I want to tilt my saddle up but...
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I want to tilt my saddle up but...
because I don't it think it does! I see the bolt under the saddle for moving it forward/backward but that's it. Am I missing something here?
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The bottom half of the rail clamp is wedged tight on the seatpost. After loosening that bolt give your saddle a sharp karate chop. That should loosen things up.
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Nah, I can loosen the rail bolt no problem. I just don't get how to tilt the saddle.
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That's the one! You need to loosen it MORE. Just enough to raise the top half of the clamp awayf rom the lower half cause it interlocks with grooves and slots formed into the top of the post where the clamp seats.
Roadfix is right, if you don't loosen it very much, karate chop it into place. Or loosen it more.
Some clamps have two bolts. You can loosen this one and tighten that one to tilt up and down. Usually on the better posts like a Tompson post ($80).
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That's the one! You need to loosen it MORE. Just enough to raise the top half of the clamp awayf rom the lower half cause it interlocks with grooves and slots formed into the top of the post where the clamp seats.
Roadfix is right, if you don't loosen it very much, karate chop it into place. Or loosen it more.
Some clamps have two bolts. You can loosen this one and tighten that one to tilt up and down. Usually on the better posts like a Tompson post ($80).
Roadfix is right, if you don't loosen it very much, karate chop it into place. Or loosen it more.
Some clamps have two bolts. You can loosen this one and tighten that one to tilt up and down. Usually on the better posts like a Tompson post ($80).
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Dannyq, I've learned way more from questions like yours than answers like ttopaz's.
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dannyq,
If that doesn't work, try posting a picture in case you have an unusual seat/seatpost situation.
BTW, I was in Halifax one year during the Busker(sp) festival and it was absolutely great. Hope to get back to Nova Scotia some time.
Good luck.
If that doesn't work, try posting a picture in case you have an unusual seat/seatpost situation.
BTW, I was in Halifax one year during the Busker(sp) festival and it was absolutely great. Hope to get back to Nova Scotia some time.
Good luck.
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Most threads have some many nonsense replies, he'd have to read thru 50 stupid replies to get an answer. At least this way, he can get 3 or 4 good ones and one bad!
Besides, if everybody searched old topics, reading the forum would be like wathcing I Love Lucy re-runs. Modern day tv and movies are all remakes and reuse of the same old jokes and topics. Works there, why can't it work here?
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Others noted how to do it. It's really good idea to take a sharpie and put a mark across the two serrated parts, so you can tell where it was before.
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The busker festival is starting next week!
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Most threads have some many nonsense replies, he'd have to read thru 50 stupid replies to get an answer. At least this way, he can get 3 or 4 good ones and one bad!
Besides, if everybody searched old topics, reading the forum would be like wathcing I Love Lucy re-runs. Modern day tv and movies are all remakes and reuse of the same old jokes and topics. Works there, why can't it work here?
Besides, if everybody searched old topics, reading the forum would be like wathcing I Love Lucy re-runs. Modern day tv and movies are all remakes and reuse of the same old jokes and topics. Works there, why can't it work here?
I hate the "do a search" replies.
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That happened to me once.
Once you turned the seatpost the right way, all the problems will be solved.
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Anyway dannyq, you just encountered one of my pet peeves about cycling mechanical stuff, that darned saddle adjustment bolt and block. The use of a single bolt to adjust both saddle pitch and horizontal slew is the very definition of "inelegant" and you are justified in being temporarily stymied by it. I have been cycling for five decades and still lay down a barrage of blashpemy and scatology when I try to adjust one. But then I can't chew gum and chew gum simultaneously.
Anyway dannyq, you just encountered one of my pet peeves about cycling mechanical stuff, that darned saddle adjustment bolt and block. The use of a single bolt to adjust both saddle pitch and horizontal slew is the very definition of "inelegant" and you are justified in being temporarily stymied by it. I have been cycling for five decades and still lay down a barrage of blashpemy and scatology when I try to adjust one. But then I can't chew gum and chew gum simultaneously.