Schmolke TLO Setback Carbon Road Seatpost - 31.6mm - UD Carbon

The Lightest One with Offset!
Schmolke Carbon expands its TLO series with a seatpost that comes with a 10 mm setback. It is especially interesting for cyclists that like riding compact frames and want to optimize their position on the bike. The seat position moves further behind the bottom bracket and can lead to an improved power transmission from the rider on the drivetrain.

Just like all other products of TLO range the seatpost is manufactured to suit highest loads using the best prepregs available in the market (T1000). Its head clamps the saddle's rails on eight points. The alloy parts have chamfered edges, which, together with the large supporting carbon fibre surface, ensures that even fragile carbon rails are not unduly stressed. The 5 mm Ti6Al4V titanium bolts are anti-fatigue bolts, strong enough even for mountain bike use.

The actual tube's highest stressed sections consists of 19 layers of extremely thin carbon fibre prepreg, while its less stressed sections are sufficiently strong with as little as 10 layers. Unfortunately this is a complicated design, too complicated for cheap Asian production. Seatposts built to a price in China usually come with constant wall-thickness. This makes production easy, it also makes the resulting seatpost heavier than necessary. Seatposts in particular require hundreds and hundreds of destruction tests to arrive at the lightest possible solution for every length and diameter without sacrificing the final products strength.

Notes: Schmolke's seatposts are reinforced where they are stressed by the seat clamp, hence their range of adjustment is limited. Do not buy a long seatpost to cut it to size. They want to adjust strength and length of your seatpost to your requirements as good as possible; hence you need the seatpost length as measured from the top of the frame to the middle of the saddle's rails. Longer seatposts require more raw material, therefore posts longer than 320 mm cost more. For the right length choice please use the following table:

Rider Weight Limit:

• L - to 75 kg
• M - 76 to 95 kg
• S - 96 to 110 kg

Material: Carbon Prepreg (T1000)
Weight supplement: 350 mm - 1k version, manufacturer information