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American Classic
Two-Piece Post
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Submitted by
dave
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from Pojoaque NM
Date Reviewed: September 22, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | none obvious | | Weaknesses: | poor design, poor quality | | Similar Products Used: | Thomson, Tune, Syncros | | Bottom Line: | Worst seatpost I have used. Their design of using a little allen head to adjust the seat tilt means that all the weight bears down on that little allen bolt. Makes it wobbly and weak. There are so many good seatposts out there that are equivalent weight and value that there is just no reason to buy American Classic. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Charles
a Cross Country Rider
from Tampa, FL
Date Reviewed: August 30, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Razorback | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$45.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Lightweight. Functional. Adjustable | | Similar Products Used: | Bontrager stuff, stock GT crap, Easton | | Bottom Line: | Seat bolt came loose a few times on my first ride with it. Some blue lock tite solved that with no problems since. Its a very simple solution an it blows my mind that more people dont use this simple, stupid fix for loose bolts.
It works well, its very light, and very reasonably priced to boot. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ski
a Cross Country Rider
from Boulder City NV USA
Date Reviewed: February 22, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Powerpole | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$32.00 | | Purchased At: | Airbomb | | Strengths: | Lightweight , nice finish , dirt cheap | | Weaknesses: | bolt came loose once, blue loctite fixed that | | Similar Products Used: | Ringle Moby Post , Dean Ti | | Bike Setup: | Dual squishy | | Bottom Line: | I have had no problems with the post since using the Blue Loc-tite . it's light and cheap and it looks good . I ride lots of XC and road miles ,and I've crashed lots of times with this post but no real hard diggers. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Michael
a Weekend Warrior
from Port Richey, Fl, USA
Date Reviewed: October 25, 2005 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Lightweight, sorta cheap | | Weaknesses: | none so far | | Similar Products Used: | post moderne suspension seatpost | | Bottom Line: | SO far I haven't had the trouble others have had with this seatpost. I will say that my bike is having a hard time gripping the post, though I'd say thats more the bikes fault then the seatpost. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dan Sturton
a Weekend Warrior
from Stuttgart, Germany
Date Reviewed: July 2, 2004 | | Favorite Trail: | anything with hills | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | came stock on bike | | Strengths: | Bolts hold tension on seat rails ok. pretty sturdy | | Weaknesses: | seatpost head rotates whatever you do to it! Sqeaks quite a lot whatever you do to it as well | | Similar Products Used: | airborne, titec | | Bike Setup: | '02 kona explosif, standard except XTR hubs (got 'em cheap, still too "cool" for me), mavic X517 rims, avid single digit 7 v's, race face riserbar, Schwalbe Light Tyres which have a magnetic and masochistic attraction to thorns, nails, glass, etc. - got to go. | | Bottom Line: | If this post comes with your bike, swap it out. It will probably work loose at the join between the post and the posthead and then swivel just when you don't want it to. Looks like there's a rivet that holds the two together, so no obvious way of tightening it. Tried liberally squirting superglue into the rivet and inside to no avail - just got bits of flakey dried glue rattling round in my tubing a few weeks later. The sqeaking's pretty annoying too. Really must take my own advice and get round to changing it | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
ted
a Cross Country Rider
from ft. lauderdale, fl
Date Reviewed: December 2, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | markham park(fl) & rocky point (LI) | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | it holds your seat | | Weaknesses: | squeaks like crazy! | | Bike Setup: | kona explosif, cromoly. bomber, xt/xtr, velocoraptor tires, wheel s change bi monthly | | Bottom Line: | I weigh 155 lbs wet, I ride XC, I know how to tighten bolts. This seat post full on sucks. it squeaked after I tightened it, it squeaked after the bike shop tightened it. don't buy this seat post, trade it out if it comes on your bike before you take it home. If i could give this post all zeros i would. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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