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Can this be fixed?
Had a little accident on the weekend noticed this when cleaning bike. Can this be fixed and how, or am I up for a new saddle?
Cheers Stu.
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If so your gonna need a new one.
Just can't figure out to get rail back in, as rail is solid and can't bend back in. Always had trouble with the square peg in the round hole thingy!!!
Yes it can be fixed but it is really hard. I had the same problem a few years ago with a seat.
I took two people all there strength to bend it back and let it spring back into the hole.
We had to use a very long screw driver as a lever to aid.
Under the nose of the saddle, you should then be able to get the rails out and reinsert them rear first.
I had this happened to a seat, a really nice one. I tried on and off for about 2 years to fix it. Broke my heart to chuck it in the bin.
Clamp the part where the seatpost clamps in a small bench-mounted vice, and use a long-handled stilson wrench (ie, the jaws clamp at a 90deg angle to the shaft) to bend it up into place. Just wrap the rail in somethign so that you don't chew it up with the tools.
FWIW, steel saddle rails seem relatively soft and ductile. After bending the rails on my much-loved Nisene in an OTB awhile back, I was able to straighten them with a judicious tweak from a shifting spanner inserted into the gap between rail and saddle base and lifting the end with surprisingly little force, which was nice. Naturally, that idea didn;t occur to me until after I'd ordered and paid for a new Gobi XM.
It may just be that Ti rails are similarly pliable?
Will give them a go, hope it works or I'm up for a new saddle.
Cheers,
Stu.