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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
Bike seat on a 36er for road riding?? Those of you with significant, larger handlebars or even aero bars that effectively hold you into the saddle and reduce the need for the forward part of the hour-glass shape of a standard unicycle seat, someone here (I think that Sasquach-Saskatchawanin?) suggested trying out a bike seat. I think this idea will only work well with a significantly forward leaning riding position. Any one tried this yet? I'm looking at adapting a standard bicycle touring seat to the modified rail adaptor that is the backbone of the aero bar set that I'm using now. B -- brycer1968 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brycer1968's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11311 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
Oh and the three objectives behind such a move: 1. Increasing comfort 2. Decreasing weight 3. Increasing the efficiency of "the spin", not having the front part of the seat to rub against your legs. B -- brycer1968 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brycer1968's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11311 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
No experience myself but I am so on board with trying it out. Saddle soreness did not begin to describe what I felt on Saturday's long ride. Contrary to all expectations, 109 miles on a conventional unicycle seat did not make my wiener feel good. -- boisei ------------------------------------------------------------------------ boisei's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16116 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
boisei;1137257 wrote: 109 miles on a conventional unicycle seat did not make my wiener feel good. lol true... but i guess a bike seat would be better for the inner thigh soreness but ethier buy lube or try puting little more weight on the handlebars less off balls -- gangstertaco You can't learn if you can't understand. You can't understand if you can't learn. Therefore you can learn if you can understand and you can understand if you can learn.... Phil_on_uni wrote: hey inflatable people are people too ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gangstertaco's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/17536 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
I'd love to try a bike seat, but I'm just too lazy and/or overstretched to bother trying to set up a good handlebar far out from the seat.... I know I'd want to keep the T7 though, to have both. I think. Imagine having a magura brake hose "splitter" so that two separate handles (on different bars on your uni) could be used to compress the pads into the rim. That'd be awesome... -- chuckaeronut Uni to work to eat to live to uni to work to...! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chuckaeronut's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14677 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
chuckaeronut;1137465 wrote: I'd love to try a bike seat, but I'm just too lazy and/or overstretched to bother trying to set up a good handlebar far out from the seat.... I know I'd want to keep the T7 though, to have both. I think. Imagine having a magura brake hose "splitter" so that two separate handles (on different bars on your uni) could be used to compress the pads into the rim. That'd be awesome... I am sure you could get some sort of Y fitting for the hose to go to two levers. Or failing that could you have hoses coming from both slave cylinders? I am down to only my MUni at the moment and it has a bent seatpost. I might get a bike post and seat and throw my handle on there and see what it is like but it would be on a 26x3 with 160s not exactly the ideal road machine. There is also lots of snow here right now so it is not really idea for testing new setups but I will let you all know how I do if I get around to doing this. -- saskatchewanian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saskatchewanian's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14180 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
i personal have a large handlebar setup and i'am doing a convursion to make it fit a bicycle seat. just have to order some more items next week (waiting for the money to get in) will post some pictures if its done. i choose a seat that has a cut away part in the middle hoping thats it will be more comfy on the longer rides. -- eenwieler-sander ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eenwieler-sander's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10956 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
A downhill specific seat like the 'Azonic Love Seat' (http://tinyurl.com/6a8udo) might be worth a try. The downhill style saddles are longer and bigger than regular MTB saddles. A potential downside to the Azonic Love Seat is that it doesn't have much padding and is rather firm. There are other similar saddles by other manufacturers. I don't think a narrow road style saddle would work well. The narrow racing road saddles only work on a bike when you're always pushing a big gear and always on the drops. That's the opposite of how you ride and sit on a unicycle. A more MTB specific saddle like a WTB Laser would be a compromise but I still think it would be a little short and narrow up front. The WTB Laser is a nice MTB saddle that works well for a more upright MTB posture and spinning lower gears that is typical of MTB riding and casual cruising. -- john_childs john_childs (att) hotmail (dott) com Team Never Wash Your Muni 'My Gallery' (http://tinyurl.com/3d57bn) :: 'Unicycling Bookmark List' (http://backcountry.unicyclist.com/) :: 'World Clock' (http://tinyurl.com/2blym3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ john_childs's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/449 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
I went out and got a seat and post and tried it out. I am using my handlebar with a Kalloy seatpost (unfortunately 24.0 so I needed to shim) and a KHS saddle from the cheap bin. This is on my 26" MUni because that is the only unicycle I have at the moment. It took me a while to get the seat angle and height right but I eventually found a setting that was fairly comfortable. I had to turn the seatpost backwards to let the seat sit flat when I rode. First thing I noticed was how free it felt on the front part of my crotch. the seat felt like... I was riding a bike. All my weight was on my 'sit bones' and the handle. The next thing I noticed was an absence of rubbing. I never really thought of it before but my legs rub allot on a unicycle seat. Since there was less between my legs I found that I was riding with my knees closer together and seemed to spin (160mm cranks, HA!) fairly smooth. So far it was awesome. I could see myself going indefinitely without discomfort with a better seat. I can only ride for about an hour strait before I start getting discomfort with a unicycle seat. Then I straitened out taking the weight off the handlebars. It went from weight on my hand and sit bones to weight on my legs and a single point in my crotch. Not comfortable at all. I think my handlebars are a bit shorter than ideal for this setup but I really liked what I had experienced so far as far as a road setup is concerned. I think that my next road unicycle will have a long handle and bike seat setup. A bit random but I think that something like the WTB Laser (which I have on my bike) would be the ideal seat for this. A bit softer than a pure road/race seat and actually designed to be sat on for extended periods of time unlike a downhill seat. and here is an old picture with my handle for those not familiar with it. I don't have a camera to take pics of the current test setup. [image: http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/m...f982b4b17877a] -- saskatchewanian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saskatchewanian's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14180 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
saskatchewanian;1137957 wrote: I went out and got a seat and post and tried it out. I am using my handlebar with a Kalloy seatpost (unfortunately 24.0 so I needed to shim) and a KHS saddle from the cheap bin. This is on my 26" MUni because that is the only unicycle I have at the moment. It took me a while to get the seat angle and height right but I eventually found a setting that was fairly comfortable. I had to turn the seatpost backwards to let the seat sit flat when I rode. First thing I noticed was how free it felt on the front part of my crotch. the seat felt like... I was riding a bike. All my weight was on my 'sit bones' and the handle. The next thing I noticed was an absence of rubbing. I never really thought of it before but my legs rub allot on a unicycle seat. Since there was less between my legs I found that I was riding with my knees closer together and seemed to spin (160mm cranks, HA!) fairly smooth. So far it was awesome. I could see myself going indefinitely without discomfort with a better seat. I can only ride for about an hour strait before I start getting discomfort with a unicycle seat. Then I straitened out taking the weight off the handlebars. It went from weight on my hand and sit bones to weight on my legs and a single point in my crotch. Not comfortable at all. I think my handlebars are a bit shorter than ideal for this setup but I really liked what I had experienced so far as far as a road setup is concerned. I think that my next road unicycle will have a long handle and bike seat setup. A bit random but I think that something like the WTB Laser (which I have on my bike) would be the ideal seat for this. A bit softer than a pure road/race seat and actually designed to be sat on for extended periods of time unlike a downhill seat. Interesting report Saskat. This really got me thinking. So I went to the local used bike co-op yesterday and bought a handfull of old seat rail clamp parts to try this out - with a couple of bored holes in the top plate of the adaptor, I think I can mount the bike seat on top of the exisitng rail adaptor. This will add about a half inch to my seat height, but give me the flexibility to try out a couple of different styles of bike seats. The downhill seat John Childs linked to might be an interesting one to try out. More later. B -- brycer1968 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brycer1968's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11311 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74455 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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