Hot Tip of the Month - January 2010: “Avoiding Bent Seat Rails”

If you look under the seat or saddle, you will notice the actual seat is held up by two steel parallel rails. These rails are connected to the saddle with what we call seat guts. The seat guts usually have two 14mm nuts that are tightened after the saddle has been installed on the post portion of the seat slider. When the seat guts are installed too far forward or too far back, this can cause the rails to be bent or distorted if an inordinate amount of weight is placed directly on the front or rear of the saddle. When the seat guts are placed in the middle of the rails, this evenly distributes weight and prolongs the life of the saddle!

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