santiago

LOL! My second favourite post of the day. Top honours still go to Chelboed for his "sack" comment in the Daily Rides thead.

cryptid01

Did you use too much anti-seize on your seatpost, santiago?

I would be more interested in the opposite version of this product - that is, the piece that fixes the post at optimal climbing height but will allow me to slam it if desired. Keep the price and weight the same range and I'll buy a dozen.

santiago

The lube I choose to use on my post is none of your business.

Now that I got that gem out of the way: in all seriousness I'm not the only big dummy with the problem. I think the seatpost collar that came with the frame is the culprit.

I also wish there was a GD-like solution for $10, but alas no one's figured that one out yet.

dminor 

^^ There is one for about $30: Sette Ryde ST-850. I'm trying it out right now. Only drawback is that it is a bit of a suspension post too; so I'm not sure how I'm going to like that. But for $30, it was worth the gamble.

BTW, I have seen the guts of a Rase post and - - dang! - - a person with a little ingenuity could knock one off (for personal use mind you) without too much grief.

varminter

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bikinfool

Well, there was the original Hite-Rite....

If I have slippage I take care of it in other ways, and the only slippage I've really had a problem with was on a bike I don't have any more, probably a tolerance issue. I use a GD on my main mountain bikes, too. I did just see a thread elsewhere today about someone wondering if this sort of thingie would work for a slipping carbon post on a carbon bike, apparently a not uncommon issue for some road bikes.

santiago

Do you have a link to that carbon road bike thread?

cryptid01

I've got it figured out - you'd merely have to tap a hole through the front of the seattube and machine a corresponding slot in the seatpost for the tip of the fixing bolt to run in. Use your standard qr seat collar. As a bonus, seat alignment would always be right on.

mcoine

Thats not a bad idea. If you make the seat tube slottted, you could even throw an old fork spring in the seat tube to have it bounce up to a preset height..

bikinfool

It was this thread but wasn't a road bike thread, but used the example of Paris-Roubaix road bikes he'd seen using that...this one https://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=515565

cryptid01

Yeah, and then we could rig it with a handlebar controlled remote!

Integrated Gravity Dropper will be the Next Big Thing (after 650b F, 26 R rules the market).

dminor 

I like they way you think . . . even if it is tongue-in-cheek, smartazz .

BTW, in refernce to the Rase I mentioned above . . . check page 6 and 7 of this manual. Eerily close to what you describe; and when I saw how stone-axe simple it is, I was embarrassed for not thinking of it.

https://rasebike.com/downloads/RASE%2...t%20Manual.pdf

S.D.XC

"Caution: If the cyclist is not completely capable of distinguishing the various operational levers and
shifters from each other then the user should not use this product."

from RASE.

cryptid01

I know you're a proponent, and I was only half joking. Merritt has a Banshee Pyre with that configuration and JRA it feels pretty damn slick to me.

Kudos to RASE on producing the most comprehensive seatpost manual ever! In terms of simplicity, if not of utility, santiago's product FTW.

rankin116

https://www.nashbar.com/webapp/wcs/st...3_10000_201375

bikinfool

Reminds me of me when I first put my Gravity Dropper on...my brain, after years of only having shift levers on the bar, insisted for a few rides that was what the GD lever was for, too.