It is very elegant. I like the S84 so much it's on all my Rivendells...but I'm a big fan of Nitto
On Friday, March 31, 2017 at 9:09:37 AM UTC-5, Tim Gavin wrote: > > Nothing besides price. I love the design of the Nitto S84. > > But the Thomson comes in more sizes; I bought the Thomson setback for a > fat bike that takes a 30.9 mm seat post, a size Nitto doesn't offer in the > S84. > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Steve Palincsar <pali...@his.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> And what's the problem with a normal looking post like the Nitto S84 that >> offers lots of setback? >> >> On 03/31/2017 09:23 AM, Tim Gavin wrote: >> >> Yes, I prefer the aesthetics of that new one. I have one of the kinked >> setback posts and it does its job well. But it's visually dissonant; the >> angle of the kink is totally out of parallel with the the rest of the >> angles on the bike. >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Stuart Lovinggood <slovi...@gmail.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Thomson is coming out with a more traditional setback in 25mm, thank >>> heavens: >>> http://www.cxmagazine.com/thomson-25mm-setback-elite-seatpost-road-cross-gravel-alloy-drop-handlebars >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 2:06:54 PM UTC-5, Tim Gavin wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Joe Bernard <joer...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> The issue with Thomsons is you have to get the bent version to get any >>>>> setback. This can be a problem on Rivs sized for about a fistful of post >>>>> showing. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Exactly. I like Thomson posts, but I don't like the angle of the >>>> setback ones. I wish they'd just make a different setback clamp base on >>>> the straight post. >>>> >>> >>> >> -- >> 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 rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
