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  • Old road bike/fixie seatpost size etc help (post/bars discontinued)
  • hora
    Free Member

    Hello! Project commuter underway. What size seatpost and bars do I need and where from?!!
    [img]https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1620/25671190583_73ab91c43e_h.jpg[/img]

    samunkim
    Free Member

    Feel your pain.

    In the end, wheeled it into local LBS and just bought the size, which fitted best.

    marc
    Free Member

    Crocks, ffs!

    hora
    Free Member

    £3 from B&M – I use them for the sauna

    crispedwheel
    Free Member

    If you don’t have a set of vernier calipers, take it to the LBS, who should have an incremental gauge of post diameters, that’ll mean you buy the right size.

    Oh, and this

    Crocks, ffs!

    Bregante
    Full Member

    Interesting decking arrangement.

    hora
    Free Member

    Ah bregante you detected a Fixie/steel build 😀

    Bregante
    Full Member

    I only own* steel bikes these days 😀

    * shame I can’t bloody ride them too.

    windydave13
    Free Member

    Are you still stretford way? If so i might have a 1″ post in the garage you can try. I bought it for a bike i got out a skip but never fitted it. You’re more than welcome to give it a whirl if i can find it

    Dave

    hora
    Free Member

    Saint Retford, yes. Will PM you

    ghostlymachine
    Free Member

    I doubt it’s old enough to need a 25.4/1″ post.

    It looks like a mid/late 90s (maybe even early 00s) CIOCC to me. So probably 26.8 or 27.2.

    dovebiker
    Full Member

    Nice frame – Ciocc possibly made by Giovanni Pelizzoli so almost certainly Columbus tubing and probably 26.8mm or 27.2mm but a decent shop should have a tapered gauge that you simply drop into the tube and read off the diameter. OD of seattube would be 28.6mm. In terms of handlebars, common sizes were 25.8/26.0 and Cinelli’s 26.4 and will be dictated by the stem size. Suggest you get rid of the gash seatpost bolt and replace it with the right style Campagnolo one as well as a nice, sloping crown fork. Contemporary stem and bars would be Cinelli/ 3T / ITM

    ghostlymachine
    Free Member

    Possibly a san cristobal?
    So earlier than i thought. Easy way to tell would be rear drop out spacing.

    TheBrick
    Free Member

    As for all problems like this Sheldon is your man. (To compare with your measurements of course).

    http://www.sheldonbrown.com/seatpost-sizes.html

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Supermarket prosecco?

    You’re dead to me.

    hora
    Free Member

    CIOCC st cristobal?

    It take a rear regular/modern road wheel without any open/priding apart of the dropouts if that helps

    Dickyboy
    Full Member

    I’ve got a 26.8mm ritchey seatpost sitting in the spares bin you can have if you think it is anywhere close – it is pretty short though, pm me your address if you want it.

    ghostlymachine
    Free Member

    Bloody hell. Don’t encourage him!
    A 26.8 will “fit” in any of the the three likely sizes. Except in two of them it’ll be loose and eventually the frame will fail.

    Get to a shop with a decent workshop and they’ll have the tools to measure accurately. Both bars and seatpost.

    And FWIW, if it’s new enough to be using a 130 rear wheel, everything on it will still be available. Nothing from that era has been “discontinued”. It’s just that you don’t know what to look for.
    You can even get 1″ steerer forks from some places…….

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    Wouldn’t the table be more useful the right way up?

    amedias
    Free Member

    if it’s new enough to be using a 130

    unless it’s been cold set to 130mm from 126…

    but even so, parts are available easy enough for almost anything from the last 70odd years without much bother.

    another +1 million for just go and get it measured properly, even if you get some verniers and measure properly there’s still a chance the top’s been crimped (or reamed) a bit in the past, a proper tapered seatpost gauge bunged down there is what you need.

    thepodge
    Free Member

    That Morton’s old frame?

    It looks terrible. Fixies should be nice not a bag of spare parts bits

    hora
    Free Member

    That’s the one Podge. It’ll look good finished. It’s a nice SS commuter not a contestant in a SS festival..

    Any places on BPW? Apparently you can buy a pass on the day

    ghostlymachine
    Free Member

    unless it’s been cold set to 130mm from 126…

    just takes it from a 30 second Google to find the parts to a 90 second Google and possibly a phone call………

    thepodge
    Free Member

    hora – Any places on BPW? Apparently you can buy a pass on the day

    You can buy a day pass but that’s just access to the park and does not include the uplift.

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