Someone at Trek is a freaking idiot!
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Someone at Trek is a freaking idiot!
Anyone dealt with the idiot seat clamping design on the 2011 Trek Seat caps? What an idiotic piece of crap! There's no way you are making any adjustments on the road with this setup and it's near impossible to get set up even at home. I'd love to meet the "engineer" that designed it and the idiot that allowed it to go into marketing. They obviously don't actually ride their products.
Anyway, trying to make what would be a "two second" angle adjustment on any other seat post and am getting quite frustrated with this piece of biking crap and needed to vent. Been debating whether to keep this bike or sell it and this may be the final straw. If I can't adjust my saddle on the fly for optimum position the bike is useless to me. What a stupid, stupid decision on someone's part.
Anyway, trying to make what would be a "two second" angle adjustment on any other seat post and am getting quite frustrated with this piece of biking crap and needed to vent. Been debating whether to keep this bike or sell it and this may be the final straw. If I can't adjust my saddle on the fly for optimum position the bike is useless to me. What a stupid, stupid decision on someone's part.
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I'm the guy the designed that seatpost. What's it to ya?!
Got any pics of the piece in question, or possibly a clearer description? I've known some folks in my group to have a hell of a time with their seat posts (these were on Fuji SST 1.0's) and there turned out to be a simple piece they were overlooking. After discovering it, they loved the design. They'd even realized most shops weren't aware of it since a lot of the shops in the area weren't selling that particular model very frequently.
Got any pics of the piece in question, or possibly a clearer description? I've known some folks in my group to have a hell of a time with their seat posts (these were on Fuji SST 1.0's) and there turned out to be a simple piece they were overlooking. After discovering it, they loved the design. They'd even realized most shops weren't aware of it since a lot of the shops in the area weren't selling that particular model very frequently.
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Anyone dealt with the idiot seat clamping design on the 2011 Trek Seat caps? What an idiotic piece of crap! There's no way you are making any adjustments on the road with this setup and it's near impossible to get set up even at home. I'd love to meet the "engineer" that designed it and the idiot that allowed it to go into marketing. They obviously don't actually ride their products.
Anyway, trying to make what would be a "two second" angle adjustment on any other seat post and am getting quite frustrated with this piece of biking crap and needed to vent. Been debating whether to keep this bike or sell it and this may be the final straw. If I can't adjust my saddle on the fly for optimum position the bike is useless to me. What a stupid, stupid decision on someone's part.
Anyway, trying to make what would be a "two second" angle adjustment on any other seat post and am getting quite frustrated with this piece of biking crap and needed to vent. Been debating whether to keep this bike or sell it and this may be the final straw. If I can't adjust my saddle on the fly for optimum position the bike is useless to me. What a stupid, stupid decision on someone's part.
I don't either, but I can appreciate the hassle of trying to dial in a good fit with such a problem. I usually first notice things that need adjusting when I'm actually riding, not when sitting at home with a work stand and a bunch of tools, so it would be nice to be able to make that adjustment with just an allen wrench or two on the roadside.
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You know you can change to a better seat post without having to buy a whole new bike, right...?
I don't either, but I can appreciate the hassle of trying to dial in a good fit with such a problem. I usually first notice things that need adjusting when I'm actually riding, not when sitting at home with a work stand and a bunch of tools, so it would be nice to be able to make that adjustment with just an allen wrench or two on the roadside.
I don't either, but I can appreciate the hassle of trying to dial in a good fit with such a problem. I usually first notice things that need adjusting when I'm actually riding, not when sitting at home with a work stand and a bunch of tools, so it would be nice to be able to make that adjustment with just an allen wrench or two on the roadside.
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I had this motorcycle a while back. The turn signal was a little button you would push one way or the other. You would push it to the right and make you right hand turn and push it back to the middle to shut off the turn signal. It was sort of a pain because sometimes you would overshoot the middle and turn on the left turn signal. One day, after about a year of owning the bike and thousands of lefts and rights, my friend informed me all I had to do was push the button in to turn off the signal.
Not saying the Trek seat clamp isn't a POS, it likely is. Just wanted to share a "DUHH!" moment in my life.
Not saying the Trek seat clamp isn't a POS, it likely is. Just wanted to share a "DUHH!" moment in my life.
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I had this motorcycle a while back. The turn signal was a little button you would push one way or the other. You would push it to the right and make you right hand turn and push it back to the middle to shut off the turn signal. It was sort of a pain because sometimes you would overshoot the middle and turn on the left turn signal. One day, after about a year of owning the bike and thousands of lefts and rights, my friend informed me all I had to do was push the button in to turn off the signal.
Not saying the Trek seat clamp isn't a POS, it likely is. Just wanted to share a "DUHH!" moment in my life.
Not saying the Trek seat clamp isn't a POS, it likely is. Just wanted to share a "DUHH!" moment in my life.
Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong by someone and shown how stupid I am but alas I don't think that's the case this time. Anyway I'm heading out for a ride so maybe that will relax me a bit. Of course if the angle isn't right I'm going to be getting quite pissed a few miles into the ride.
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This is the system the OP is talking about.
1 Bolt that pushes 2 Conical wedges in the carbon seatpost to lock the seat in to place.
I have used the system on my own bike and I adjust those weekly for customers and I never seem to have any problems with it.
Could be just me though.
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My specialized came with a seatpost like that, and all I did was loosen the bolt, and then bang on the nose of the saddle with my palm a bit to tilt up or down, then retighten. If I just tried to move it smoothly, it was impossible. Gotta hammer on it a bit.
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This is the system the OP is talking about.
1 Bolt that pushes 2 Conical wedges in the carbon seatpost to lock the seat in to place.
I have used the system on my own bike and I adjust those weekly for customers and I never seem to have any problems with it.
Could be just me though.
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+1. I have the same bike and clamp and it's a PITA to adjust. What I do is put one rail and inside clamp piece in the right spot, adjust where I think the angle should be (it's all up to the clamp), then place the other inside piece on the other rail and starting from the top push down so the other inside piece sort of flips down into place. Then just tighten. I then put a mark on the clamp and the post so I can replicate it next time. Took many hours to figure that out but it's the easiest way to get it right. GL
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This is the system the OP is talking about.
1 Bolt that pushes 2 Conical wedges in the carbon seatpost to lock the seat in to place.
I have used the system on my own bike and I adjust those weekly for customers and I never seem to have any problems with it.
Could be just me though.
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I have 2 specialized bikes that use that same design. Not the easiest to adjust and requires a hard hit to the front or back of the seat or take it apart. For the longest time I though my seat was twisted, but it was actually the seatpost, both sides of the seatpost clamps were not lining up with each other requiring me to disassemble the seatpost to realign them. Not the best design and not hard to adjust, and once you get it where you want it, then its pretty rock steady.
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+1. Though I'm not sure who the idiot is.
I can't stand it when people diss an entire company based on anecdotal experience and on a very specific issue that's debatable, but chooses to do so publicly online. It's not reasonable to expect any company, big or small, to get it right each and every time.
I can't stand it when people diss an entire company based on anecdotal experience and on a very specific issue that's debatable, but chooses to do so publicly online. It's not reasonable to expect any company, big or small, to get it right each and every time.
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seat masts seem a bit silly to me. it prevents having a choice of seat post.
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Well mine does not move even when you "hammer it a bit", It doesn't move when you hammer it a lot for that matter, that is the issue. I'm just not impressed at all with this setup. Being stuck with a seat mast/cap design is bad enough but add in this factor and it's quite annoying.
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+1. Though I'm not sure who the idiot is.
I can't stand it when people diss an entire company based on anecdotal experience and on a very specific issue that's debatable, but chooses to do so publicly online. It's not reasonable to expect any company, big or small, to get it right each and every time.
I can't stand it when people diss an entire company based on anecdotal experience and on a very specific issue that's debatable, but chooses to do so publicly online. It's not reasonable to expect any company, big or small, to get it right each and every time.
But explain to me why you've never complained when I've praised things by Trek but do now when I complain about what I feel is a poorly designed piece?? At least I call them as I see them, plain and simple. Of course a little too much coffee helped with the tone of my post this morning...
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