Deda RSX01 seatpost adjustment

Quizmate
Quizmate Posts: 97
edited March 2015 in Road general
Made a small adjustment to my saddle and thought I'd tightened up the bolts holding the rails on my new Deda RSX01 seatpost. However on returning from a ride I realised my saddle had slipped backwards 10 mil and the resulting tendon pain was not welcome. Is there a knack to adjusting this saddle and re tightening as I'm not familiar with it at all. There's a bolt at he rear sitting below which is adjusted from underneath and one at the front sitting on top and can be adjusted from above (or so it appears). The front one has a plastic adjustment dial on the thread too. Am I missing something here as I'm sure it must be a very simple procedure to angle and tighten. I imagine any saddle without a cut out would make it difficult to adjust the front bolt so I'm guessing it's not adjusted from above?

Again apologies for my mechanical ineptitude.

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  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    I'll be interested in how you do that too. I bought one of those things for my new Planet X build and gave up on it this afternoon putting an old post on instead. What a faff trying to adjust the damn thing.
  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    As best I can remember when I had a similar post, you need to slacken off the bolt, position the saddle where you want on the cradle, adjust the tilt with the knurled wheel, then clamp it tight with the bolt.
    I think you can loosen it up again if you play with the wheel after you've tightened the bolt.

    I could have remembered it completely wrong, though...
  • andrewjoseph
    andrewjoseph Posts: 2,165
    tighten the front bolt so that the nose tilts down more than you need, tightening the rear will pull it back into line. this will need multiple attempts unless you fluke it first time.
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  • crvfr
    crvfr Posts: 23
    I have the same seat post on two bikes. My method is to check the level with the rear bolt clamped & work out how much the front needs to come up/go down. Loosen the rear bolt to allow the front one to be altered & re-tighten. It's a bit trial & error but it only took me two goes to get each saddle sorted & they haven't moved since after thousands of miles.

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