 delivered, can’t be bothered returning to China etc, anyone else with more patience fancy it? £40
  
  

No posting yet, will try collection only (based in Clapton E5) or willing to meet close. Based around Monument / Cannon Street some weekdays too.

Pics coming now.

Chainset

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Seatpost.

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Are the cranks still available?

Hey Stuart, yep feel free to PM

Is the seatpost still available and if so what size rails is the clamp for?

Ah sorry missed that. 7mm (not carbon rails). Yep still available

Ah no good for me then unless I can find the clamps from my old cracked post

No probs.

But seriously how do people get these things to work?? Is there a knack I’m missing?! As soon as you start to tighten and the ‘cups’ engage, it’s pretty hard to rotate to adjust the angle.

Please don’t be offended when I ask… but are you greasing the interface between the cups and the post? Apologies in advance!

Edit - just to be clear, grease cups, do up bolts finger tight then tilt saddle to desired angle then torque up the bolts.

It’s really hard to move even when just finger tight?

Ha no worries at all. It’s already got carbon paste on it, I didn’t grease it cos I’ve read these can slip, and hence the carbon paste which was already on it. Instructions may have even said, don’t grease, I think.

To be honest, I didn’t try mega hard, I tried sticking a saddle on ,(without the post inserted on a bike), and it was a faff and I prob gave up after 15 mins cos I could already anticipate I wasn’t going to be able to fine tune once actually installed. I should prob give it another go but I hate messing with my saddle, got it just right at the moment. The thought of taking my saddle off current post, switching this out, trying to get it right and failing, then having to revert to current post is daunting.

There’s carbon paste between the cups and post?
Does the post have a metal insert that the cups press up against or are they pressing into bare carbon?

On the Specialized post, it has an alloy insert bonded into the frame, so it’s a metal on metal interface hence the grease. I’d maybe wrongly assumed this post has the same bonded insert?

But if it’s clamping down into carbon then the carbon paste would make sense!

If it doesn’t look like this photo then my method might not apply. But changing the angle might be easier with the post in the bike to get a bit more leverage.

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Am away at the moment but almost certain it’s just bare carbon…

Ah sorry, ignore me then!

Cranks sold. Cheers @StuartHodson good to meet you