[Closed] Old road bike/fixie seatpost size etc help (post/bars discontinued)

Feel your pain.

In the end, wheeled it into local LBS and just bought the size, which fitted best.

Crocks, ffs!

£3 from B&M - I use them for the sauna

If you don't have a set of vernier calipers, take it to the LBS, who should have an incremental gauge of post diameters, that'll mean you buy the right size.

Oh, and this

Crocks, ffs!

Interesting decking arrangement.

Ah bregante you detected a Fixie/steel build 😀

I only own* steel bikes these days 😀

* shame I can't bloody ride them too.

Are you still stretford way? If so i might have a 1" post in the garage you can try. I bought it for a bike i got out a skip but never fitted it. You're more than welcome to give it a whirl if i can find it

Dave

Saint Retford, yes. Will PM you

I doubt it's old enough to need a 25.4/1" post.

It looks like a mid/late 90s (maybe even early 00s) CIOCC to me. So probably 26.8 or 27.2.

Nice frame - Ciocc possibly made by Giovanni Pelizzoli so almost certainly Columbus tubing and probably 26.8mm or 27.2mm but a decent shop should have a tapered gauge that you simply drop into the tube and read off the diameter. OD of seattube would be 28.6mm. In terms of handlebars, common sizes were 25.8/26.0 and Cinelli's 26.4 and will be dictated by the stem size. Suggest you get rid of the gash seatpost bolt and replace it with the right style Campagnolo one as well as a nice, sloping crown fork. Contemporary stem and bars would be Cinelli/ 3T / ITM

Possibly a san cristobal?
So earlier than i thought. Easy way to tell would be rear drop out spacing.

As for all problems like this Sheldon is your man. (To compare with your measurements of course).

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/seatpost-sizes.html

Supermarket prosecco?

You're dead to me.

CIOCC st cristobal?

It take a rear regular/modern road wheel without any open/priding apart of the dropouts if that helps

I've got a 26.8mm ritchey seatpost sitting in the spares bin you can have if you think it is anywhere close - it is pretty short though, pm me your address if you want it.

Bloody hell. Don't encourage him!
A 26.8 will "fit" in any of the the three likely sizes. Except in two of them it'll be loose and eventually the frame will fail.

Get to a shop with a decent workshop and they'll have the tools to measure accurately. Both bars and seatpost.

And FWIW, if it's new enough to be using a 130 rear wheel, everything on it will still be available. Nothing from that era has been "discontinued". It's just that you don't know what to look for.
You can even get 1" steerer forks from some places.......

Wouldn't the table be more useful the right way up?

if it's new enough to be using a 130

unless it's been cold set to 130mm from 126...

but even so, parts are available easy enough for almost anything from the last 70odd years without much bother.

another +1 million for just go and get it measured properly, even if you get some verniers and measure properly there's still a chance the top's been crimped (or reamed) a bit in the past, a proper tapered seatpost gauge bunged down there is what you need.

That Morton's old frame?

It looks terrible. Fixies should be nice not a bag of spare parts bits

That's the one Podge. It'll look good finished. It's a nice SS commuter not a contestant in a SS festival..

Any places on BPW? Apparently you can buy a pass on the day

unless it's been cold set to 130mm from 126...

hora - Any places on BPW? Apparently you can buy a pass on the day

You can buy a day pass but that's just access to the park and does not include the uplift.