Originally Posted by
TejanoTrackie
I was wondering why the 725 and 735 disappeared from the RG website, but am not surprised that this might be a problem when you try to stress aluminum that way. This was a problem with the old Bianchi Pista Concept, which is why Bianchi went to a separate collar on the new Super Pista. I'm very very very careful when I tighten the seatpost clamp bolt on my Pista Concept.
I just discovered a seatpost collar crack while working on a customer's Pista Concept a few days ago. He was really bummed when I showed him.