Altura Arran on carbon seat post

[Thegreatthor]

I've got a seat post pack mid size which I'd like to fit to my bike which has a fas carbon seatpost.

Is this safe? It won't be heavily loaded. A jacket and a sandwich! I'm thinking it should be bot I know that some people are hesitant about carbon posts.

I'm not really interested in what the manufacturers say. More interested in what people have actually done and has worked.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Carbon fibre is used on aircraft that weigh as much as a small planet. It is used on race cars that pump put 750BHP and accelerate from 0-200 and brake back down to 0 again in less than 20 seconds.

It is not going to cower in the corner at the sight of your rain jacket and cheese sarnies..

 

[Thegreatthor]

Carbon fibre is used on aircraft that weigh as much as a small planet. It is used on race cars that pump put 750BHP and accelerate from 0-200 and brake back down to 0 again in less than 20 seconds.

It is not going to cower in the corner at the sight of your rain jacket and cheese sarnies..

Just as I thought, many thanks.

 

[Mr Celine]

Think what will happen if you eat your sandwich and put on your rain jacket. You will become heavier and put the same load on the seatpost.

But if you've put the rain jacket on because it's raining the carbon fibre seat post will dissolve anyway.

 

[Mrs M]

I've got a seat post pack mid size which I'd like to fit to my bike which has a fas carbon seatpost.

Is this safe? It won't be heavily loaded. A jacket and a sandwich! I'm thinking it should be bot I know that some people are hesitant about carbon posts.

I'm not really interested in what the manufacturers say. More interested in what people have actually done and has worked.

Far as I know you must not attach a pack to a carbon post! As per th " carbon police"

 

[Globalti]

Be more worried about the pack fretting and wearing away the lacquer on the post. Wrap it in vinyl tape wherever it could get damaged.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Buy a seatpack that clips to the saddle rails and doesn't contact the post.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/scicon-phantom-230cc-team-edition/

 

[Thegreatthor]

Buy a seatpack that clips to the saddle rails and doesn't contact the post.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/scicon-phantom-230cc-team-edition/

I've got one like that, a bit bigger in fact.

2 problems-

I want to mount a light there and not big enough.

I've got a altura Arran I want to use for longer audax type rides.