It is common and OK to cut off the unneeded part of a seat post. I have done it, or you could take it to a bike shop with a good mechanic and have them do it. Lots of modern bikes require extremely long seatposts and the excess routinely gets cut off. A couple of years ago I bought a beautiful used Saluki and was surprised to find that the classic Suntour Superbe seatpost had been cut pretty near the minimum of what I needed.
Michael On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 6:24:01 PM UTC-4, John wrote: > > I'm trying to fine tune the saddle on my SO's 47cm Betty, and it looks > like I either need a slightly shorter seat post, or I need to shorten the > seat post by about 3/4" - 1". > > My SO's PBH is 73 and the lowest I can get the saddle is 62cm from saddle > to axle with a B68. I would like to use a B7s to give her a little more > space, but this is the smallest concern at this point. > > Both the Nitto Crystal Fellow and Nitto Lugged seat posts seem to be > slightly too long to get a Brooks 68s or B67s down far enough. They are > stopped by the junction of the seat & top tubes. > > It looks like shortening the lugged seat post would get either the B68s or > B67s saddle low enough, and back far enough to be comfortable. > > Are there any problems with sawing a bit off the end, or should I try > finding something shorter? > > Any alternatives, ideas, suggestions, hints, advice, and dire warnings > would be very welcome. > > Thanks in advance, > > John > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
