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- From: rfriedel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ronald J Friedel)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Allsop Suspension Seat Post
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 17:30:06 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- Summary: Can I get one for a Burley tandem?
- Originator: rfriedel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
-
- I have a question for the net.
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- We have a 2 year old Burley tandem, probably one of the original ones.
- It has an ovalized top tube.
-
- Being in the after-Christmas sales buying mood, I ordered some stuff from
- Nashbar and Performance. We had thought about getting an Allsop cantilever
- seat "post" and when I was talking to the telephone person at Performance,
- I asked about it. It had been in their catalogs of about a year ago. It
- was no longer available from Performance.
-
- I then went to a local bike shop, where we had purchased the Burley, and
- asked about the Allsop. The manager, who is a friend, said he would call
- Allsop and order one for me. He called me at the end of the day and
- said that Allsop no longer makes the cantilever beams as retrofits on
- bikes with oval tubing. He did give me the Allsop telephone number.
-
- I called Allsop myself and found that they do sell their "beams" as a
- retrofit kit but not for the Burleys with oval tubing. I got the
- feeling that I was getting into "lawyers territory" so I stopped trying
- to order one at that point.
-
- Someone (Pam?) in the past posted some details about attaching an Allsop
- to a Burley. I seem to remember that the original attachments failed and
- that this person found a good fix for the problem.
-
- I am willing to drill a hole through the Burley's top-tube, if necessary,
- to fit one of these beams. I know, it would invalidate the frame
- warrenty. Maybe it would compromise the frame strength. Any comments?
-
- Any ideas would be appreciated. (We haven't seen the ads for the springy
- seat posts in "Bicycling" for a while; nor in the LAW magazine. These
- would be a cheaper alternative and could be more easily thrown out if
- they didn't work out.)
-
- Thanks,
- Ron Friedel
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- Ron Friedel
- GeoSciences UW-Milwaukee
- rfriedel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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