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Technical => General Technical => Topic started by: crazytraveler on May 25, 2014, 06:09:12 PM

Title: Something wrong with my Brooks saddle
Post by: crazytraveler on May 25, 2014, 06:09:12 PM
I don't know how it happen, but my saddle is in a wrong position.

(http://i.imgur.com/tF2nkN8.jpg)

How do I get it back to it's place without making it worse?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Something wrong with my Brooks saddle
Post by: jags on May 25, 2014, 06:23:14 PM
ah man that looks sad, answer is you wont unless you send it back to brooks.

jags.
Title: Re: Something wrong with my Brooks saddle
Post by: crazytraveler on May 25, 2014, 06:31:17 PM
ah man that looks sad, answer is you wont unless you send it back to brooks.

jags.

Really? :S
Title: Re: Something wrong with my Brooks saddle
Post by: jags on May 25, 2014, 06:43:54 PM
whats happening underneath,are the rails bent pulled to one side,just guessing need to have it in my hands to see exactly whats wrong post that photo to brooks cant do any harm.
Title: Re: Something wrong with my Brooks saddle
Post by: leftpoole on May 25, 2014, 07:14:38 PM
I don't know how it happen, but my saddle is in a wrong position.

(http://i.imgur.com/tF2nkN8.jpg)

How do I get it back to it's place without making it worse?

Thanks!

Hello,
I had a saddle similarly afflicted.
I have a leg shorter than the other and had at the time the saddle just a tiny bit too high.
Maybe a similar problem?
Regards,
John
Title: Re: Something wrong with my Brooks saddle
Post by: crazytraveler on May 26, 2014, 03:49:48 PM
Hello,
I had a saddle similarly afflicted.
I have a leg shorter than the other and had at the time the saddle just a tiny bit too high.
Maybe a similar problem?
Regards,
John

That's news to me, but may be I do and I don't know. I don't think it is too high though. But I kinda jump over the saddle after running a bit next to the bike a lot of times when I start the ride since my huge panniers doesn't let me get over the saddle easy some times.
Title: Re: Something wrong with my Brooks saddle
Post by: onrbikes on May 26, 2014, 04:04:12 PM
You'll most likely find that when you turn the nut, the bolt is turning too.
Sometimes the bolt jams up in the hole of the bracket. If you turn the nut back a bit it may bring the saddle square.

If that doesn't work squirt some oil where the bolt and bracket meet up to make it looser.

What if you hold the bolt with some pliers and turn the nut.
Title: Re: Something wrong with my Brooks saddle
Post by: il padrone on June 02, 2014, 02:28:12 PM
Strange? If you have tightened the nut and the bolt is a little stuck it should twist the reverse direction. I have seen this once before for someone's Brooks but do not recall what the outcome was.