Skip Montanaro
Look Ma, No Hands!
My lovely wife came across a nice looking Schwinn mattress saddle and seatpost the other day, grabbed it, and said, "put it on that Schwinn Breeze with the metal saddle." So, I brought the Breeze into the lair, removed the saddle, but ... sigh ... it's got a very skinny seatpost. I measured the seatpost itself at about 20mm. The narrower section for the clamp is only about 16mm. That area on the donor seatpost is 22mm. Here's what I'm dealing with. I don't think it would be safe to try and just squeeze the rails on the new saddle to hold the small clamp. I thought perhaps I could shim the smaller clamp, but that's going to be challenging with the serrations. Again, I think safety might well be compromised. I have flipped Schwinn seatposts over before, but this guy is too narrow for that solution.
Is there something like a "standard" solution to this problem (maybe a small diameter clamp with larger total width), or will I be left to try and cobble something together?
Is there something like a "standard" solution to this problem (maybe a small diameter clamp with larger total width), or will I be left to try and cobble something together?
