Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
That's an interesting idea. Who puts those together for you? Do you buy the whole Thompson posts and throw away what you don't need? Are you aware very light no-name clamping hardware can be bought separately off ebay?
TiCycles makes the posts. They machine the head from solid stock to the needed setback, drill for the seatpost diameter, glue and set-screw it in and put on the hardware they buy directly from Thompson. Apparently Thompson makes this very easy.
I have no desire to deviate from the Thompson hardware. Busting seatposts always messes up rides. (Turned a 100 mile ride into an epic when I broke a bolt at the halfway point of an out and back. 1970s, I was new to the area and had no phone numbers. Farm country.)
Ben