Garth, Your experience, if not the norm, is not uncommon either. I've never had a Campy Super Record or C-Record post which has not slipped sooner or later. I've seen plenty of Campag 2-bolt, and/or Sugino copies on Ebay lately. Bernard Hinault's la Vie Claire team still used the Campagnolo 2 bolt seapost as late as 1985 or 1986. Japanese Keirin racing regulations require the use of 2 bolt posts, hence the Nitto Jaguar, and the Sugino Campy-copy which is still made. DB
garth libre wrote:
> I have been enjoying the highly polished microadjust Campy Super Record seatpost (NOS) for a week now. Each day I go out, when I hit a bump the seatpost adjustment manages to go out (tilt only). I see that the aluminum top piece has a helicoil installed at the factory to keep the threads from self destructing, but any good auto mechanic knows that torque often is the destroyer of fine parts. I am able to return the piece but I am reluctant to give up a find like this. I can estimate from past experience that I have applied from 15 to 20 pounds of force, or more than I would normally apply with a hex wrench to a traditional non-microadjust seat post bolt. 20 pounds of torque seems more than enough to prevent slippage without damage. Has anyone had experience with this type of one bolt design before? The new two bolt design microadjust works fine but is ugly and non classic. The older Campy seems hard to locate. Is this type a mechanical failure destined for the pages of interesting
> but faulty classicism? Garth Libre, still training hard in South Florida.