I'm quite sure it is Hupel Rider and I found the confirmation.
http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/
I had never seen the long version, let alone a 27.0. I remembe these boxes, the instructions and wrench. The U shaped piece is to close up the saddle rails for easier installation.
The Japanese Yahoo price is not chicken feed and I guess I take back my comment about the finish being mediocre.
Very mysterious about wherever this maker of quality forged seatposts went.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
> I believe that the cyrillic, would be pronounced "sport" in
\r?\n> Russian. I travelled three times to Russia for work in the early
\r?\n> 90s, but this extrapolates beyond my real understanding of the
\r?\n> language.harvey sachs
\r?\n> mcLean va
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Jack,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Every original World Voyageur I seen wes equipped with that
\r?\n> seatpost.
\r?\n> Mine looks like:
\r?\n> 26.6
\r?\n> Cr[symbol for 'pi']ep
\r?\n> Rider
\r?\n> Harvey Sachs once told me that he thought the characters were
\r?\n> Russian/Cyrillic; fairly good immitations of the Campy NR seatpost.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Rick Cool
\r?\n> Two World Voyageurs
\r?\n> City of Fairfax, VA
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> >>Subject: [CR]World Voyageur Seatpost
\r?\n> >>
\r?\n> >>This '72-'73 MIJ Schwinn World Voyager has a weird seatpost. In
\r?\n> addition to
\r?\n> >>diameter, it is marked with two words: The first word has
\r?\n> strange characters
\r?\n> >>that resemble Cyrillic; capitol C - strange looking cap Y - pi
\r?\n> symbol -
\r?\n> >>strange cap E - cap P. The second word is longhand script
\r?\n> "Rider". Bike appears to
\r?\n> >>have all original japanese components. I was just wonderin' if
\r?\n> anyone else
\r?\n> >>has seen one?
\r?\n> >>
\r?\n> >>Jack Romans
\r?\n> >>Sacramento, CA