Problem resolved (for now). The seatpost refusing to cooperate on my commute home, I stopped at "Bike Pro," a very high-end bike shop in Georgetown at the foot of Key Bridge, to see if they had any friction paste that would at least hold the post in place until I got home. Mind you, this is one of those establishments where you go to drop $10,000 on an S-Works, Project One, etc., so I wasn't expecting much of a reception with a Riv under tow. I walked my bike in the front door and there, leaning against the far wall was... ...the only other Hunqapillar living in the D.C. area . Talk in the shop stopped when I came in (the only thing missing was the sound of a scratching record) and one of the salespeople walked quickly to the back of the shop to fetch the tech, Keith, owner of the other Hunq, who also couldn't believe that a near-twin of his bike had just come into the shop. (To those not of the east coast, where Rivs are rarely seen, this was a coincidence of near astronomical proportions.) Long story short, he pulled the seatpost and confirmed that the tolerances were a bit loose, but that the chief culprit was the brake hanger, which was blocking the seat tube from tightening all the way. He dremeled about 1/16th of an inch from the tube slot, which allowed it to tighten sufficiently, applied a liberal helping of friction paste, and reset the post. It seems to have done the trick; at least, the seat stayed in place for the remainder of my 15 miles home. To find a tech who's also a Hunq owner clearly showed the hand of God (a welcome sign in these uncertain times) :) Kevin
On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 8:46:33 PM UTC-4, Eric Daume wrote: > > My Gunnars are three for three on slipping seat posts (and also 3/3 on > chipping paint). I'm not overwhelmed by Waterford's quality. > > My Surly Cross Check's post has never slipped (and the powder cost still > looks great after six years) > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:30 PM, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I've heard quite a few comments about Gunnar's having problems with >> slipping seatposts. >> >> This seems like an unacceptable level of QC on Waterford's part and on >> Rivendell's part. If they know a percentage of a batch of Hunq's from >> Wisconsin are out of spec, they need to be pulling every one of those >> framesets and checking them and sending them back, at Waterford's expense. >> >> I know that if I scrimped and saved long enough to buy a Rivendell and it >> had the problems the OP's is having, I would be extremely upset. >> >> >> >> On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 2:53:09 PM UTC-5, RonaTD wrote: >>> >>> It's far more likely that the frame is the problem than the seat post. >>> Classic Waterford issue. Ask me about all the 27.4 seat posts I had to buy. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
