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Old 12-31-09 | 06:57 AM
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clyderider727
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Originally Posted by jetta-the-hut
just keep in mine if you race the seat cant be 5cm past the center of the cranshaft arm, look for a profile design fast foward seat post, as far as length, i'm not sure what to say except it sounds like your bike is too small if you need that big of a seat post.
The profile design fast forward is only a 300mm, too short. It would be perfect otherwise....essentially I want to find exactly that....but in a 350 rather than 300.

As I said in my previous post, the bike is properly sized, I was sized at multiple LBS. I am all legs with a short torso, so I have to get a bike that the top tube fits me and run more seatpost, this is especially true with a forward position because as you put the saddle closer towards the BB you need to go higher to have the same distance away from it. I am not looking to go up at 90deg or anything like that, I just want to get from a road position to a normal, legal, established Tri geometry.

So, the bike is the right size or as close to the right size you can get for someone in bad proportion, I have a 37" inseam but I have a very short torso for my height. Imagine the torso from a guy that's 5'10" and then prop that up on legs from a guy that's about 6'6" and you get me. I have tried a host of bikes in many different sizes and many different manufacturers, I have been to probably no less than 10 seperate bike shops, I have done all I could to find the right bike short of having a custom one built for me. I found the manufacturer who makes their bikes taller with shorter top tubes after comparing the geometries on bikes from at least 15 different bike manufacturers. I didn't randomly pick up whatever bike was around.

So....no, I don't need a bigger bike, cause then the top tube will be too long and I will be overly stretched out and it will put my body in an even worse position. I got the tallest bike I could while keeping the top tube reasonable, I have already shortened the stem to get some size back there.....all that stuff has been done.

Now, does anyone have any info about any of these seatposts....anything? Please don't suggest getting a different bike, or changing a stem, or any other thing....I would really really appreciate feedback about....seatposts.
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