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I'd agree with bar and stem, but do have a soft spot for the collars
I'd say that while the stems and posts are simply unnecessary, the collars are actually evil. The correct attributes for a seat post clamp are minimal bending stiffness and a way to keep the screw straight, and the Thomson fails on both counts.
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I'd agree with bar and stem, but do have a soft spot for the collars.
Herein lies the problem though, thomson to you is bike cancer whilst I know plenty of people who view almost all design of carbon collar as an affront to humanity and therefore whatever we chose would be wrong for someone. Also, the reason we didn't add a braze on for front mech is so people could run it 1x without it looking like the wrong bike, so those people would be paying money for something they don't want if we added a front mech adaptor to the build. I see the logic in things people need being available at purchase though, just need to work out the most logical way to do it.