Your lawn looks very lush for this time of year. You must be pleased with that, at least?
My lawn has NEVER looked like that in the top pic (which is courtesy of google)!
before publicly wringing my hands about the situation
I haven’t named them in the subject line or post (other than the hyperlink, which STW will probably get paid for if you click on) nor have I slated their customer service, they may well resolve the issue to my satisfaction and if so I will update the thread accordingly to give an accurate reflection of the experience, I doubt this thread will top the search engine charts or I am about to bring them to their knees. They HAVE shipped an expensive bike that has been poorly assembled, and I don’t consider my response (either the disappointment or this thread) to be unreasonable. I do know I am very obsessive about bikes and was interested to see which way any consensus fell, hence the question in the subject line.
What is it with you and seat tubes?
🙄 😀
I do all my own spannering myself (including wheel builds, fork services etc) so I was giving the bike a “PDI” before the grand unveiling to MC, but I hadn’t even got as far as fitting pedals. For some reason I am now drawn to checking seatposts…
I’ve been reading a lot of Process reviews and quite a few pick up on the reliability of the KS pos
I’ve read similar – probably the same reviews- about it being very fussy about cable tension and position. And it’s your fault we bought it Chapaking, so no pressure or anything 😉
edit to capture later reponse:
Shouldn’t you be checking what caused the scratch in the first place? Is there a sharp edge on the inside of the seat post or collar? If that isn’t resolved, a replacement post will just get scratched in the same way.
there will be a slight burr inside the seat tube or clamp which is not uncommon, it’d the sort of thing a decent PDI finds, and when I build a new bike from a frame I have an old knackered “sacrificial” post I use to investigate. A few seconds with some wet-and-dry is normally enough to sort it.
And yes it’s a much nicer green in the metal than in the stock pics.