Originally Posted by
davester
I'm working on a '74 silver Cinelli right now. The frame is a little bit small so I need a long seatpost (the original had been cut off extremely short). Unfortunately the 26.2 mm Cinelli size is unique and the Campy two bolt seatposts are generally short in any case. However, the one you have on there looks to be super long (unless you only have it inserted a couple of millimeters) and would be perfect for my bike. Where did you get it?
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The Campag Record, Record SL and Super Record were offered in two stock lengths; 140mm and 180mm. Cycle manufacturers tended to use the 140, perhaps to help them claim a lower weight for their products. At the distributor and retailer level mostly only the 180 was stocked since it could be easily shortened if so desired by the end user. The pillars were made in fourteen diameters from 25.0mm to 27.4mm (a repair size) in increments of .2mm. So it is easy to see how the investment of distributor or retailer could quickly get right up there when there are twenty-eight permutations of diameter and length. Hence they mostly only stocked the longer.
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