Thank you all for the helpful comments. This bike is fairly new to me, but it does look like the ears at the top of the seat tube are slightly pinched, and the previous owner was using a smaller seat post size. I'll see if I can carefully pry it open for a 27.2 seat post.
On Friday, May 24, 2024 at 8:52:53 AM UTC-7 John Dewey wrote: > I had a severaL great / memorable years working for RS in south central > WI. A time and place for everything, right? > > Can confirm some WF issues with seatpins...of course, always smart to keep > some old beer can shims handy. And when they're too tight, not so > desirable—really scuffs up an otherwise beautiful (and $$$) Nitto bit. > > Jock > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 8:25 AM Ted Durant <tedd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 8:19:16 PM UTC-5 Zac wrote: >> >> Can anyone confirm the seat post on their Heron Road is 27.2mm? >> >> All of the ones made under my watch were 27.2 nominally, but the W'ford >> reamer was a bit out of spec and some of them needed 27.4 posts to keep >> from slipping. I'm pretty sure the 27.2 spec stayed through the Todd Kuzma >> era. >> >> The "ears" on the Heron seat clusters will bend inward if the seat post >> bolt is over-tightened, which it has to be if you have one of the 27.4 >> frames. I ended up breaking a seat post bolt because of that. >> >> Ted Durant >> Milwaukee WI USA >> >> -- >> > 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. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/fb012566-05d5-4b76-9a90-fbaef93aa12cn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/fb012566-05d5-4b76-9a90-fbaef93aa12cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6b0c3fcb-12f6-4bb0-99fd-b9b5a5540762n%40googlegroups.com.
