How low can your seatstays go?
Why seatstays have done the limbo, dropping from the traditional junction at the top tube.
Why seatstays have done the limbo, dropping from the traditional junction at the top tube.
The integrated bar-stem combo and seatpost can help save weight, and also reduce road vibrations, adding comfort, but not mass.
Lennard answers questions about Shimano GRX chainline and derailleur adjustment, brake calipers, and also reviews questions about Salsa adjustable seatposts
Agreeable touchpoints are vital for a good fit. But what about the part right under your saddle?
Zipp's Service Course Silver components dress up your bike with a unique visual that breaks free from the blackout trend.
Keen to install your new Contact Switch Dropper Seatpost? Follow these tips for a clean assembly
The ideas are decades old, but the time has finally come for electronic shifting, the 27.5-inch wheel size, and dropper posts
Lennard Zinn also fields reader questions on stripped BB shells and picking seatpost material, and takes recommendations for freezing painful feet
Lennard Zinn answers reader questions on melting carbon
Zinn addresses reader questions about repairing a blown derailleur hanger, shipping carbon seatposts and whether GC riders need aero wheels
Crankbrothers is showing the depth of their knowledge with this cable actuated dropper post
Also: Ti seatposts and dirty shifters
Also: Removing Belgian tape, re-inflating tubeless when traveling and gluing in a slipping seatpost
Zinn answers your questions on not converting to a 29er, rusty frames, and carbon seatposts in Ti frames
A look at Ivan Basso's Cannondale Super Six Evo, and Basso's adjustable-on-the-fly seatpost
A look at the Selle Italia SLR Monolink saddle. Smart design, at a price
LZ weighs in on the when's & why's of saddle replacement
The carbon top cap on the posts can crack.
Feds are recalling about 200 carbon seatposts because the carbon top clamp of the seat post can crack.
Lennard Zinn fields questions about the need for headset top caps and why shortened seatposts don't creak, and shares another long list of potential sources for bicycle mystery noises.
If you've tried everything to remove that stuck seatpost and it's still not budging? Master mechanic Lennard Zinn has a few more suggestions.
The fi’zi:k Cyrano seatpost offers easy adjustment and excellent support for carbon and oversized saddle rails.
How do I remove a seatpost stuck in my frame?
How can I keep water out of my aero frame?
Should I wax my carbon seatpost?
TorqueDear Lennard,I recently purchased my first full carbon bike, absolutely love it. Yet, I'm scared of over-torquing the seatpost clamp. Is there a torque wrench you could recommend that works on Allen wrenches? What's the worst that happens, the seatpost clamp needs replacing or I have this fear of the actual seat tube deforming, I'm not doing the Samsonite luggage monkey torque on it, but "hand tighten" is just too open to quantify.ThomasDear Thomas,First of all, carbon frames generally have a separate band clamp to tighten the seatpost, and, yes, the worst that can happen,
Questions, and suggestions, about stuck seatposts, especially carbon posts
Questions regarding Hincapie's broken steerer and slipping carbon seatposts.
More tire talkDear Lennard,I really enjoyed your recent wet-road tire discussion with Tom Petrie and Alberto De Gioannini. Just the topic I was looking for, but I'm still a little confused. I thought the cord compound made a big difference and it wasn't mentioned at all. I recall racing in the rain in a crit next to a friend who was running cotton-cord sew up tires as opposed to my silks. While we'd been comparable in bike handling otherwise, I found myself nearly sideways in corners while hewent around like on a rail. We'd pumped our tires to comparable pressures.I'm taking a group over for
What is the best seatpost material for a titanium frame?
VeloNews technical writer Lennard Zinn is a frame builder, a former U.S.national team rider and author of several books on bikes and bike maintenance.This is Zinn's regular VeloNews.com column devoted to addressing readers'technical questions about bikes, their care and feeding and how we as riderscan use them as comfortably and efficiently as possible. Readers can sendbrief technical questions directly to Zinn. We'll try to print a representativesample of questions regularly.First, some follow-up from previous columns:Comment on rim weight:Froma July, 2002 column,"As an aside- the old wheels
VeloNews technical writer Lennard Zinn is a frame builder, a formerU.S. national team rider and author of several books on bikes and bikemaintenance. This is Zinn's VeloNews.com column devoted to addressing readers'technical questions about bikes, their care and feeding and how we as riderscan use them as comfortably and efficiently as possible. Readers can sendbrief technical questions directly toZinn. We'll try to print a representative sample of questions regularly.Question: One of my riding partners had a ticking (not a creak)sound in his ride. It would only happen when pedaling