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36er, handlebars and bike seat??
update: orderd 2 seatpost to make it fit today on my work i work at a lbs so hope to finish it this week -- 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??
john_childs;1137784 wrote: A downhill specific seat like the 'Azonic Love Seat' (http://tinyurl.com/6a8udo) might be worth a try. John: I was hopeful about this idea so I got a hold of an Azonic Love seat and tried it out yesterday - OMG, what a truly horrible unicycle saddle. Way too hard for distance comfort, but the most troubling bit was the width in the center was too much, making it really uncomfortable to pedal - unless your pelvis is bovine-wide. The brief ride I took made me feel as though someone had slipped concrete into my bike shorts. I returned the seat and will keep searching. See picture B +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: uni saddle.JPG | |Download: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/29916 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- 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??
haha, wow that seat is massive. The seat that I used was a pretty normal looking one. I can't imagine anyone riding that thing on a bike where they are sitting on it for long periods of time. Also were you using the single handle that is under your seat in the picture? My handle is quite long and I felt that I would benefit from a longer one giving me an almost bike like position. -- 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;1143965 wrote: haha, wow that seat is massive. The seat that I used was a pretty normal looking one. I can't imagine anyone riding that thing on a bike where they are sitting on it for long periods of time. Also were you using the single handle that is under your seat in the picture? My handle is quite long and I felt that I would benefit from a longer one giving me an almost bike like position. Yes, not my brightest idea, but worth trying out. Yes the handle seen in the pic is one of the off-road "black cock" unihandles I've made for a while now. I'm with you on the desired bike riding position bit for long distance rides. See pic of the general riding positon I'm using on my KH36 now. For the saddle test, I just tried it out by its self on a rail type seat post on my 29er - with no handlebar, just around the block and it so completely and fully failed the comfort test in this state that I didn't even go on to trying to fit it on a proper handlebar set-up. B +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: 424331584_9LJsg-M[1].jpg | |Download: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/29928 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- 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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I remember the Azonic Love Seat being more narrow than that. I tried it briefly on a Creative Geckos muni 5 years or so ago. It worked better on a muni with the lower saddle height. I can't see that Love Seat working on a Coker. There is a lot of experimentation in bike seats. Lots of different shapes and sizes. Even finding a suitable saddle for my fixie bike required several tries. I wonder how the 'Azonic Journey' (http://tinyurl.com/5kye5a) might work for a Coker? -- 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??
After reading this thread, I thought it was a good idea to really find out about how bike seats are designed and how they work exactly. I read Sheldon Browns Saddle article and it really cleared up a bunch of things. For one, you should probably never be using a bike seat without Handle bars. Two, choosing the right saddle is ridiculously crucial, look less at the buzz words and more at width, and the groove in the middle. Three, it is all about your sit bones, get your weight onto them and everything is good, have your weight on anything else, and you may as well just ride on a brick, in fact if you cut the right groove in a brick, it will probably be more comfy than a bike seat with the wrong groove for your junk. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/saddles.html Forgot the article. -- ntappin 'how to build a strong comfy saddle from junk.' (http://tinyurl.com/hxcb3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ntappin's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10800 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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i'm wondering if a saddle more geared toward comfort bikes would be more along the lines of the needs of a unicyclist. these seats are still more streamlined than a uni seat, however they are designed for bikes with a much more upright seating position. generally they are designed to have most of the rider's weight placed on them at all times (and take it off of the rider's weak legs and wrists in the case if the intended demographic, lol) i have a hunch a saddle similar to one of the inexpensive ones made by bell would be closer to our needs. (i find these type of saddles way to soft and squishy for me on a bike, however much less of my weight is on the seat. on a uni it just might be close to what we are looking for.) an example: http://tinyurl.com/5uvoo5 -- OneWheelLess Seriously, the other wheel just fell off one day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OneWheelLess's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16793 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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OneWheelLess;1144765 wrote: i'm wondering if a saddle more geared toward comfort bikes would be more along the lines of the needs of a unicyclist. these seats are still more streamlined than a uni seat, however they are designed for bikes with a much more upright seating position. generally they are designed to have most of the rider's weight placed on them at all times (and take it off of the rider's weak legs and wrists in the case if the intended demographic, lol) i have a hunch a saddle similar to one of the inexpensive ones made by bell would be closer to our needs. (i find these type of saddles way to soft and squishy for me on a bike, however much less of my weight is on the seat. on a uni it just might be close to what we are looking for.) an example: http://tinyurl.com/5uvoo5 Yes, the comfort seat is where I might go next, though I hope my ass never loks like the type of ass that the comfort seats are designed to cradle/envelop/jiggle/wiggle and wallow around . . . can you say junk in the trunk? or how's that Queen song go about Fat Bottom Girls? .. . . . they make the rockin' world go round, I hear . . . YouTube - queen photos-fat bottomed girls Anyway, on a related topic, another local rider, Z. Boisei, wants to try cutting up the foam on a KH free-ride saddle to make it more bike saddle like. His three-part plan, which sounds interesting: -Carving/excavating an area for his family jewels -Removing foam from the front sides to narrow down the front of the saddle with out cutting into the actual seat base. -Its looking like he might also opt to dispose of the front lift handle as it is also pretty wide, designed around the seat contour that he is now changing and it appears to be in evolutionary terms an un-needed . . "vestigial organ" when you use bigger hendlebars for distance riding. Thoughts, pics or anyone actually tried any of these seat mods for distance riding? 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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I'm thinking that you might actually be able to use a TT bike seat and a set of aero bars on a 36. It would take a bit of work to get the geometry right for the aero bar position but I think there may be some potential there. Check out Doper Landis he used a bit of an odd TT position with high hand position. I think if the rider is even more upright with similar arm position it might work. [image: http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/photos...-floyd450.jpg] Now TT saddles are not know for being the most comfortable thing in the world is the true drawback of this argument. -- Checkernuts No one said it was gonna be easy and I'm not afraid to try, with the odds stacked up against me I will have to fight, One Life One Wheel got to do it right. H2O * -------muni militia ------- one wheeled death squad* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Checkernuts's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/801 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??
OneWheelLess;1144765 wrote: i'm wondering if a saddle more geared toward comfort bikes would be more along the lines of the needs of a unicyclist. these seats are still more streamlined than a uni seat, however they are designed for bikes with a much more upright seating position. generally they are designed to have most of the rider's weight placed on them at all times (and take it off of the rider's weak legs and wrists in the case if the intended demographic, lol) i have a hunch a saddle similar to one of the inexpensive ones made by bell would be closer to our needs. (i find these type of saddles way to soft and squishy for me on a bike, however much less of my weight is on the seat. on a uni it just might be close to what we are looking for.) an example: http://tinyurl.com/5uvoo5 So I went to the LBS and picked out three saddles that I can retrun if I don't like. They are all designed for comfort use like this one: http://tinyurl.com/6bgcs6 They all feel pretty squishy and soft, but I'm gonna install a couple of them and try them out this next week to see how my ass likes them. 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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