seat adjustment question
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seat adjustment question
i see mentioned often about tilting the nose up or down, but i cant find an adjustment for this. i can see how to move it up or down and back and forth.
am i blind and missing another adjustment, or am i misunderstanding what folks mean?
thanks
am i blind and missing another adjustment, or am i misunderstanding what folks mean?
thanks
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If you have a single bold seatpost, loosen it quite a bit and try jolting everything loose. Both halves of the seat 'clamp' should freely tilt. Other seatpost designs use secondary bolt(s) for tilt adjustment.
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Usually there is a curved piece with lots of little notches at the top of the seatpost which will allow you to tilt the saddle. What seatpost do you have?
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It's an american classic seatpost, least thats what it says on it
thanks for the help guys, hopefully i'll get a chance to play with it tonite, just got a new brooks i need to put on. and i want to try and make some adjustments. i have pain in my sit bones within an hour of riding, after about 2 hours i start to get numbness in the extremities, after after 3 hours its very painful on my rear and the numbing grows even worse.
is that just a consequence of of spending long times in the saddle or can most of it be eliminated? ive been riding 4 days a week, 1 one hour ride, 2 2 hour rides, and 1 4 hour ride each week for the last 5 weeks. and the issue hasnt goten better, so i dont think its that i havent been broken in .
old saddle is a terry fly.
thanks again
thanks for the help guys, hopefully i'll get a chance to play with it tonite, just got a new brooks i need to put on. and i want to try and make some adjustments. i have pain in my sit bones within an hour of riding, after about 2 hours i start to get numbness in the extremities, after after 3 hours its very painful on my rear and the numbing grows even worse.
is that just a consequence of of spending long times in the saddle or can most of it be eliminated? ive been riding 4 days a week, 1 one hour ride, 2 2 hour rides, and 1 4 hour ride each week for the last 5 weeks. and the issue hasnt goten better, so i dont think its that i havent been broken in .
old saddle is a terry fly.
thanks again
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You should restrict your use of a new Brooks until it has bedded into your butt.
I used mine for about 1/2hr a day for the first week.
If your post has 2 bolts on the clamp, you can use them to adjust the angle.
If you only have one, at the rear, then undo it, take the saddle off. There is a lump of Al, sitting ontop of the post. Tap it upward very gently with a lump of wood, and it should pop off. It has a convex lower surface which has lots of ridges. This sits in the concave top of the seatpost, which is also ridged. You rotate the two to change the angle, and the ridges prevent the surfaces sliding apart.
You may want to count the number of ridges showing at the rear before altering the setting, so you know if you want to see more (nose down) or fewer (nose up).
You usually do this adjustment with the saddle on, and the bolt a bit lose
I used mine for about 1/2hr a day for the first week.
If your post has 2 bolts on the clamp, you can use them to adjust the angle.
If you only have one, at the rear, then undo it, take the saddle off. There is a lump of Al, sitting ontop of the post. Tap it upward very gently with a lump of wood, and it should pop off. It has a convex lower surface which has lots of ridges. This sits in the concave top of the seatpost, which is also ridged. You rotate the two to change the angle, and the ridges prevent the surfaces sliding apart.
You may want to count the number of ridges showing at the rear before altering the setting, so you know if you want to see more (nose down) or fewer (nose up).
You usually do this adjustment with the saddle on, and the bolt a bit lose
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I have a seatpost on my road bike like that that MichaelW described. It is easy to adjust with the seatpost on the bike. With the bike sitting on its wheels on the ground, look from a bit of a distance at the saddle. Does the nose look pointed up, down, or is it level? If it's pointed upwards, then that should be corrected first - it could be causing much of your pain and numbness. My saddle is actually tilted very slightly downward. Seatpost height is also very important. If your saddle is too high, it could be putting excessive pressure "Down there." If you want the ultimate in easy adjustability, get something with a clamp like a Thomson. I've got one on my mountain bike, and it doesn't get any better.
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thanks for the info everyone
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Originally Posted by The Fixer
A/C seatpost has a small allen screw which presets the tilt adjustment. It's there.....just look harder!
Do you have to (1) loosen it all the way and then tilt the seat or
(2)does it move up or down depending on which way you tighten/loosen it?
Also, there are numbers etched into the side of the saddle near where the saddle attaches to the seat post. I'm assuming that this lets you know what angle you are using. Not sure what numbers are present as I don't have my bike with me, but I think it is a scale with "0" in the middle and positive to one side of zero and negative numbers to the other side.