Beautiful and well made but there is a but!

by Anonymous, 30 November 2011, 5 out of 6 people found this review helpful

As far as seat posts go there is no doubting this is an exquisite piece of engineering, it is all one piece and it is light and stong too and I am very happy with it, it looks stunning on my steel Genesis....however.....be WARNED >>>>> if buying the layback post, as per other reviews, I can confirm that if you have your seatpost high and saddle tilting forward towards your stem then you wont be able to with this post as the bracket has been engineered level with the layback and not tilted forward so most of the adjustment angles available point your saddle tip skywards, mine is set on the most extreme of available angles forward and my saddle is just level. Come on Thompson you can do better.....otherwise awsome product.

Quality but not the angle of dangle!

by Anonymous, 2 September 2011, 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Fantastic quality as always, but and it's a big but, the layback post only just about manages to get your saddle to level, being tall I have about 280 mm of post showing and normally have my saddle tilted low at the nose pointing to headset this is the perfect attack angle for me - but is not possible with this post!! The fixing mech has been engineered the easy way with the mech inline with the layback part of seat post which automatically means its set pointing to the sky and can only just about manage to get level at its max - rather than the mech being engineered at 90 degrees to the vertical section so you'd then get a full range of adjustment. Will take it for a ride in morning and see if I can live with it!