But integrated clamps are so much prettier! I cringe whenever I see a separate clamp.
A bit more seriously, I myself tend to overtighten, less from being hamfisted than from being impatient and anxious, and I've bent more than one integrated clamp (fixed as Ron says with large screwdriver), and I have snapped at least one sp clamp bolt (I think it was a Campy). If your seatpost is right, and the seat tube and lug is right, it really takes little torque to hold the sp in place -- as I only belatedly discovered and even more belatedly admitted. IME, which is not inconsiderable, it is usually cheap frames and seatposts that tend to slip, though not always -- my Syncros, mentioned earlier, was certainly not cheap. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:45 PM, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch < rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Every time I see a bike with a built-in seat post clamp I cringe a little > bit. I've never been mechanically inclined and just started learning to > work on my own bikes less than two years ago. My only mishaps were > breaking the bolt in one of my Ergon grips (twice!!) and breaking the bolt > in a stem. After the third time I bought one of those 5nM torque wrenches > for the smaller bolts. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
