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Shimmed seatposts, yay or nay?
I've had good luck with them on rigid posts, but I'd check that whatever shim you use is as long as the seatpost manufacturer's recommended minimum insertion for a suspension post as they're likely to be much more fussy about any elastic bendage.
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they're likely to be much more fussy about any elastic bendage.
Are you thinking about telescopic suspension posts here? I’m looking at parallelogram ones as I want to avoid the rotational play that’s present in the bouncy dropper I have. The clamped shaft of a parallelogram type post would surely be equivalent to a rigid post?
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Shimmed seatposts, yay or nay?
I’ve had an Orange P7 that came shimmed from the factory and my Raleigh twenty has a seattube that’s swaged down to size only for the top 1”/1 ½” so kind of the same amount of contact as a shimmed one and both of these were/are fine.
I’m looking for a suspension post for my gravel bike and being able to buy a 27.2mm one instead of the 31.6mm that the frame natively takes would open up a few more options.