Others might know more about this but on mine I had to cut down the front scew a milimeter or two to give it more clearance. That seemed to allow me to lower the tip of the saddle. I have an Arione just as an FYI.

OK I'll have to try that... thanks

Gerard....what say you?

Did it work out for you? I got my Soloist today and can't get my Arione where I want it. You cut down the front screw with the head in the rearward (road) position, correct?

Yes. In the forward position it worked fine. But the road position is when I had the same problems. Cervelo was coming out with a new screw to fix the issue but I have not checked with them in a while. Best of luck

i dont have a soloist, but a p2 with the 'flippable' post (i use the rear position), and used an Selle Italia SLR, and i had to do the same thing as wokster.

not an easy thing to do without a grinder. i used a hacksaw and clamped the screw between blocks of wood to protect it.

looks like a design oversight of cervelo seat post heads.

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Where would you want to swim ?

see my post above. the carbon post on the soloist and p2 is the same and the seat tube geometry is similar, so the problem shows up on both bikes.

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Where would you want to swim ?

I didn't get the Arione or SLR tri to work in the rear position, but I got the regular SLR to work fine. I cut down the screw and ordered a spare one plus a spare head to use for my tri saddle from all3sports.com (much cheaper shipping than cervelo.com to US customers.)

The shorter screw worked great on the SLR and I was finally able to snug it all the way down in front to get the saddle level. Not as simple as a THomson post or anything, but with the spare seat-post head for my tri saddle, I don't anticipate having to touch those bolts for a while.