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When fitting single seat to frame bracket does nut on front of seat rest on bracket with thread through hole or is nut tightened undeneath to clamp seat in place if so how do you tighten nut up

I have just done a Search and found the stuff below. For more on this, try SINGLE SEAT in the Search box....above right, on the screen, and you should be able to find where I got this. There are pictures, too!

Hope that's helpful, Good luck, Chris



The nose end of the saddle has a mounting on the underside comprising of a metal tube on a fixed axle and a bolt welded centrally. The nut which holds this in the fixing bracket will fit into the bracket but one cannot get a spanner to it to tighten it. The bracket works like a housing which absolutely encloses the nut and when fitted, there is no access to the nut, so I tightened as much as I could with my finger tip and that will have to do.
The springs mount on the saddle retaining studs which are too short to go through the electrics cover, the spring and the fixing washers. Next job then, is to loosen the studs and screw them as far out as one dares and then mount the spring. The spring is cunningly designed so as to not allow a grown mans finger to get in between the coils and maneouvre said washers and nuts. Frustratingly so. This is valid for both ends of the springs, which leads to some fairly colourful language when you get to fit the fixing plates underneath the saddle. Gravity is always against you in these situations.

I finally got it all in place but not without tea, cigarettes and a good deal of cursing. I'm pleased with the result but I believe there must be an easier way to fit these things. Maybe I should get my inventor hat out and see what I can do.

The long thin 1/4 drive socket wrench extension is useful for getting the nuts on the springs, possibly a tubular spanner, and long nose pliers or surgical forceps. I find it easiest to fit the springs to the seat upended before fitting the nose to bike. Although I have now removed the springs and mounted the seat on low brackets.

On the latest models the inaccessible bolt can be got at with a socket nut driver. It should be done up because the bracket attached to the seat has a rather large rubber bush which actually supports the seat. On ethese the seat attaches to a frame bracket centrally under the seat rather than at the nose. On this seat the springs are mostly cosmetic, most of the work is done by the rubber bush. Earlier models fit the solo seat differently to a frame bracket further forwards (that bracket is still there on the current model).

Chris has found my blog... Well done that man!


Here's how I got on doing the job.


Follow the link above. Read it right to the end. I had to make a few corrections to fitting the thing...!!