Do you guys have the seat back bottle cages installed?
I remember that Scott epoxied his seat back tubes, but that didn't stop the
squeaking. I had my VREX seat apart to rerivet and epoxy the the seat back
tubes. One of the rivets had failed and the seat frame creaked. After the
repair and a new fabric, the noise went away. No fabric squeak.
The center line of my old seat fabric never looked 'on center', yet it was
too tight to pull to adjust it, even though the fabric was a long way from
taut. I figured that deformation was caused by some non symmetric pedalling
motion or posture. The bottle cages anchored the cover so any seat back
rotation was limited by bottle cage screws and the fabric couldn't act as a
bow pulling across a violin string, making the frame resonate in the form of
squeakage. Have either of you restrung your seat a bit on the loose side to
damp the bow and string affect?
"@" <@@@.com> wrote in message news:gqUDc.129304$Sw.39447@attbi_s51...
> "Bob Slebodnik" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Does anyone have a remedy for the squeeking noise that the Rans seat
> > fabric can make while one is pedaling? I have the adjustment straps
> > tightened as much as I can get them tightened. I have a 2003 Rans
> > Velocity Squared. Thank-you in advance for your assistance.
>
> So THAT'S what is making that darned squeaking noise! That little squeak
> has been bugging me for many months- never could track down the source.
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Just a thought: If you can't cinch it down, why not drip some White
> Lightning on the suspected squeaking areas? It is thin enough that it
> should soak right through the mesh and lube the nylon/metal interface
> sufficient to cure the squeak. Removing the seat cover and rubbing
parrafin
> or bee's wax on the contact areas would be another possibility.
>
> @
>
>