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Has anyone actually managed this?
I'm fitting the top half of the 2-piece nurled, internal clamp over the seat rails and through the top of the post, prising open the 'jaws' of the seatpost and vainly attempting to push through the bottom half of the internal clamp. I do not seem to be able to spread jaws of the post wide enough to get the second (lower) clamp piece in.
MTFU? Any ideas?
("getting an alternative seatpost" does not count as a suggestion!)
Nightmare isn't it 🙁
Persevere with opening up the 'jaws' with a large screwdriver. Putting the post in the frame gives more to lever against, ime.
Cheers wwwas. As if by magic, I've just done it.
Something like this:
1. Put [u]both[/u] halves of the knurled clamp in the post, holding them apart
2. Slide one seat rail in diagonally in between the clamp halves (if that makes sense?)
3. Then prise the jaws open using a suitable piece of cutlery whilst rotating the saddle so the other rail clicks into place.
Ironically, once fitted, the whole thing seems really loose until you tighten the bolts!
Hello,
I just wanted to add some detail to this post after struggling with it for the best part of 2 hours.
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/_mumu_/8226757040/in/photostream ]Click here for photo[/url]
The best way is to get to this position. I shifted the top part of the clamp halves to one side to get it up between the rails. Then use something to lever the clamp wider (I used the end of a small wrench) and slide the top half across.
Bearing in mind I had spent a couple of hours prising the clamp apart so it might have become a little looser.
Hope that helps and saves somebody the two hours that I lost!! Looks good once it's in though!
Max
I just prise mine open at the clamp area (bolts removed) with a fat tyre lever, jam something in place to keep it open and it all goes together ok, a bit fiddly but a 5 min job. There's a lot of flex in the clamp.
Have had two of these, the advice above is good but be very careful about how far open you prise the clamp, both if mine have died through stress fractures in that area and I suspect my hamfistedness at opening the clamp.
I take the bolts out completely, insert a pedal spanner in the gap and then screw the bolts in from the other side (need to tilt the saddle forwards to do this). This generally forces the clamp open just enough to slide out the two halves.
Took me a while to figure this out, but the seatpost is about 5 years old, has had quite a few saddle swaps but I haven't had problems. I might have a look for any stress fractures next time I swap saddles though....
Hope that makes sense. If it doesn't, let me know and I'll post some pictures for you....
Wow, thread ressurection!
I emailed VN about this and they kindly sent me some instructions with pictures and everything. Hopefully I saved them somewhere in my on-line email account as the laptop they were downloaded to was stolen recently.