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Title: Identify this seat post
Post by: AxlFoley on February 21, 2008, 08:40 AM: hello, can any one help me identify this seat post? sorry for the bad photo its all i have.

Thanks

Mark
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/s238/AxlFoley16v/mongoose/97899414_af6124a080.jpg)
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: AxlFoley on February 21, 2008, 08:41 AM: p.s. it not round, it is like a cog.
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: aerostylie on February 21, 2008, 01:46 PM: Hi again bud..... I believe it's a fluted seatpost......and yep I'm after one as well :)

Paul :)
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: JT71 on February 21, 2008, 01:52 PM: a fluted layback? i've never seen one of those. cool.

i must say it doesn;t look fluted in that pic.
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: AxlFoley on February 21, 2008, 02:05 PM: yeah aws deffo a fluted layback, i' think i'll have to have a look arround, i may still have it somewhere!!!
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: 2020mad on February 21, 2008, 02:14 PM: could it have been heated and bent in a vice ?
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: AxlFoley on February 21, 2008, 02:44 PM: nah i had the bike from new, it was like it from the factory
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: 2020mad on February 21, 2008, 02:54 PM: ok thats that theory out the window. i thought the idea of the fluted post was to make stonger so it would not bend.
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: MartyC on February 21, 2008, 08:25 PM: Quote from: 2020mad on February 21, 2008, 02:54 PM
ok thats that theory out the window. i thought the idea of the fluted post was to make stonger so it would not bend.

I always thought it was to save weight :-\ ;)
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: kuwahero on February 21, 2008, 10:53 PM: I had a haro fluted layback seatpost that I bought from US ebay about a year ago.

so they are out there
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: AxlFoley on February 22, 2008, 08:35 AM: and here is the proof, thanks ebay :P
(http://i18.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/db/aa/7a13_1.JPG)
(http://i18.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/db/aa/7a56_1.JPG)

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Haro fluted seatpost. Repowered and stickered by c4. Not finishing build. See other auctions for frame, stem, and bars. Perfect shape and ready to go. Bid away and good luck. If bidding makes it over $200 free shipping will apply.
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: jimwise68 on February 22, 2008, 08:45 AM: Quote from: MartyC on February 21, 2008, 08:25 PM
Quote from: 2020mad on February 21, 2008, 02:54 PM
ok thats that theory out the window. i thought the idea of the fluted post was to make stonger so it would not bend.

I always thought it was to save weight :-\ ;)

I thought they were to play tunes on?

Curiously did it go for over $200, and if so did you get free shipping?
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: vdubferret on February 22, 2008, 08:50 AM: Yep, me think Haro too! Have one on o/s ride & do see em coming up on the bay, tho usually from Thailand with free postage & luvulongtime etc. :)
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: AxlFoley on February 22, 2008, 08:53 AM: its still on ebay, although i dont think it will go for $200!!
Title: Re: Identify this seat post
Post by: bmx2000 on February 22, 2008, 09:12 AM: hi, i used to have a fluted snake post, rad.

Nice Mongoose Decade, not sure about the stand tho.