Old 10-07-09, 12:29 AM
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Thanks all. Sorry I wasn't clear, I just meant the brake-lever shims. This is my first drop-bar bike... not my first-ever bike.

I noticed one other issue with the bike -- there's pretty substantial scratching of the paint underneath the seat-post binder:

http://tinyurl.com/yd488lp

I don't mind the look of this, and with the frame's being aluminum, I'm not too worried about rust, but might this compromise the integrity or longevity of the bike in some other way? If the binder was way over-tightend at the factory, might the frame be more likely to fail at that joint?
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