Cervelo Soloist seat post shim

MattFalle

Ciao

Has anyone got one of these lying around? I'm about to look at making one was just wondering about what to make it out of - beer can? bean can?

Just not sure on width of material to start consuming product to make it. Do I even have to go to Edwyn's to buy a piece of sheet ali?

Many thanks

M

pinno

I might have a solution...
What's the diameter of the seatpin and what is the diamater of the orifice?

pinno

[ooer missus]

MattFalle

Thank you very much Pinno but its an aero seat post - Cervelo supplied a small brass shim that everyone lost/crushed ate and it was meant to help stop the seat post tube cracking from overtightening.

I've seen them for sale in a shop in Holland but was just wondering about the dimensions so I could make one from a can of Edwyn's Juice.

Again - thank you and very much appreciated.

MattFalle

This badger here

https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Cervelo/Replacement-Shim-for-Flippable-Aero-Seatpins/48A

looks to me just like a thin brass shim, nowt special, see.

Wheelspinner

It should be made from beryllium. Marketing will tell you that increases lateral stiffness by 0.376% while saving 0.0714 grams.

Given it’s a bike part, it will cost more than a replacement transmission for a Bugatti Veyron, and have a fixed MTBF of less than 200 days. Buy extras.

MattFalle

MF was thinking of using part of a can of Guinness tbh. Maybe two if it needs to be thicker.

#gains

pinno

Just bung some grab adhesive down the seat tube.

#jobdone.

Mad_Malx

MattFalle said:

MF was thinking of using part of a can of Guinness tbh. Maybe two if it needs to be thicker.

#gains

Think it has to be a craft IPA these days.

NB Have you just been let out of the cellar and trying to make up for lost posting time?

MattFalle

pinno said:

Just bung some grab adhesive down the seat tube.

#jobdone.

its not the slipping bit that is the issue - spaffings of carbon paste solves that - its the frame cracking where it wraps around the seat post becauseCervelo never made the seat posts big enough to fill the hole, therefore the shim.

#girth.itmatters

MattFalle

Mad_Malx said:

MattFalle said:

MF was thinking of using part of a can of Guinness tbh. Maybe two if it needs to be thicker.

#gains

Think it has to be a craft IPA these days.

NB Have you just been let out of the cellar and trying to make up for lost posting time?

Think you may be right. This is going tp be a whole new world for MF.

Only some of us were llet out of the cellar - the rest of us are still down there planning world domination.

#itshallbeours

pinno

MattFalle said:

pinno said:

Just bung some grab adhesive down the seat tube.

#jobdone.

its not the slipping bit that is the issue - spaffings of carbon paste solves that - its the frame cracking where it wraps around the seat post becauseCervelo never made the seat posts big enough to fill the hole, therefore the shim.

#girth.itmatters

So basically, they are cr4p.

Smash it to bits, set alight to it and chuck...

You know the rest.

Ben6899

MattFalle said:

pinno said:

Just bung some grab adhesive down the seat tube.

#jobdone.

its not the slipping bit that is the issue - spaffings of carbon paste solves that - its the frame cracking where it wraps around the seat post becauseCervelo never made the seat posts big enough to fill the hole, therefore the shim.

#girth.itmatters

Ah. Cervelo quality.

veronese68

I thought they were supposed to be good. So why do dentists and lawyers pay big bucks for them.

MattFalle

Ben6899 said:

MattFalle said:

pinno said:

Just bung some grab adhesive down the seat tube.

#jobdone.

its not the slipping bit that is the issue - spaffings of carbon paste solves that - its the frame cracking where it wraps around the seat post becauseCervelo never made the seat posts big enough to fill the hole, therefore the shim.

#girth.itmatters

Ah. Cervelo quality.

This, exactly, 100%. Potentially brilliant bikes - fast, smooth, v v pretty, but basic stupid design faults: the seat post/frame interface on the Soloist, the seat seat post clamp on the older S5, the friggin' stupid press fit bb across the range, the fact that none of them have internal cable guides....

Tbh, if they fit you they are blimmin' comfy and fast but hey, if you pay anything like RRP/SRP they you are very silly and, as I've said before, smash 'em up, just buy another.

Am going to pop to Edwyn's for a sheet of ali and a gossip with Clytheroe of Llannelli.

#prettybutflawed

MattFalle

veronese68 said:

I thought they were supposed to be good. So why do dentists and lawyers pay big bucks for them.

because they buy them from retailers and don't wait the 6 months until the paint schemes are last years and there massively discounted.

#don'tgetmugged

MattFalle

pinno said:

MattFalle said:

pinno said:

Just bung some grab adhesive down the seat tube.

#jobdone.

its not the slipping bit that is the issue - spaffings of carbon paste solves that - its the frame cracking where it wraps around the seat post becauseCervelo never made the seat posts big enough to fill the hole, therefore the shim.

#girth.itmatters

So basically, they are cr4p.

Smash it to bits, set alight to it and chuck...

You know the rest.

not totes cr4p, just badly designed in some major respecrs. So I'd say cr not cr4p.

#hammerfirethrow

MattFalle

MattFalle said:

veronese68 said:

I thought they were supposed to be good. So why do dentists and lawyers pay big bucks for them.

because they believe the hype and buy them from retailers and don't wait the 6 months until the paint schemes are last years and there massively discounted.

#don'tgetmugged

MattFalle

And they have a stupid sloping top tubes which are as ugly as thatcher's heart and a reason in themselves not to buy one.

Its the one visual bit of MF's S3 he doesn't like (which, by the way, now has a new groupset, 'new new 'bars, new new stem and new new wheels as he has got rid of all the tat that came on it) and looks better than every other bike on here apart from Dirk.