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Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £114.99 on Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost review we’re going to look at why it scores 8.9/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 188 products in the Seatposts category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

8.7

Price

9.7

Reviews

8.2

Overall

8.9

 

Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost reviews

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Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost Specification

Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost specs

Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost
Feature 1

Material: Unidirectional Carbon Fibre post, AL-7050 Alloy clamp head

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 2

Feature 2

Length: 400mm

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 15

Feature 3

Setback: 20mm

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 6

Feature 4

Torque for saddle rails: 7.0Nm

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 2

Feature 5

Minimum insertion length: 100mm

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 2

Feature 6

Weight: 249g

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 2

Spec 1

Colour: Matte Black Decals, Matte White Decals

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 2

Spec 2

Option: Setback

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 15

Spec 3

Length: 400mm

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 6

Spec 4

Material: Aluminium

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 2

Spec 5

Diameter: 27.2mm, 31.6mm

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 2

Price

£114.99

Number of Reviews
Review Score

/ 5

Average score in category: 4.2

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  • . The Service Course SL Setback from Zipp shows off some of the finest technologies available and raises the benchmark once again for high-quality seatposts. This stunning component is made from carbon that’s specially tuned to be more shock absorbing than other generic comfort seatposts on the market Micro-Adjust Seatpost. Thanks to its superior fit design, every pedal stroke counts and isn’t wasted due to an out of position saddle. Its secure, two-bolt clamp allows for easy micro-adjustments of saddle position, and its head has been redesigned for maximum bolt head accessibility. This stunning seatpost has 20mm of setback and is perfect for pushing your performance to the max and its clamp is compatible with all saddle rail types Features: Material: Unidirectional Carbon Fibre post, AL-7050 Alloy clamp head Length: 400mm Setback: 20mm Torque for saddle rails: 7.0Nm Minimum insertion length: 100mm Weight: 249gBuy Zipp Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 710845821325
  • 00.6818.034.001

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Seatposts.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 188 different products in the Seatposts category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 135 products from Zipp (although only 4 of the 135 are in the Seatposts category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Seatposts. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Zipp. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Seatposts. There are 188 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 188, the average price is £90.60. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £3.46 and most expensive was £620.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Zipp. The average price was £865.06 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £5 up to £3149.99 with Zipp products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Zipp products that appear specifically in the Seatposts category. So you can see that the price of Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost at £114.99 is great value considering the average price of Zipp Seatposts is £110.52 and the price varies from £35.99.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £114.99 which represents a £41.00 or 26% saving against RRP. If you think Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Seatposts too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find reviews scoring it out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Zipp. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Seatposts category is 4.2 and the average score of products from Zipp is 4.4 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Zipp in the Seatposts category the average review score is 4.5.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost such a high overall score of 8.9 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are reviews for Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost which score it , so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Zipp Service Course SL Setback Seatpost or in fact any of the other Seatposts, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.