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I went with Elite Inox bottle cage, PD-5700 pedals and R078 shoes, waiting for the delivery. Finished rear wheel yesterday evening and started mounting all the components. Everything went quite smoothly, the brake calipers still need fine tuning as they are not moving freely, might have tightened the bolts too much.
But the biggest problem for me is mounting saddle on the seatpost. I'm a calm man but am really close to snapping. I don't have the special bent campy wrench for adjusting the two-bolt seatpost clamp so it's a major pita. I can reach and tighten both bolts with a lot of fiddling but I can't seem to wrap my head around how to adjust the saddle angle. Which bolt should I be tightening first? I seem to get quite random results, none of which is proper setting. And each adjustment takes ages because I can turn the wrench like 1/8 th of a turn before it hits the saddle rails.
Anyone more experienced than me has got a hint?