Is my butt too big for Ti

[tedsti]

Simple question really.
http://www.morcmtb.org/photopost/data/500/medium/CIMG0618.JPG
http://www.morcmtb.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4040&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=921

The seat post clamp is at the 6" mark, the bend at 11" is supposed to be there. This is after 6 years of use on my hardtail. The seatpost is actually ballooned out a little right above where the clamp was.

[bigwheel]

Welcome to the club. As you get older and "more sturdy", this kind of thing happens more often. Sturdy riders need sturdy bikes.

Do I sense some competition in the Senior Clydesdale class?

[incendiarySYS]

Surly should make seat posts with the fff!;)

[crux]

Have seen quite a bit of Ti. If you were to replace it with another Ti post a few that I could reccomend would be James with Blacksheep or an Erickson post.

Of course there is always the tried and true Thomson post, but that will be stiffer than a ti version.

Will be talking with James later today and will get some pricing info on a post. Let me know if you want to go that route as I can have him throw a post in with a shipment that I have headded this way.

[jjrsds]

Nice, better the post than killing a frame. Off of your Ti SS I assume. I bent two posts in 3 years on my Stumpy hardtail both were Al. I've been having great luck with my Thomson posts 1 is 3 years and the other is 2, both are setbacks.

[DanB]

Six years!!! Bike parts last six years.....crap I'm glad no one ever told my ex-wife that when we were married. She was under the assumption that it was mandatory to replace them every other year. I can't imagine why she thought that? :cool:

You can look at it this way Ted. There is just more of you to love now! :p

Now go watch an artsy fartsy sappy chick flick with John and life will be complete! :D ;)

[tedsti]

This is the post off of my Ti SS. I think the bending happened over time, not all at once.

I have another post that I put on in it's place. I got an extra post under warranty since Airbourne could not figure out that stainless fasteners into Ti does not work.

[soupboy]

James at Black Sheep. <24hr turnaround on custom fab Ti posts using Thomson clamp design. They are available in different gauges for different gravitational pulls. Gorgeous and supple (for a turgid post).

[chiquito]

I will start using that 6 years, as an argument with my wife!!!

Thanks!!!!!

[Danimal]

Marriage, kids, old age, bent seat posts. I see a pattern here. I've been following that pattern too.

I don't know where Bob lies... breaking frames and all :)