I have read so many posts, done so much looking around, I must be the biggest idiot on this board, and I have a doctorate for God‘s sake. But I ordered a Cloud 9, discovered within five minutes you couldn’t stick the pole on the Aventure 3 into the seat, immediately began to improvise by using the the seat pole that came with the bike and the parts from under the wide seat on my old bike, and then the parts from the new seat that came with the A3, which just led to a frustrating nightmare. I’m literally ready to throw in the trash the seat that came with thenbike, the Cloud 9 and all its parts, and my old bike seat and all of its parts, and just start the hell over. What am I missing? Why have none of the threads that I’ve read about Cloud 9 mentioned it doesn’t fit the A3 saddle pipe size?
I realize the logical that I’m some kind of an idiot, but I’ve already figured that out so I don’t need help there.