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[ridenfish39]

Any plans to expand to other frame models in the future? Like a SuperSix Evo?

For whatever reason, Darimo is ignoring the SuperSix Evo Gen 4 (despite offering a seatpost for the prior Gen 3), so if you do develop a Gen 4 post, I suspect you will find significant demand.

Nah. IMO SSE4 is a dead end. Cannondale is now in third? fourth? iteration of the seatclamp and yet some users still complain about creaking.
No sensible third party company would take the risk of creating a product to then have complaints about the seatpost creaking because of their supposedly "faulty" product.

Meanwhile I’ve done like 8,000 miles on mine without a single creak or even any maintenance. Set it when I bought the bike and haven’t touched it since.

I have about 5000 on mine, most with a Hylix post, and I don't have any issues either

[mike]

the sl8 seat post is 14 grams lighter than darimo and has nice paint job as well! great job alpitude!

[mrlobber]

Soooo... when will that SL8 beauty become available?

[handler]

Or the Ostro in zero setback?

[CustomMetal]

Or the dogma in set back

[Tpduke112]

Soooo... when will that SL8 beauty become available?

With a 0 offset

[StephanDoubleU]

I've been very happy with my Alpitude parts. See the bottle cages and garmin mount on my SL8. Will be interesting to see what else is developed!

The problem I have with mine is that it keeps coming loose. I've already tried threadlocker without much success.

[Schoenrock]

please make a round seatpost... I need it for my Aethos build!

[ilco]

Pre-order and price here :

https://www.bespokecycling.com/shop/pro ... tarmac-sl8

February 2025

[wheelsONfire]

please make a round seatpost... I need it for my Aethos build!

Gemini Älsak is what you ask for.

[polpy]

please make a round seatpost... I need it for my Aethos build!

Gemini Älsak is what you ask for.

Dont you think it would look terrible on an Aethos with the bulky upper part?

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[wheelsONfire]

please make a round seatpost... I need it for my Aethos build!

Gemini Älsak is what you ask for.

Dont you think it would look terrible on an Aethos with the bulky upper part?

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No i don't. I think this might be the best option for weight and quality. Form and function have to win here IMO. But sure, if you really want something slender i ain't arguing. I myself actually went for the performance over light weight. I prefer to safer route when it comes to seatposts.
Otherwise i feel the smartest seatposts are Bike ahead. They have a coating, so they don't slip at all. You can adjust the seatpost and torque it like 3nm and it remains perfectly still.

[Schoenrock]

please make a round seatpost... I need it for my Aethos build!

Gemini Älsak is what you ask for.

Dont you think it would look terrible on an Aethos with the bulky upper part?

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No i don't. I think this might be the best option for weight and quality. Form and function have to win here IMO. But sure, if you really want something slender i ain't arguing. I myself actually went for the performance over light weight. I prefer to safer route when it comes to seatposts.
Otherwise i feel the smartest seatposts are Bike ahead. They have a coating, so they don't slip at all. You can adjust the seatpost and torque it like 3nm and it remains perfectly still.

Thank you for the recommendation! I checked them both out and I agree with the previous comment - I think the bulky upper doesn't really fit with the Aethos vibe, especially considering the thin seatstays. The Bike Ahead one looks really cool, but is also 60g heavier than something like Darimo, however their quality and finishing isn't one to be desired either....

So if Alpitude could build one that's somewhere in the middle... that would be awesome! Straight and clean design, somewhere around 90-100g maybe? Please do it! <3

[Co0kieMonster]

Pre-order and price here :

https://www.bespokecycling.com/shop/pro ... tarmac-sl8

February 2025

Even if it was obvious that the post would not be cheap, that would be about 500 € for a seatpost. I hope that won't happen ...

[Aeo]

one that's somewhere in the middle...

What is wrong with the Elita One seatpost? 130 grams advertised in 27.2x350, comes in underweight a lot of times. 30€ on Aliexpress

Darimo, Schmolke and Gemini are under 100 grams. Bjorn, Bike Ahead, Mcfk and so on are in the 120 gram range, even Grigio Carbonio is just around the 100 gram mark