Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
I'm not sure I understand. Is your saddle all the way back on the current seat post and you still need more. Or are you trying to avoid clamping your saddle more forward of the middle of the rails. If the former, you need more setback. If the latter, just push the saddle back. Contrary to popular belief there is no reason the clamp needs to be centered of the saddle rails...or even close to that. If you need more setback, there are seat posts with 135 mm. Here you go for a suggestion: Specialized Alias seat post with 35 mm setback. Without getting some monstrosity, that is about as long as you can get.
It's the former : my saddle is already as far back as I can get it, and I still feel it's not enough. I'm mostly wondering whether the VO grand cru would make a difference for me. The setback is 5mm more than my current seatpost, which isn't much (it's 30mm for the VO and 26mm for my current Shimano). I'm also curious to see if anyone has experience with the VO and can tell me if the clamps offer a better fit for the short rails, meaning that a 5mm difference could in reality be more.
The Specialized is a bit longer and would work, but I have someone ready to sell me the VO at a good price.