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I've been toying with the idea of getting a Rust Components titanium layback seatpost to replace my Thomson but I'm a little worried by the clamp.
Unlike their inline version (which seems to have a sensible clamp), the layback post seems to have an opposing bolts design, the downward of which would have it's head up between the saddle rails and consequently appears to have some sort of thumbscrew head. I can't help thinking that this is going to be fiddly to adjust and difficult to get equal tension on the bolts.
Also, in the supplied picture, the head of the upward bolt 'appears' to be out of line with its shaft. It all looks a bit messy where a Thomson style clamp should work.
I was wondering whether anyone had said post and could comment on the functionality of the clamp.
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Lovely looking curved shaft, I must say 😉
Drawn to comment as I had one of these -
which I must say was a pain in the bleedin arse to adjust. You have to get the thumbwheel tight as and then do the bolt up. It was ok, but did come loose on a couple of occasions. 2 bolt just works.
I'd imagine the thumbwheel is just to set the saddle angle - the 'tightness' is achiveed by the torque load on the other bolt beign distributed between the two?
In theory, most definitely.
that type of post usually has a hole either side of the "thumbwheel" thst a small Allen key will fit into and allows easy adjustment with the saddle in situ
Fair enough, perhaps it's not as odd as I thought it was (although I still can't make out what's going on with the bolt on the left hand side); this Torus post has a similar design. The standard 2 bolt "Thomson" style just seems to work though.
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