Some lugged eagles have landed

July 31, 2008

We got ten 250mm x 27.2 lugged seat posts today, and they'd all been spoken for long ago, so we shipped them out. More coming in about 3 weeks, should be enough for a couple of months, but there are lots of backorders still to fill.
It's a good-looking post, and has an extra 15mm of setback, which seems really useful on most saddles out there, including Brookses, and especially the wider ones.
Almost everybody I know shoves the saddle all the way back and wishes it could go farther still, and this ultra-expensive, $185 post gets you there. It is expensive, but there are carbon posts that cost more (and weigh less, yes--and won't last a tenth as long); and....and...and...things just cost a lot. Nitto makes it, and Nitto is the best component maker in the world. They don't make everything but everything they do make is the best of what it is. Nitto bars cost about 40 percent less than high-end carbon bars that aren't, you know, good. They just show up on expensive bikes and don't weigh much, and yikes. Well, this is about the lugged seat posts. They're in, they're out, and in 3 weeks we'll have them in again. Taking backorders, o'er-n-out.

G