THOMSONBike Products inc Patentsattelstütze Elite Patented seat Post

I like it! I got the setback post and was really impressed with the quality. The aluminum is machined with tiny “ribs” and came pretty shiny. When you open the package, it is contained within a custom cloth bag. Not sure what to do with the bag now, but it does add to the sense of quality that the company is trying to portray. The dimensions were spot on so that it was relatively easy to slip into the frame but also easy to tighten down securely. The ribs hold grease in them when so that’s a plus. At one point, I had to remove it. It slid out fairly easy without having to wiggle it . The nice thing was that the ribs seem to mask the cross marks that you usually get when wiggling out a seatpost, so it still looks good after a couple installs/removals. The seat mounting system is also pretty good. It holds securely and isn’t too bad to adjust (there are others that are much more fussy). I’m not sure what the bolt materials are. My guess is that they are some sort of high strength steel. I kind of wish these were stainless. I wonder what type of corrosion resistance they will have long term and how compatible the material/coating is with the anodized aluminum. The other notable feature is the manufacturer of the post itself. This isn’t an ordinary seatpost with a uniform wall thickness, like a tube or pipe. The shaft has variable thickness walls. The walls are much thicker on the front and back side of the shaft and thinner on the left and right sides. This explains a good deal of the extra expense for this seatpost. I don’t know if they draw the aluminum to get that profile or if they machine out the center, but it is really unique and not as easy as using regular, stick tubing to manufacture. They claim that this helps in the event that the seatpost fails. Instead of failing catastrophically (kinking and bending suddenly), they say that their seatpost will instead start to yield before it totally fails. I’m not sure I really need that in a seatpost so that function is probably lost on me with the type of riding I do. I don’t feel like it adds any type of dampening to my ride either. But, it’s a very quality built seatpost with hood looks and decently light, so it’s a win for me!

Great service and love the seat post

I'm a big Clydesdale+ rider and have learned not to trust the safety of my 'boys' to anything but Thomson. Never a bit of trouble.

Bought this for a 650b mountain bike build and I couldn't be happier. Great looks and the machining is excellent. Will definitely buy again

Its completely adjustable, not sure what the other two were talking about if they knew how to set it correctly they fit fine. Ill try to add photos to confirm the same, best seatpost youll ever buy. Too much to go into detail as to why, its lighter than most carbon seatposts and stronger. You wont bend this one.

Despite what the other reviewer says about Thomson posts, they are the best. I've been riding for almost two decades and you won't find better quality components anywhere than Thomson. They are the only post or stem that I will use and I own at least a dozen of them. I've never had an adjustment issue and once you have it set...forget about it. Plus, it is made in USA.

I am tall and wanted to have a setback seatpost for my mountain bike to have a more comfortable ride. Thomson is, apparently, well received by the biking community and so I thought I would give Thomson a try. As one of the previous reviewers stated and that I now find to be true, the setback seatpost was formed by merely bending a straight seatpost. Due to this design lapse of thoughtfulness, it is impossible to cant my current seat forward of horizontal. The only options that remain (if there are others, please start a discussion to let me know how to remedy this problem) is for me to buy a different seat that has rails attached to the saddle in such a way that the saddle has a natural forward cant of its own, or I need to invent some kind of metal shims that allow further forward tilt. Ninety dollars is kind of an expensive seatpost to have to then modify to function properly. I hope that Thomson reads these reviews to know that their design is deficient and needs to be modified to create a truly adjustable, setback seatpost.

The Thomson Elite seatpost with setback is a poorly designed seatpost with zero forward angle tilt. It is obvious that all Thomson did to "design" this seatpost is kink an angle into the tube of the Thomson Elite seatpost without setback and then call it good. What the "designers" at Thomson failed to realize is that if you angle the tube back then you have also changed the angle possibilities of the "infinitely" adjustable seat clamp at the top of the tube. The major problem with this failed geometric design is that when the seat is tilted all the way forward it is parallel to the ground making a forward tilt past parallel a physical impossibility.Thomson missed the mark when they designed this seatpost. If you want a seatpost that has any forward tilt adjustability at all then this is not the seatpost for you.

The fore and aft screws on a Thomson seatpost make adjustments exceedingly easy. Other seat posts with two screws often have one on each side requiring both to be loosened to allow adjustment. Seatposts with single screws do not offer the same amount of security in holding the saddle still. The layback on this post is also ideal with Brooks' saddles which I tend clamp closer to the front of the rails than my other saddles