I asked Will about this recently and he said something to the effect that Grant didn't want to ream out as much from the seat tube hence thicker tube and thinner post.
I'm with Laing and would like that lugged seatpost in a 26.8, please! On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 8:05:10 AM UTC-4 lconley wrote: > Rivendell switched over to mostly 26.8 seatposts maybe 5-6 years ago when > they started using thicker tubing across the board. My 1st Rivendell (of > 13) was a sidepull double top tube all-blue Sam Hillborne in 2011 and was > 27.2, every other Rivendell with a 28.6 (1-1/8) OD seat tube since has been > 26.8 except the thin tubed Frank Jones Sr with a 27.2 and the Bombadil with > a 27.0. I just wish that they would issue the lugged seatpost in 26.8. I > put a 27.2 lugged seatpost in the Bombadil by honing the ID if the seat > tube with an automotive brake cylinder hone. I use the hone on all my > frames anyway to smooth the interior of the tube so that the frames don't > scratch the seatposts. In the case of the Bombadil It just took a couple of > evenings and an extra set of stones to enlarge the diameter. The > Hubbuhubbuh and Clementine use even larger seat tubes and seat posts. My > custom uses 31.8 OD tubes for the entire main triangle and uses a 29.0 > seatpost (1.4mm thick seat tube) - made for an interesting search - ended > up with an very cool 30 year old NOS Campagnolo Icarus MTB seatpost. I grew > up on French bicycles, so alternate component standards were always part of > cycling to me. Much more pleasurable using Google than telephoning multiple > bike shops and hitch-hiking across the state in the seventies to get a 26.4 > Campagnolo Record seatpost. > > Laing > Delray Beach FL > > On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 5:57:29 AM UTC-4 Nick Payne wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 19 October 2021 at 7:37:04 pm UTC+11 Nick Payne wrote: >> >>> If you use a seattube with thicker 0.9mm walls (say for a touring bike >>> designed to carry a load), then that will take a 28.6mm seatpost. >>> >> That should have been 26.8mm seatpost, not 28.6. >> > -- 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/b1941696-edb7-4970-8d6e-eaec2ccefe3en%40googlegroups.com.
