The History Man":wpasyik5 said:
Don’t like them myself. That length is your contact area. So much for minimum insert eh?
Your right ^ the contact area is limited and much has been written about USE posts and the small sleeve / reduced contact area.
In this regard I bought two sleeves and removed the flange on one. Then found the correct height for the post - one that I was comfortable with for ride height, carefully marked the post accordingly and then removed it.
Greased everything up and put both shims on the post before incerting it gently into the frame- bit tricky due to tolerances and very much a one hit (must get it right 1st time) as pulling the seatpost out will leave the lower one behind
The sleeves are easy enough to get out so long as you tube is clean of dirt and your all lube’d up :shock: