Motobecane Profil 2 seatpost clamp
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Motobecane Profil 2 seatpost clamp
A friend recently received a Motobecane Profil 2, an unusual road frame with elliptical, roughly teardrop-shaped tubes. The seat tube uses a clamp instead of just a binder bolt, and of course the clamp is missing. Anybody have one laying around I could buy/trade for/just get for free, or any possible workarounds that come to mind?
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Originally Posted by epenthetic
A friend recently received a Motobecane Profil 2, an unusual road frame with elliptical, roughly teardrop-shaped tubes. The seat tube uses a clamp instead of just a binder bolt, and of course the clamp is missing. Anybody have one laying around I could buy/trade for/just get for free, or any possible workarounds that come to mind?
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Originally Posted by epenthetic
any possible workarounds that come to mind?
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or maybe this. I've made some amazing repairs with this material.
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Originally Posted by ga_mueller
We realized last night that the weird looking pump mount on the seat tube is actually the 'clamp', the allen set screw CV-6 mentions. Unfortunately, the hole for it is just drilled through, instead of having some kind of braze-on, and the metal around the hole has deformed so badly that it's useless now. Although with the hose clamp ....
Er, I guess it's time to start stripping the bike for parts.
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Originally Posted by epenthetic
Haha, of course. But no, the shape of the seat tube makes a standard clamp impossible.
We realized last night that the weird looking pump mount on the seat tube is actually the 'clamp', the allen set screw CV-6 mentions. Unfortunately, the hole for it is just drilled through, instead of having some kind of braze-on, and the metal around the hole has deformed so badly that it's useless now. Although with the hose clamp ....
Er, I guess it's time to start stripping the bike for parts.
We realized last night that the weird looking pump mount on the seat tube is actually the 'clamp', the allen set screw CV-6 mentions. Unfortunately, the hole for it is just drilled through, instead of having some kind of braze-on, and the metal around the hole has deformed so badly that it's useless now. Although with the hose clamp ....
Er, I guess it's time to start stripping the bike for parts.