divineAndbright

I noticed the seat post in the recently aquired Marinoni was in backwards for some reason making it impossible to get the seat nicely level, so I remedied that, and as I was tightening the binder bolt back up it snapped! Weird as I certainly was paying attention not to over-tighten. I dont really have any bike shops around to haggle for a replacement, and ebay is expensive.. for a binder bolt anyway, there are only 3 listings right now even, and they are all for campagnolo ones (ebay Canada), so I thought I'd check in with you guys if anyone has anything in their parts boxes they can spare. Doesnt have to be any specific brand, though bonus points if its Italian (Keeping in the all italian theme the Marinoni has) but A no-name would be fine too. The stock one was Gipiemme however.

rcevans

Just bought two at the bike shop the other day because they had two different sizes and I didn't feel like going home with the wrong one. Though when I got home either one would work. I paid $5 each and all they say on them is cro-mo on the head. I can measure it when I get home and it would be nice if it could go in an envelope for 39 cents.

USAZorro

There are a couple different sizes. I have a spare 8mm diameter binder bolt that has 22mm between the heads. I got it for a bicycle I'm building up that actually needed one that was 27mm. It is a Miche - (made in Italy), and I got it from Mike Barry in Toronto, so there's another reason why it might be meant to be. PM me if you're interested.

brokenrobot

Nashbar's no-name is $5, and Performance has Campy for $8, if you don't find what you're looking for here...

evwxxx

Be careful about dropping one of these in a plain envelope! I won a seat binder bolt on ebay once and the seller just put it in a plain, non-reinforced envelope. I got it a few days later, a nice envelope with a small hole at one end and no binder bolt! The UPSP uses automated rollers to sort mail around in big post offices, and I imagine that the letter hitting the first roller would have squirted that bolt out the back like, well, you get the picture! I always wondered if that Campy binder bolt had got in the automated system works and "bound" things up for them for the rest of that day!

divineAndbright

I was just thinking about that actually.. USAzorro is sending over one, quite possibly already did, hopefully its not just plain enveloped as described above, and if it is, well cross ye fingers!

USAZorro

I have it in a plain envelope, but in padding and that stapled between a couple layers of index cards. I'm confident that it won't come popping out.