Giant Trance X4 2012 Seat Clamp Issue
worb68
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Hello,
Has anyone had any issues with a Giant Trance X4 2012 seat clamp. I ride the bike and the seat angle goes up, I do it up again and straight away, soemtimes not even leaving the car park and the seat angle has changed and the angle is making it quite uncomfortable to ride at times. The back of the seat drops back pushing the front up.
Weve torqued the bolt as well and still no use. It moves and then we cant push back, we have to undo the bolt first before moving back.
Anyone else had this and managed to fix this?
Has anyone had any issues with a Giant Trance X4 2012 seat clamp. I ride the bike and the seat angle goes up, I do it up again and straight away, soemtimes not even leaving the car park and the seat angle has changed and the angle is making it quite uncomfortable to ride at times. The back of the seat drops back pushing the front up.
Weve torqued the bolt as well and still no use. It moves and then we cant push back, we have to undo the bolt first before moving back.
Anyone else had this and managed to fix this?
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what is the post? single or twin bolt?"Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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Single allen key bolt under the seat at the back.0
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Standard giant seatpost?
On my trance there were slots in the clamp so when you tightenned it up they aligned to prevent seat angle slipping.
You might just need to nip the clamp bolts up a bit more.
When your riding, if your going over gnarly ground, do you stay seated or stand up on your pedals?0 -
Strip, clean, degrease, dry, and refit. (but grease the bolt)0
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and make sure you bed the serations together before full tightening.supersonic wrote:Strip, clean, degrease, dry, and refit. (but grease the bolt)"Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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im going to strip it tonight and clean etc.
It is the standard Giant seat post.
Gnarly ground - depends, a mixture of both - standing and seated. However at the moment when I do it up in the car park I dont even get out of the car park before it adjusts again.0 -
Definitely something wrong there then as there are slots to prevent that happening. I bent a giant connect seatpost without the seat angle changing when it kicked me up the ass after a dodgy landing.
Ditch it and get a branded post. I have had 2 giant posts that slipped down the frame from being too narrow. Now use a truvativ stylo t30and have tried a dropper, zero slippage or problems with either .0 -
Check the bolt isn't hitting the underside of the saddle preventing it being tightened correctly.....Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.0
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Stripped It and cleaned it all. See how it rides tomorrow I guess.0
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The serrations are a bit cheese like, mine pointed skywards after I whacked it with my arse on a landing.0
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Well that was fun. Rode out of the car park at Swinley last night and it moved a bit, not as much as usual though. On ride back coming downhill seat bolt snapped and the seat felt off at speed.0
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At least you've found the problem!0
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Lets hope so!!0
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I've got a Trance x5 (2009?).
Also had a Giant A3 seatpost with same clamping issue. Tried tightening it up loads, strip/clean/reassemble, Loctite nothing worked so binned it in the end.
The seatpost clamp (Giant own brand) wouldn't hold the seatpost no matter how tight it was done up. Eventually I broke the lever trying to do it up a bit tighter.
New seatpost and seatpost clamp and problem sorted.0 -
Thistle that's good to know - thanks.0
