Originally Posted by
79pmooney
Ti Cycles can make a post of any setback you want using that excellent Thomson clamp. A few hundred dollars. Their posts are joys to own. I've got two because I had my two Ti Cycles frames built with steep seat tubes to get rear tire clearance with short chainstays and fenders. (I pull my weight forward when the going gets interesting. Bikes with long chainstays get bouncy and skiddy in back on mountain downhill corners where the ride is as interesting as it gets. My short chainstay bikes I absolutely love! Needing 60mm setback posts? $$$ yes. And the ride? Yes! Now if I were doing it again, I'd have the builder bend the seattube. Duh!)
Coincidently, I just got off the phone with Dave. I'm taking his frame building seminar in April. That custom bike will be a perfect fit. I asked him about bending one of his Ti seatposts and he doesn't have a die for his bending machine in 27.2mm. Would cost about $1K for him to make one.........