Classic & Vintage - Newer nuovo seat post or Older Super seat post

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joe englert
07-30-10, 05:45 PM
This seat post is campy but its fluted with the old two bolt system. not sure if its super record or nuovo record?

Ragooch
07-30-10, 06:26 PM
Looks like a NR that somebody milled. The very early SR was a 2-bolt style, but the flutes were shaped differently than that one.
Bianchigirll
07-30-10, 08:09 PM
I think I agree that this is home or frame builder fluting. I don't think Campi would cut through their own name. also i thought the factory fluting had an angle or bevel to the ends rather than a steep cut.

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=162396&d=1280533493

Drillium Dude
07-31-10, 12:03 AM
Definately an NR with pantograph fluting. In fact, if there's a "B" on the front it's a Bianchi panto post.

The easiest way to distinguish between the first generation Super Record and a Nuovo Record seatpost with fluting:

SR - bottom cradle pivot drilled all the way through
NR - solid

SR - bottom cradles alloy
NR - steel

SR - fluting fades to more of a point - just like the later SR one-bolt posts
NR - rounded-end fluting

SR - thinner steel top clamps
NR - thicker

SR - post wall thickness is thinner, too

Hope that clears it up for you (a Bianchi panto NR post is still worth some big bucks, and has a cool factor for sure).
vjp
07-31-10, 12:17 AM
It does look like a Bianchi milled Record Seat Post.
cudak888
07-31-10, 12:49 AM
Nuovo Record post with 3rd-party milling. A first-gen, fluted, two-bolt Super Record would look like this:

http://www.jaysmarine.com/82_superior_24.jpg

-Kurt
streik
07-31-10, 02:11 AM
To make sure you have a nuovo record seat post, you can always proceed as follows:

1. Acquire small amount of explosive
2. Insert explosive into the seatpost through the opening at the bottom
3. Step away
4. Detonate
5. If there still is a seat post, it's definetly NR :D
cudak888
07-31-10, 08:56 AM
To make sure you have a nuovo record seat post, you can always proceed as follows:

But the Super Record first-gen posts would hold up to that test as well.

-Kurt
joe englert
07-31-10, 01:56 PM
i see. ok, nuovo with some cool panto. thanks much. just wasnt sure about it.
pacifico
07-31-10, 02:07 PM
The giveaway that the fluting is not original is that it runs through the engraved text on the back of the post.