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that seatpost looks above the minimum insertion line. they are fairly short. check it before it snaps your frame.

looks like murtle's on miche supertype minimum insertion line patrol again.

That frame reminds me of the sex-kitten mental patient that i oft fantasize about.

Careful that the seatpost is in deep enough after you chop it down. It should at the very least, go past the top tube when inside the seat tube.

thanks for the advice - i'm a bit wary of it really doesn't want to go in very far at all.. it's definitely a 27.2mm 'cos it was measured with digital calipers, but if it doesn't look like it's going to go in far enough i might have to look at a 27.0 with an inverse-negative shim..

You might just have to chop a bit off the bottom (and remember that the new min insertion line will be higher than the one marked on it).

Nice bike. Former (Skil-) Skala Gazelle team.
Looks a bit too small for Ralf Elsfhof. Perhaps Ron Groen's bike ?
What size is it?
I may have done the tech. drawing of that frameset. Probably 1985.
You've got to swap the stem!

Yes, his name was on the tt! I will check the size. Probably 57/58ct. The serial unveiled it is probably from 1983.

Go to a bike shop and let them use a (-n adjustable) reamer.
Less than 5 min. work, no need to but a new post, problem solved forever.

thanks for the advice - i'm a bit wary of it really doesn't want to go in very far at all.. it's definitely a 27.2mm 'cos it was measured with digital calipers, but if it doesn't look like it's going to go in far enough i might have to look at a 27.0 with an inverse-negative shim..

thanks DC.. just to clarify, the reamer would ream the inside of the seat stube to ensure that it is 27.2 all the way down?

Yes, his name was on the tt! I will check the size. Probably 57/58ct. The serial unveiled it is probably from 1983.

Yes, that size matches Ron Groen.
Could be 1983, because he was also in Gazelle's amateur team. Then it was resprayed later, when he joined the Skala team.
Gazelle frame numbers are hard to match with a calander year. There's no direct link between frame number and year.
They just numbered the BB-shells before the frames were produced. The numbering was simply ascending from 0, 1, 2, ... 328xxxx, ect...
They had some books to write the serial numbers they used on which date, when putting the numbers into the bb-shells.

thanks DC.. just to clarify, the reamer would ream the inside of the seat stube to ensure that it is 27.2 all the way down?

Yes, correct.
Good bike shops (preferably the old fashioned, where they assemble race bikes themselves, incl facing the head tube and BB-shel, cutting threads) have some reamers to do this.
Either fixed sizes like 27.2mm or adjustable ones for seat tube and steerer tube.
They can ream the tube just as long as the tool is, but that's more than enough to insert the post into the frame.
Usually, the tube's wall thickness only increases near the bb-shell, but the reamer doesn't go into the frame that far.

BINGO!!! Went to Barry the Metal Man this morning and he's sitting there all smug with my frame beside him, sans stuck BB cup! And he only charged me £5 for the priviledge.

So slapped all my former beater bits on it and the Raleigh is ready to roll. Think I might have to swap out the Uber short 50mm stem for something a little less twitchy tho.

Pls excuse the phone cam pic. :)

Oh, and A1astair, that's a hot looking LoPro, just sort that seat post and get riding it!

BINGO!!! Went to Barry the Metal Man this morning and he's sitting there all smug with my frame beside him, sans stuck BB cup! And he only charged me £5 for the priviledge.

So slapped all my former beater bits on it and the Raleigh is ready to roll. Think I might have to swap out the Uber short 50mm stem for something a little less twitchy tho.

Pls excuse the phone cam pic. :)

proper hipster ! are you funking it up norths in that ?

It will be up there for your viewing pleasure!

Oh, and A1astair, that's a hot looking LoPro, just sort that seat post and get riding it!

cheers chap! can't wait to spend all summer cruising the hipster spice routes on it..

Hipster Spice Routes . . . sounds intresting. What kinda spices are we talking about here??

th kind of spice that goes from shoreditch to the west end.

I need details Hoops! Is it Oregano? ;)

it's powdered baby milk.
but the people who buy it will swear that "it's 100% pure Columbian"

bigging up charco's chest for this - from the BLB thread:

hahaha!

Love it! Can I have in random fluro colours with 40mm deep rims please! ;)

Currently working in this baby that I picked up in the Netherlands a couple of weeks ago.
Picture was taken before I started stripping it. Looking forward to take it for a spin though, I'm fond of Gazelle bikes, don't ask me why though.

BINGO!!! Went to Barry the Metal Man this morning and he's sitting there all smug with my frame beside him, sans stuck BB cup! And he only charged me £5 for the priviledge.

So slapped all my former beater bits on it and the Raleigh is ready to roll. Think I might have to swap out the Uber short 50mm stem for something a little less twitchy tho.

Pls excuse the phone cam pic. :)

I love this frame. Nice work.

Is that the original paint? Nice.