I'm interested in putting an M5 hard-shell seat on my Barcroft Virginia GT, which currently has a standard Rans seat with the square channel mount. After searching in the archives of this newsgroup I found a number of messages in which people mention that they've mounted an M5 seat on a Barcroft--but none that explain exactly how they did it.
Thus my email: what mounting hardware do you use? (The standard Rans brackets don't fit because of the ribs on the back&bottom of the M5. A Bacchetta mount won't work because the Barcroft tube is round, not tear-shaped, and because the cable channels are in the wrong place.) Where do you get that hardware? And if you have to modify it, precisely what modifications do you need?
I'm interested in putting an M5 hard-shell seat on my Barcroft Virginia GT, which currently has a standard Rans seat with the square channel mount. After searching in the archives of this newsgroup I found a number of messages in which people mention that they've mounted an M5 seat on a Barcroft--but none that explain exactly how they did it.
Thus my email: what mounting hardware do you use? (The standard Rans brackets don't fit because of the ribs on the back&bottom of the M5. A Bacchetta mount won't work because the Barcroft tube is round, not tear-shaped, and because the cable channels are in the wrong place.) Where do you get that hardware? And if you have to modify it, precisely what modifications do you need?...
There was an article about this conversion by Mike Stern in RCN #79 (November/December 2003).
It should be noted that Mike (Hi Mike!) shows questionable judgement in the article by saying nice things about Ben Fox (Hi Ben!) [1] who did the actual work. 😉
I would comment that RANS should be in all capital letters, but I will refrain from doing so since it annoys some people.
Tom Sherman <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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Mitch Waldrop said:
I'm interested in putting an M5 hard-shell seat on my Barcroft Virginia GT, which currently has a standard Rans seat with the square channel mount. After searching in the archives of this newsgroup I found a number of messages in which people mention that they've mounted an M5 seat on a Barcroft--but none that explain exactly how they did it.
Thus my email: what mounting hardware do you use? (The standard Rans brackets don't fit because of the ribs on the back&bottom of the M5. A Bacchetta mount won't work because the Barcroft tube is round, not tear-shaped, and because the cable channels are in the wrong place.) Where do you get that hardware? And if you have to modify it, precisely what modifications do you need?...
There was an article about this conversion by Mike Stern in RCN #79 (November/December 2003).
It should be noted that Mike (Hi Mike!) shows questionable judgement in the article by saying nice things about Ben Fox (Hi Ben!) [1] who did the actual work. 😉
I would comment that RANS should be in all capital letters, but I will refrain from doing so since it annoys some people.
[1] I eagerly await Ben's return insult. 🙂
Mitch: Tom Sherman is right (as always) about the article. The Virginia was a great bike before the seat conversion and it is even better afterwards. I now have one year and about 2500 miles on the bike after the conversion and Ben's work has withstood everything that the bike encountered. If you want to contact me off line you can do so at [email hidden].
