Originally Posted by
WalksOn2Wheels
Again, 1 or 2 guys on the internet make it sound like the sky is falling. I never heard a single complaint from a customer or a mechanic, including guys who did fits on multiple Trek's a WEEK where adjusting saddle tilt is pretty critical.
Yeah, and some other guy talking about how some
other guys didn't have any complaints is somehow less anecdotal and somehow, therefore, more meaningful? This clamp is universally hated by
end users. And if you google, you'll find plenty of discussions about this. So, you have a couple guys you knew at a shop that "didn't have complaints," I have a bunch of people posting about it in various fora. (For example:
Madone Saddle Tilt Problem...: Triathlon Forum: Slowtwitch Forums
https://nycc.org/message-board/frust...seatpost/50422
...and pretty much every end user I've spoken to hates the damned things.
The sky's not falling, but the clamps are terrible. They make it impossible to adjust tilt and setback individually, they shift the tilt when you tighten them down, the clamp jaws fall out of alignment because they bind before the pressure from the clamp can swivel them both into meeting the rails at the same angle on both sides, and precise fine tuning is also virtually impossible cause you have to dislodge the wedges by banging on them before you can change the angle. (Banging is rarely a precise way of making adjustments.) I could go on. Just excerable design.
Worst clamp I've ever seen. Period.