Mark J. Ginsberg

Friends,

so saturday I posted the "carbon seat post/ carbon frame question"

here is an overview of answers and what I did.

First off, many of you FAIL reading comprehension. The question was carbon/carbon.
so while the other answers about steel, aluminum, bamboo, paper, rubber bands and string theory were interesting, they were as on point as any complaint about MASTERS RACING.

There were 3 camps on what to do:
1. The Eric Valdegen/Mike Quetel do nothing, or maybe some grease and it will be fine camp. Many people said they just screwed the parts together, and have had no complaints, and no slipping seatposts. This was the majority of respondants. That does not mean this is the right answer, just that people answered this way frequently.
2. The what was the questions people who will be ignored here, and
3. The former/current shop employee/Peter Drake group who suggested carbon prep (tacx/ritchey/some other) and a torque wrench.

Carbon prep has little tiny ball bearings of some type that are soft, so you put it on and screw parts together and the little tiny ball bearings yell out in pain, no that's not ture, really they just flatten out a little.

So props go to River City bikes for having carbon prep in stock (at the same price as those on-line no help to you shops) and also selling me a little preset ritchey torque wrench. They were actually out of retail stock, but were willing to sell me one of their two that there mechanics were using, so I could finish my bike.

the prep was $12.00 the wrench retails for $20.00
Seemed like a very reasonable investment for a bicycle worth much more than that.

Mark Ginsberg

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