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Grammo looks ace with the MAX tubeset

dat quill adapter

patience mlyzshns there's a quill in the post. :)

grammo?

Here is my Max bike pre crash (and respray) with Shamals, and after with Nucleons.

Seriously though Nucleons, are fantastic, light, rock solid, couldn't recommend them enough.

^not yet.

here's a quick mock up with 8 speed Vento's (being sold), A-head Grammo and Soma HW1

introducing pollo bars.

Wow! That will look great, go Athena11!!!

introducing T-Rex bars.

^

Wow! That will look great, go Athena11!!!

Thanks. I'm thinking that gears are for old people, might just ride it as a fixed conversion

^not really

strange, both ^ and the Kalloy it came with are 27.2mm. The Kalloy was substantially longer, and inserted quite far down. It came out relatively easily. Both posts now slip in for about 4-5cm, then nothing. It seems as if the seattube has magically shrunk overnight.

Magnets?

Nothing you can see with a torch?

there seems to be some muck from a point down, will try and clean it now and try again.

Might have to double check with a reamer.

is there any chance that the MAX seatpost is 27.0mm ID?

From a quick google fu, it might well be.

I noticed a variation from 27.0mm to 27.4mm seatpost sizes on different bikes, all built with Columbus Max.

Get down your lbs and get a vernier gauge thingy on it to be sure.

I've got a digital vernier you can use apollo

Thanks both (Jack I might take you up on that), here's my simple test:

I cleaned the seattube and here's the results using the Deda 27.2 from the Plum as a control (because I know for a fact that the Plum is 27.2mm):

Spin Ti 27.2 - Only fits in Plum/Somec for about 2-3cm
Deda 27.2 - Fits in Plum & Somec
Kalloy* 27.2 - Fits in Plum & Somec

Conclusions:

Somec has to be 27.2mm ID, in which case the Spin Ti post is not.

Better PM the seller.

*I also cleaned it up and found the 27.2 stamp, so I'm sure about it, and the frame being 27.2

did you grease it up when attempting to slip it in?

always. and I made sure the entry point was greased too.

I once had something similar and a blast of GT85 down the seat tube sorted it....

get Hyperons

I wish