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04-10-16 | 05:37 AM

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Trevtassie

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Originally Posted by Darth Lefty

According to the copy on the web page, the inventor came up with it riding around Uganda, so my guess is that he started with valve springs. At least they're the same scale. Nothing this seat post does will ever match what a valve spring has to do in its life.

Yeah, a quick calculation tells me my valve springs have done 336,000,000 cycles each

Last edited by Trevtassie; 04-10-16 at 05:50 AM.

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