Originally Posted by
hamfoh
so my centurion seatpost diameter appears to be 27.0 (probably). 27.2 feels too tight (it's what was in there but when I took it out the post was coated in Vaseline...). I didn't force my 27.2 in there, so tried the 26.8 I had sitting around and it just fell right in.
so is forcing that extra .2 a bad move?
I've looked up some threads about this, since the seatpost size on my roadie is pretty uncommon (25.8). People generally advised that you should stick with the correct size, but I have seen some people do ghetto sanding jobs on seatpost that were just the tiniest bit too big (i.e. +0.2).
I haven't tried it myself, since I've been holding out for a correctly sized Dura Ace post, but I've seen more than one ebay listing for 26.0 Dura Ace posts, and it's like they're tempting me.
