Favorite seatpost collar/clamp?

[Keith A]

So what's your favorite seatpost collar/clamp? Salsa, Thomson, etc.

[dave thompson]

Love the Salsas, precise, hold excellent, well designed and colorful.

[thirdgenbird]

Campagnolo. Simple, nice looking, asymmetric, reasonable price.

[bluesea]

KCNC is up there.

[Lionel]

Campagnolo. Great design.

[zoid]

for cheapness. miche x clamp.

for quality, love Thompson.

I do have a hope clamp but it seems a bit thin.

[tv_vt]

Anybody have any issues with Thomsons stripping?

Chris King also makes a nice one.

[JWDR]

I bought a Hope of Ebay for $4 and some change. It's my favorite in 28.6 but Salsa's clamp are almost as nice for less money. I do not care for the thomson seatpost clamp I have. It is too overbuilt and bulky in my view.

[JWDR]

Anybody have any issues with Thomsons stripping?

Chris King also makes a nice one.

I have never seen a Chris king seatpost collar and my relatively quick google search returned nothing. Do you have a pic of it?

[Veloo]

Salsa Lip Lock. Got one on the leisure bike and one on the road.

[binxnyrwarrsoul]

I bought a Hope of Ebay for $4 and some change. It's my favorite in 28.6 but Salsa's clamp are almost as nice for less money. I do not care for the thomson seatpost clamp I have. It is too overbuilt and bulky in my view.

Does Salsa make the 28.6 in any other color but black? Need a red collar for my steel hardtail.

[Brian Cdn]

I'm sticking with seat collars made by Loaded Precision.
Lots of colors..

It's like a piece of bike jewelery. Lightweight and elegant @ 10 gms.

[bianchi10]

Aerozine seatpost clamp. have never had an issue with mine. weighs 9g

[sales guy]

Anybody have any issues with Thomsons stripping?

Chris King also makes a nice one.



Nope and they shouldn't given the bolt and barrel design. If something happened, I have extras of the bolt and barrel kits. Let me know. But they put a 10 degree hole in the clamp to avoid the pressure and stress on the bolt, clamp and tube. Very nice well thought out design. Like all their products.

[Peter P.]

Does Salsa make the 28.6 in any other color but black? Need a red collar for my steel hardtail.

I'm another fan of the Salsa Lip Lock. I have one on my ATB and one on my road bike. The "free to pivot-bolt" is a sound idea.

While it doesn't come in 28.6/red, I see no reason you couldn't spray paint it any color you wanted. I did just that with 2 plastic and 2 aluminum waterbottle cages with excellent results.

[phcollard]

I have never seen a Chris king seatpost collar and my relatively quick google search returned nothing. Do you have a pic of it?

I was surprised too. Never heard of a CK seat clamp before. Confirm please?

[54ny77]

Campy is terrific design, spreads load evenly and on a lot of surface area.

When or if I ever have an issue of seatpost slippage, I put a campy on there and no more problems.

For something unique and assuming no slippage issues, Soul Kozak gets my vote. I've got 'em on a couple bikes. Fairwheel Bikes has 'em now.

http://fairwheelbikes.com/images/soul_collars_04.jpg

[Keith A]

Great input everyone...but I'm liking the color options for the Salsa Lip Lock :)

[corky]

Tune or Extralite available in lotsa colour(ways) and effin light. Tune uses a torx bolt if that matters....

[Shortsocks]

Campagnolo asymmetric is the best. Elegant, simple solid.

And I've got one for sale in the classifieds section. Sealed brand new in bag. :banana:

[kohlboto]

No love for Phil?

[tv_vt]

Anybody have any issues with Thomsons stripping?

Chris King also makes a nice one.


Oops, my bad. Sorry. It's a Phil Wood, not CK. Photo above reminded me (don't have it in front of me). It's interesting, though, that the tapped hole doesn't go all the way through. Anyone know what advantage that would have?

[sales guy]

Reduces the chance of over tightening and crushing the tubing. Can't over tighten if the bolt is bottomed out.

[Keith A]

No love for Phil?Those look nice too...I'll have to check them out.

Campagnolo asymmetric is the best. Elegant, simple solid.

And I've got one for sale in the classifieds section. Sealed brand new in bag. :banana:Those are nice too...but yours is too big :-(

[zetroc]

Campagnolo.

[#campyuserftw]

Campy.
Smart.
Sexy.
Strong.

[Scooper]

I've used DKG, and really like them. They're in Marin County, so local to me. I think their only colors are silver and black.

DKG Bicycle Products (http://www.dkg-cnc.com/bicycle.html)

Sizing (http://www.dkg-cnc.com/sizing.html)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/k4drd/Bicycles/1973%20Super%20Sport%20CJ809208/SeatPostClamp.jpg

[rcnute]

Does Salsa make the 28.6 in any other color but black? Need a red collar for my steel hardtail.

I have a 28.6 in Salsa flip lock (silver) if anyone wants it (fits very skinny seat tubes). I have a blue flip lock and like it a lot; worked very well on a bike with a seat tube that was reamed out a touch too much.

Ryan

[jamesau]

Salsa Lip Lock. The stainless barrel nut / bolt design, craftsmenship, color choices, and size selection is where it's at. That design really works and never annoys with a bent bolt from overtorquing (yeah, I know, shouldn't have to overtorque).

I also liked the thin engraved stainless Litespeed piece that was offered on their early 2000 framesets. It was beautiful, light, more flexible that aluminum, an held fast.

[Shortsocks]

Those look nice too...I'll have to check them out.

Those are nice too...but yours is too big :-(

Damn. :) really though. Campy makes a damn good clamp. KCNC makes a great post too for the price, and it's light: wish it was asymmetric.

It's hard to beat Campy's collar though.

[plattyjo]

I have a Phil Wood one on my new randonneur - it's super nice!

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2824/10043478935_c51033babf_z.jpg

[Javaman]

I like Salsa lip lock, very well made and price is right. But those Phil Woods are super nice!

[cp43]

Does Salsa make the 28.6 in any other color but black? Need a red collar for my steel hardtail.

Doesn't look like Salsa does. However, Hope (http://www.hopetech.com/page.aspx?itemid=SPG317&tab=specification)does make a 28.6 in red. I have one, in another size, which I've been happy with.

Chris

[Lewis Moon]

No love for the IRD?

http://www.jensonusa.com/images/Color-Image/Zoom/309/G0000N5V.jpg

[Keith A]

No love for the IRD?That looks a lot like the Salsa Lip Lock, except for the curvy part up front.

[remman]

I have an old Lexan seatpost from the early 70's on my Tour Du Canada.

[binxnyrwarrsoul]

Doesn't look like Salsa does. However, Hope (http://www.hopetech.com/page.aspx?itemid=SPG317&tab=specification)does make a 28.6 in red. I have one, in another size, which I've been happy with.

Chris

Thanks for the info. I've seen the Hope collars in red, very nice.