Originally Posted by
TiHabanero
What is the purpose of a threaded in post? Outside of replacement in the event of damaging a post, which I have never seen, what is the advantage?
In my case I was exploring the idea of having two sets of posts on the stays/fork to support different wheel sizes. So one set for 559s and one for 622s (or 580s). It would be necessary to remove the unused studs for the brakes to operate.
Note that I haven't actually tried this, so I'm not 100% sure there is no interference, but it looks like it would work. I am also not really sure this is a good idea...
For the normal use-cases I think it is for ease of replacing damaged and/or worn posts. Don't know how common that is though.