The pit lock skewer works on one of my bikes that has a binder post that juts straight back from the seat tube similar to those by many of the post war Italian builders and the steel lugged Treks.
Do not work on a custom with the new style collar around the seat tube and the other which has a fastback style seat cluster. On Feb 5, 10:07 am, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > The pitlock seatpost binders are designed to work with bicycles that > use the old style q/r binder bolt. Works great on my 84 Stumpjumper > and on a similar vintage Trek MTB that I worked on. They don't > generally work with seatpost clamps that are not part of the frame, > and they don't tend to work on integral clamps that are designed to be > used with a bolt. > > On Feb 5, 9:41 am, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > > I have pitlock skewers. I was unable to get the pitlock seat post > > binders to work on several of my bikes, however. So I just ordered a > > couple of the Zefal binders. Will report back once they arrive. > > > On Feb 5, 9:32 am, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Rick <richardholc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > I just put them on the bleriot. They function as intended - you can't > > > > work the quick release until the bike get's flipped over. As far as > > > > the strength goes, I gave it a serious, braced against the wall pull > > > > just to check them out, and it didn't budge. > > > > Does anyone know what the mechanism is made of? Maybe I need to buy > > > one and find out if a magnet will 'flip' the internal switch. > > > > -sv- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
