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depends on whether youve got a saddle on the end of it surely?

I forget that people buy carbon seatposts for comfort reasons.

Pesonally I just wouldn't trust a seatpost made of cardboard fibre.

cos you weigh 300kg of course

Planet-x are selling these cheap.
http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/SPFSSLK/fsa-sl-k-carbon-seatpost

If you want to spend more, syntace are always good.

I have Max's road bars in my bin actually. He rode here and broked them.
I think it's called Power Cyling.

Ha, sorry I didn't take them home with me... Wasn't really in a conscious state...

My new frame is coming with a quil seatpost WTF?

Looks neat at least.

cos you weigh 300kg of course

Ha, screw you, it's more to do with the amount of miles I do and the way I treat my bike than the fact I'm a big bastard.

^ probably a bit of both no? Oh and as for weight, a Masterpeice is +£115, so not really comparable to a £65 post. Which is about what a standard Thomson is.

Smallflurry - I'm trying to work that out... I guess the little allen key bolt on the side adjusts the quill so you can raise the post with a saddle on.

I'm just not quite sure how it does that?

My new frame is coming with a quil seatpost WTF?

Looks neat at least.

we have a BMC using the same seatpost at work, the seatpost itself is square rather than circular, and it's pretty skinny.

they're not the first to make quill seatpost though.

I know. You used to have those campag ones for the Mosers... pretty hard to find.

Retro de Corsa's got a pink Moser with one I think and it looks sick.

But surely that oldy one above you have to have either a sadle with a hole in it or measure before you put the sadle on?

^ probably a bit of both no? Oh and as for weight, a Masterpeice is +£115, so not really comparable to a £65 post. Which is about what a standard Thomson is.

Thomson parts are easy to get at trade price.

Thomson parts are easy to get at trade price.

Still doesn't make them light

They're light anyway.

WW says the lightest Thomson is a Masterpiece (SP-M102), 27.2/240 mm, from 2004 @ 153.6 g.

That's pretty light.

Anyone got one from 2004?

But they are light for the amount of shit they can take. make sense to me.

They're light anyway.

Masterpiece 31.6 x 350 listed 193 g ! 3T Doric Ltd Seat Post list 163 g .. similar retail price on Wiggle as a reference ..

Yep Nuno, lightest and strongest...

^^^ true.

But we all know everyone just buys them because they're straight.

Not everyone.

Yep, lightest and strongest...

Don't believe the marketing ! Do a google on Thomson Seatpost Failure

This happens to all Thomson seatposts. Fact.

Also just googled "money grows on trees".

First hit makes it true.

...and I always thought my dad was full of shit.

Haha. Everything breaks at some point FFS.

Everybody has their own opinion .. but mine is they overrated and overweight