While my Wilder rail attachment is broken, I’m just wondering: Has anyone made their own Muni seat post, and if so is there a picture available?
Seems to me that a solid pipe welded to my specs could be stronger, possibly lighter, hassle-free, and not too expensive to make.
Given that the Wilder is $69, I’d spend $100 for something better. I don’t need to adjust seat angle. The adjustability of the Wilder has a downside in that there’s separate pieces that can come loose. I’m not using a brake either so this could simplify the design.
I’m just tilting the front of my seats up with aluminum chainring spacers under the front bolts. It works great. On my first muni, I bent the seat plate to the angle I wanted in a bench vise. I really like the front tilted up. No more sliding down onto the middle of the saddle.
Mojoe, that’s great if your using a Viscount saddle, or a saddle with the viscount bolt pattern. If you have a miyata saddle, its using the other bolt holes in that base, the ones that do not give you adjustability space.
With that in mind, disregarding the question of cost-effectiveness, you could get the CF base and drill a Viscount bolt pattern rather than a miyata bolt pattern, then use the GB4 post, giving you the adjustability.
The more I think of that, the more I like it. I might have to do that in the future.
> On my first muni, I bent the seat plate to the angle I wanted…
Hi Mojoe,
Thanks for the saddle modification tip! Is there an advantage or
disadvantage to use spacers over bending the bracket? Did bending it
fatigue it in any way? I think I might like to give my saddle a happy
little tilt as well but I don’t want to pony up money for a new bracket
and post.
