Originally Posted by jbonamici

I guess that's what's happened. What's truly unfortunate is that decent old bikes for a fair price are pretty uncommon in my neck of the woods. I'm going to see if I can make this one work by shimming. Any thoughts on the proper shim material? I know that some metals can interact detrimentally, but I'm thinking that I commonly put an Al seatpost in the steel frame so Al shim stock should be OK, right?