I have three uni’s and four seats. Sounds straight forward, except that one of the seats is an original KH with the spinning bolt problem…grrrrrr… That seat was on my MUni for a while but then I got the beatiful bedford/kh seat that you saw me post pix of earlier this week. So onto the lightweight 29’er goes the old MUni seat. But alas, the seat feels less comfortable than the newer ones… so why not just try get it off the post and put a new edition seat on the lovely, speedy ‘Gazelle’?
Well of course, a logical plan …
and first three bolts come off fine… BUT then, the last bolt, of course the LAST bolt…spins!
Nothing getting the nut off. I remove the seat cover, partially, the foam is dense, I can barely get some pliers between it and the seat base. The round head of the carriage bolt will not be clutched in any way by any style of plier. I AM STUCK!
The story is getting long…lets finish without too much pain…I use the post to lever the seat right out of its plastic seat base…only to find that the post is indeed not very strong and the base with slots for the bolts has gotten bent in the process…sigh…double sigh… It was, afterall the post I needed to use for the other seat.
So on to trying to get the post base back to the correct angle. Not easy for one with few tools and not workspace and a sad lack of practical problem solving.
Enough excitment for one day… I haven’t test ridden the new seat on the re-bent post yet. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
… now I have one damaged old edition KH and, possibly, one misshappen seat post …d’OH!
I just had to share this tale of woe with someone who might understand…thanks for ‘listening’.
(andyone want to trade an old KH with three bolts for a seat post… … )
i had the same problem i took the whole seat apart and converted it to an air seat. my foam was not so dense in fact it crumbled and powdered and rendered itsself usless but not before i also busted up a seatpost to get it off. after all that i pounded the plate back into submission.
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LOL, nice one hfh!