My seat came off!!! Grrr!!

[GraysonKelly]

Just curious...what kind of seatpost did you have? Mine was a Zeus carbon and hoping shop where I bought it will replace it as yours did. That shop is in Sacramento, about an hour awa. In the meantime lbs gave me a loaner .

It was the stock seat post: Satori Poise XC suspension. I didn't like it and was planning on replacing it anyway. I have no idea what kind they put on...I wasn't paying attention...I was too busy eyeing that orange tire they put on the back. haha
Gray

[Trigress]

Goodness gracious... I feel that this is an appropriate moment to share my Saddle Tilting Experience with someone:

This summer I particiapted in my first ever 70.3 ironman triathlon, and being a rather inexperienced cyclist, I was anticipating the bike leg only partly with enthusiasm. I had aero bars on my road bike, and the saddle titled somewhat forwards. The rounds were about 18k (12 miles?), and riding downhill towards the turning point and feeding area I suddenly heard a small "clank" and I sort of "fell" backwards. Fortunately I was holding the handlebar rather than the aerobars, otherwise I would've greeted the tarmac with a nice headbutt. It turned out that the whole saddle had come loose, tilting backwards. Technical assistance is not allowed and it turned out that my tool wasn't really long enough to unscrew it and sort it out properly, and I didn't want to spend time stopping by my car to get a new tool. I managed to fasten it enough for it to be stable, but I ended up riding the last 72k with a saddle tilted backwards. I had to spend the rest of the day with a saddle digging into my soft bits, and eventually it hurt so badly that I had to really pull myself down and forwards in order to still lie down in the aerobars. I don't normally look forward to the running leg of a triathlon, but this time I couldn't wait to liberate my soft bits and stretch my back!

[Mr. Bloom]

Trigress, I don't know what you ride, but what you describe is a common problem for the seat designs on the new Trek Madones. In the first week on our Madones, both a friend and I had this same problem.

[Trigress]

I ride a Ciöcc Morpho II, and it would be far from fair to blame the bike. Responsible for my incident is no-one but myself, having done a bad mounting job!

[sundial]

It turned out that the whole saddle had come loose, tilting backwards.

Whaaaaa??

China again??