I had the same issue as you Nick and felt the same frustration. I wasn't sure if the seatpost was the problem, so I picked up a Thomson (elite) to be sure, and it had the same issue. I eventually ended up snapping the binder bolt because the seatpost was slipping too much, but the slightly longer bolt seems to be doing the job of holding my extremely average body weight.
Reaming has crossed my mind and I know riv uses thicker walled tubing than most, but I still wanted to avoid it. How has it been holding up for you? Do you think 27.2 is possible? I would've much rather had that size from the get-go, I didn't realize how rare 26.8 is becoming. On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 1:15:36 AM UTC-7 Nick Payne wrote: > I was a bit pissed off when I found on delivery that the latest Rivendell > frame I bought took a 26.8 seatpost. The three previous Riv frames I have > all use 27.2. And in fact, this latest frame wasn't even accurately sized > for 26.8 - the Kalloy seatpost that came with it, and which was a true 26.8 > by my vernier calipers, was a slightly loose fit in the seat tube. So I > reamed the seat tube to 27.0 and used a 27.0 Nitto S83. > > Nick Payne > -- 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/bbc81cf6-310f-4724-9e45-d14e96a2708dn%40googlegroups.com.
