Bicycle Mechanics - Difficulty adjusting seat angle w/Bontrager post

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Chef23
09-01-04, 01:23 PM
I have a bike with a Bontrager Sport seatpost. I can't get the seat angly to adjust. I took the seat off and it looks like their is a piece that should rotate but it appears to be fixed. Am I missing something obvious. My seat is slanted forward a little and I need to level it off.

Here is a picture of the stem

http://www.bontrager.com/posts/detail.asp?id=159&pt=8

seely
09-01-04, 01:34 PM
The piece in the middle of the sanwhich should be slotted where the clamp bolt goes through. It has to be pretty loose to rotate on a lot of seatposts
Chef23
09-01-04, 01:52 PM
The piece in the middle of the sanwhich should be slotted where the clamp bolt goes through. It has to be pretty loose to rotate on a lot of seatposts

I took the whole thing off and couldn't get the slotted piece to rotate. Do you think it is just stuck in place and it needs a little whack to come loose?

seely
09-01-04, 02:24 PM
Yup... grease it after you take it apart, it should have a light coat of grease on it anyways.
Chef23
09-01-04, 09:26 PM
Yup... grease it after you take it apart, it should have a light coat of grease on it anyways.

Thanks seely. I gave it a light tap with a hammer and it popped right loose.