Don't you hate it when bikes are made with different size things in other countries

like my dura ace equipped italian frame that has to use a 25mm seat post, and as a result has a loner campag one sitting there... STARING AT ME..

google did bring to my attention that there IS a dura ace SP-7400 B TYPE post sporting 25mm goodness BUT these seem to be as rare as a 7mm allen key.

i know where there is one.

^just realised how bad that title is... oops.

BUT on second thoughts - if it doesnt exist already this could be THE place to add similar tales of wackness whereby shit just doesnt fit because it wasnt from land X... perhaps?

i thought this was going to be about french bikes.
quick ebay serch found a few that just ended.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SHIMANO-DURA-ACE-SEAT-POST-25MM-

dura ace equipped italian frame i guess, if you must.

I have a 25mm durace seatpost which I think is too small for my frame. I need to take the frame to my LBS so they can use a seatpost gauge and I can try and do this wednesday. PM me if you would want it if they confirm its too small.

ahaH! i always forget about dem completed listings... thanks loaf!

^_^ bigben that'd be ace!

Cool I'll keep you posted. I bought it for my look as the web said 25mm but it feels a bit sloppy...

I'm snowed under with work so it might not happen wednesday, pm a reminder at the end of the week if I haven't come back to you.

National standards are now nearly historical. Sure there are still JIS, ISO and Italian but other than Italian threaded bottom brackets--- which tend to be mainly from a few vendors, mainly in Italy (or like Merckx with an Italian pedigree)---- and retaining rings things are in only a few standards.
Before national standards companies all did their own thing.. so the national standards were a big way foward.. the French true to their Napoleonic history adopted a metric based system, the Italians a kind of Imperial Metric, the British true their Imperial system and the Japanese to theirs.. What remains is mainly JIS and ISO.
As a step back, of course, we have a whole new set of proprietary standards for bottom brackets and other components and a number of industry standards that change more often than Ricky Renee could ever change clothing...

I award this thread dredge 7 out of 10