Re: [CR]Seat post binder bolt on Chris Kvale bike

(Example: Framebuilders:Norman Taylor)

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:38:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Seat post binder bolt on Chris Kvale bike
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <2e95630d0709070728y6cf0ec93raf9434e1909749a@mail.gmail.com>


> On 9/7/07, Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:*snip* I note that
> it seem to have a most unusual set up for the seat post
> binder bolt. It is
> recessed for a bolt head of some sort on the drive side but
> threaded
> straight through on the other side. *snip*
>
>
> Hi Tom
>
> My True North (off topic, made last year though it does have
> lugs...) has
> just such an arrangement
> It just uses a regular 5mm head allen bolt that threads right
> in
> Dig through your small parts and see if you can't find one
> that fits
> here's a pic, it doesn't show the other side, but it just has
> threads as you
> mention.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=480800078&context=set-72157594508938044&size=l
>
> *warning* carbon content
>
> Hope that helps
> And I agree with the previous poster, the Campy bolt doesn't
> have enough
> threads to engage in my opinion
>
> Rodd Heino

Isn't the seat lug with that sort of bolt arrangement a standard Henry James item? Both my Hollands and Waterford frames are constructed in this manner. Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)

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