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I do love Campagnolo seatposts, but 80kg'ers hammering many miles around London's shit roads I've concluded the weak link is the clamp (not the lump on board, honestly guv).
Broken my 3rd lower clamp in 6 years, one exactly same as this and other one both front 'ears' snapped off, and this time sheared clean thro the bolt too. Anyone else broken these? I'm not doing hippy or skinny miles or anything , more of a relentless plodder, approx 65,000 miles in last 8 years. Just alu fatigue from larger gent with sub par eyesight and shit roads?
Have full set now of having broken this clamp on campag alu, ti and carbon posts, the posts of this era all seem to use the same clamp.
Campag do replacements but new hips are cheaper I think. I couldn't even find any in Europe on my brief search. Saw one in USA for 85 dollars, so with taxes and postage over 100, which for something i've proven I will likely break in a couple of years is a bit of a stretch.
Don't suppose anyone has any knackered campag seatposts in their shed with those lower brackets in tact they can sells?
Otherwise looks like i'm better of buying a whole new seatpost on eBay.
Ps if the industrial might of china is listening in, can you make some of these seatpost clamps in steel, in both the 0.5 and 1mm pitch interface versions, I'm sure they'll sell like hot cakes. Id rather more durability than less weight. I'll have 3 please, thanks.
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