besides, unless you are running a Thomson Dropper, I will bet that you will be itching to replace your old post when you replace you whole bike. If you find a fault with your item, send it back to us and we'll take a look at it as soon as we can. Machined Aluminium shim - machined to very high tolerances from 6082 T6 Aluminium and then black anodised to protect from corrosion. Run the post that fits your frame, avoid any warranty issues and over all have a nicer, cleaner, more professional looking ride. These useful extra Long (100mm) precision CNC machined alloy shims allow the use of a smaller diameter seat post inside a larger diameter seat tube on a frame.

Any of our old bike parts that we cannot use or sell on our recycled page we donate to this awesome initiative. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. How I got here (at Cane Creek): Feeling pretty unfulfilled with a corporate engineering job, I happened to see that Cane Creek was hiring. just wondered if there's any reason to avoid doing this as obviously a shim is never ideal but I cant see it doing any harm but my frame is carbon so don't want to do any damage, although my current dropper is an old 27.were fairly common in the early days of commercial mountain biking, because companies didn't put frames together with Reynolds tubes, for the most part. Shims are available in Aluminium or Thermo Plastic, despite the latter being a lighter solution its material characteristics limit the thickness of the ID - OD measurements. this one seems well made in comparison Purchased other shims before but they fail or let your seatpost slip. By swapping the original seatpost for a post with a smaller diameter, riders are able to maintain the advantages from a strong rigid frame while simultaneously creating a smoother ride.

There is some truth that it's a question of preference on a carbon fiber frame, but it would look really weird, for instance, to see a modern mountain bike made from large CF composite structures neck down to a 27. There is already a slot cut down the length of this already, simply trim 4mm off one side, effectively widening the slot. Winlong Garments Ltd T/A Planet X, is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Pay4Later Limited, trading as Deko, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 728646).These shims are longer length than many others to provide secure friction to seat post and reduce leverage damage risk to frames. The xl length of 100mm provides additional support to the seat post and frame compared to a short shim. Winstanleys Bikes is a trading name of Winstanleys Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under number 05713842 whose registered address is at Units 8-9 Martland Court, Fourmarts Road, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN5 0LU. seatpost is because they were brazing the frames in Waterloo, and had tons of Reynolds tubing from road/touring bikes.