Light & cheap seat post

rockmonkeysc

I need a 30.9 x 350mm seatpost to fit 6mm saddle rails. Whats the lightest, best quality I can get for up to £40?
I'm no lightweight (14 st) so reasonable strength will be needed.

supersonic

What is the saddle? Not seen many 6mm rails!

rockmonkeysc

Charge Spoon, I thought 6mm was standard? My DH & DJ saddles have 8mm rails, I thought 6mm was the standard for XC.

supersonic

7mm is standard. Pretty sure yours will be that.

Easton EA30 is decent for the money:

http://www.merlincycles.com/bike-shop/m ... tpost.html

I just got one of these, very good piece of kit, switchable for saddle rail sizes too:

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-t ... Googlebase

Most tend to be about 250-300g for this money in aluminium.

LJ.

Haven cheap http://www.freeborn.co.uk/easton-haven-alloy-seatpost

supersonic

Good price, wrong size ;-)

mrmonkfinger

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=11375


Having bent a few of them, I tend to think of seatposts as sacrificial, on a MTB.

rockmonkeysc

mrmonkfinger wrote:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=11375


Having bent a few of them, I tend to think of seatposts as sacrificial, on a MTB.

I bent a few 27.2 x 400mm posts. I'm hoping a larger diameter, shorter post will be stronger.

Chunkers1980

A shorter post won't be stronger, it's exposed post acting as leverage.

Perhaps consider a Thomson, I've bent a few other posts in the past and ruined a few saddles on this Thomson post and it is still straight as ruler.