Originally Posted by
mpetry912
you can buy replacement bolts of higher quality for those seatposts.
The new ones broke too when I did that.
The Velo Orange bolt diameter is too small for the application.
I gave up on two bolt seatposts after that, wasn't happy with the 16 NM it took for a Nitto S65 to hold its adjustment, and tracked down a 1995-1997 Campagnolo Record SP10-RE post which worked like the old C-Record Aero post I abandoned to get a round surface for clamping a rack to.