My Clementine would need a spacer to use a 27.2 seatpost, the early Clems used a larger diameter seat tube. My super heavy duty Bombadil was built with a 27.0 Seat Tube inner diameter. I used a brake cylinder hone to enlarge it, that was before I got the reamer. I completely understand people not wanting to modify their frames, but I just turned 67 this week, so I don't think I will live long enough to wear out any of my frames, modified or not. I have been working on my own bikes for 50+ years and have broken things before and it is not the end of the world. I haven't broken a frame yet, though. I am not knocking 26.8 inner diameter seat tubes - Grant knows what he is doing. I have short legs and a long body, so long setback seat posts (I have 3 S-84s) and long stems have been my friends, allowing me to ride off the shelf bicycle frames. My Rivendell Custom has a 53.4 seat tube and 63.0 effective top tube. Remember, it is a steel frame and seat tubes can be replaced if worse comes to worse, and that gives you the excuse to get a new Joe Bell paint job. Rivendells (including my 1st Sam Hillborne) had 27.2 inner diameter seat tubes for years, with few if any problems. Has anybody on this list ever had a 27.2 seat tube fail at the seat post? I also filed my steerer tube on my Custom so that I could use a ReneHERSE front cable hanger.́HERSE HERSE
Laing On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 4:31:25 PM UTC-4 Doug H. wrote: > I cringe to think of reaming out the seat tube of my Clem!! Surely it was > designed to be as is... And I'm not calling anyone shirley. > Doug > > On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 4:28:40 PM UTC-4 lconley wrote: > >> I am not going to lend my reamer out, nor am I going to be responsible >> for shipping frames, but if anyone wants to drop by Delray Beach or bring >> their frame to the meet in Ashville, NC the weekend of July 7-9, I would be >> happy to do the deed. >> >> Laing >> >> On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 3:39:37 PM UTC-4 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! >> wrote: >> >>> Laing, are you offering to perform this service for us helpless Listers? >>> 😬 >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Apr 13, 2023, at 3:03 PM, lconley <lco...@brph.com> wrote: >>> >>> 27.2 Seat Tube Reamer + Nitto S84: >>> >>> <Seat Tube Reamer s.jpg> >>> >>> <B72side s.jpg> >>> >>> >>> Laing >>> >>> On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 1:41:26 PM UTC-4 brok...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> I can’t tell you how many times I’ve raised my fist in the air and >>>> cursed the decision of the 26.8 seatpost. >>>> >>>> On Apr 13, 2023, at 1:30 PM, Garth <gart...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> FWIW Leah, The Kalloy post that Riv includes with frames already has >>>> 25mm of setback and the model 602 has 24mm. They don't make one with any >>>> more than that, and some less. A few mm's plus or minus is hardly worthy >>>> of >>>> a new post.There's very few posts with more setback than 25mm in any >>>> diameter, in 26.8 even less. Seatpost specs is something I took a deep >>>> dive >>>> in when trying to find suitable 26.8 posts. It isn't pretty. Life is so >>>> much easier with 27.2 posts ! >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b15683f8-fc14-4530-881e-dea13c36969fn%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b15683f8-fc14-4530-881e-dea13c36969fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/7w-LvB64bdo/unsubscribe >>> . >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f14b1b5a-fce9-4cbe-ae2c-09500b635aa8n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f14b1b5a-fce9-4cbe-ae2c-09500b635aa8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> <Seat Tube Reamer s.jpg> >>> <B72side s.jpg> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6e3ad112-322f-4426-afb2-82ab4e943179n%40googlegroups.com.
