Originally Posted by
hule
if the tabs crack (and not the seat tube) can't i cut down the tabs and use a seatpost collar?
That's a lot of work to go through. You'd have to cut off the tabs, grind the old welds off, make sure that the metal is cleaned up and round, and find a seatpost collar that will fit. Finding the right collar might be more trouble than finding the proper seatpost.