kh '08?

I think that the KH seat posts and the KH seats need to be altered
majorly. I break a seat stiffener within a week. I go through a seat
post about every month... If somehow those could be changed, then
everything would be good.

KH.


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all great posts so far, thanks everyone.

I'm still wondering if I should order one as soon as they are available
again. My main problem is that I'm a college student and only work 20
hours a week, so it takes a while to save up. I don't like using my
credit card, but I may have to make an exception.


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Brian O. wrote:
Well, the reason everywhere is out of stock is because they all get it
from the same source, UDC. Once UDC runs out, none of the bike shops or
online stores will have any stock to ship.


i thought udc was not the source, but that everyone in the US gets them
from the same source, that mainly deals with UDC

anyways, email AEBIKE about pricing and holding one for you, the
current shipment could very well be bought out already but i believe
the non-advertised price that AE bike has is the cheapest.


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i think that the seat post tube were it connects to the crown at should
be stronger...
i saw a guy at naucc break his frame right there on a step over..


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skrobo wrote:
anyways, email AEBIKE about pricing and holding one for you, the current
shipment could very well be bought out already but i believe the
non-advertised price that AE bike has is the cheapest.


I tried that, they said they wont hold them for anyone.


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GizmoDuck wrote:
yes, but you would still only need 25mm of adjustability if you had the
correct sized seatpost for your height.




Unless of course you like to ride muni with your seat relatively low.

I have the same issue with the seat tube not being long enough on my
KH20. When using it for freestyle I want the seat set relatively high,
but for trials I like to drop it quite low. Even though I use the same
crank length for both styles the seat height gets adjusted quite a bit.
I've tried to optimize for both styles but have found if the post is
short enough to go down as far as I want for trials then it doesn't go
as high as I would like for freestyle.

A longer seat tube would solve this problem but would also mean the
unicycle was not usable by shorter riders without cutting it. A
solution would be to offer both options but I imagine that would be
costly. I wonder if it is possible to get an existing KH frame
modified to have a longer seat tube?

I had this done with my steel miyata frame but I image an aluminium KH
would be quite a different project.


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'Unicyclepa frame design' (http://tinyurl.com/2fk7ce) and Qu-ax style
seatpost 21484 would be nice upgrade for -08 KH
unicycles.


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peter.bier wrote:
Unless of course you like to ride muni with your seat relatively low.

I have the same issue with the seat tube not being long enough on my
KH20. When using it for freestyle I want the seat set relatively high,
but for trials I like to drop it quite low. Even though I use the same
crank length for both styles the seat height gets adjusted quite a bit.
I've tried to optimize for both styles but have found if the post is
short enough to go down as far as I want for trials then it doesn't go
as high as I would like for freestyle.

A longer seat tube would solve this problem but would also mean the
unicycle was not usable by shorter riders without cutting it. A
solution would be to offer both options but I imagine that would be
costly. I wonder if it is possible to get an existing KH frame
modified to have a longer seat tube?

I had this done with my steel miyata frame but I image an aluminium KH
would be quite a different project.



Cutting it shorter is easy, so KH probably should make it to suit the
taller riders. It would be nice to have the vertical slot longer so
that for riders who have to chop their seattube, the don't have to cut
the verticle slot as well.

Ken


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I only know of one modification to the '08 KH line, and that's the tire
on the 29". Kris is using an '08 29er tire right now, and he told me
they would be on the '08 KH. I think its made by WTB but I don't
remember the name, it should be wider than the current tires.


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GizmoDuck wrote:
yes, but you would still only need 25mm of adjustability if you had the
correct sized seatpost for your height.


You are right that for the difference in crank length you would need 25
mm. But for the change in riding style (from MUni to road riding) you
would want the seat to be higher still, probably by at least a couple
of inches. I don't know about the KH29 but the combined requirement
might be more than the seat tube length allows for.


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