Originally Posted by
BruceMetras
Ok, this thing has been bothering me ..
Now I'm going to put my bike back together..
b-but, that's what i already said...
you can see that the extension piece is standing proud of the maintube by approx. 100mm which is minimum insertion length for bicycle seatposts. this seems like a dodgy arrangement since at 100mm the seatpost will not be inside the maintube and all the leverage is solely on the extension (as is seen in the op's pics).