Have to push the front part back because red area clamps on the bottom holder and not the rails if not. This then leaves me with barely room for a small Allen’s. Aight no way a torque wrench fitting.
by thesaneones
Have to push the front part back because red area clamps on the bottom holder and not the rails if not. This then leaves me with barely room for a small Allen’s. Aight no way a torque wrench fitting.
by thesaneones
9 Comments
It doesn’t need to be torqued exactly . But you would just have to torque one on them since the bolts share the tension
That’s a really ugly design. It simply looks like it isn’t set up correctly at all. I’d definitely double check it.
You finger tighten the bolt on the left to get the saddle set at the correct angle. Then you torque the bolt to the right. They are pulling against each other so there’s no need to torque both of them as the force applied will even out between the two across the saddle rails.
Use a torque wrench on the bolt that you can access. Maybe tighten it like 1 Nm short of the correct torque.
Then use a regular wrench to add a little bit of torque, and by feel tighten the other bolt to the same torque. It will get you close enough.
That’s an awful design in so many ways. Really small contact area for the saddle rails. It looks like a copy of the Tune weight weenie seatpost: [https://www.bike-components.de/en/tune/Leichtes-Stueck-Seatpost-340-mm-p59543/](https://www.bike-components.de/en/tune/Leichtes-Stueck-Seatpost-340-mm-p59543/)
Think of the bolt in the white circle as getting the tilt of the seat right, do it up by hand. The other one is for torquing, and yes don’t worry as the first one gets torqued up fine as a result. But but but, please keep the bolts parallel, yours looks splayed. I have this system, it’s light and works fine.
Terrible design as the front bolt does all the work because most of your weight is on back of the saddle, snapped the front bolt 30 miles from home on my bike last year.
I remember these seat posts. Total pain in the arse to set up. Had to adjust the front bolt first so that the seat would be set up correctly and then do all the heavy twisting on the rear bolt to make it stay in place. Usually meant that I’d be required to overly adjust the front to seem lower than it should be because when I reefed down on the rear bolt it made things flex the nose up. Just hated it.
That thing is designed to be as light as possible, I read that as err on the side of caution and don’t over torque. Make sure you pack an allen key and a spare bolt until you’re confident it’s not going to come apart.
It’s not necessary. Loosen the back one a bunch, adjust angle with the front. Secure by tightening the back one.
The two bolt post on my Giant doesn’t even have a way to put a wrench on it, just a thumb wheel adjuster.
That sure doesn’t look right…it may just be the picture, but those two bolts look like they are different and should be swapped