On both Saturday night and Sunday I was experiencing this bizarre feeling that I was leaning to the left. I could ride okay but I didn’t quite feel balanced and riding was somewhat erratic. I thought maybe I had bent a crank arm because on Saturday I had let this rather large 250-300 pound guy ride my Uni. He was just some guy who rode as a kid and wanted to have a go at it. He freemounted on the first try and went about 25 ft, but my tire was nearly flat from his weight . I shoulted out, please don’t hop!
But I digress… I checked the crank arms, I checked the seat post and then I decided to check the saddle itself. What I found was this; the tube inside the cloth bone had shifted to one side at the rear, causing one side of the saddle to be a bit higher than the other. So I straightened it out and started riding again and it was whole lot more comfortable, but I still had this strange feeling that I was leaning. After two rides (about a mile each) the feeling of leaning got better. I guess my brain just had to re-adjust. I was doing all sorts of figure eight’s to reprogram my brain and that’s what I think worked.
Has anyone had an experience like this? It was really strange.
When I converted my Bedford saddle to an airseat, I first tried it without
an air-pillow and probably experienced what you just mentioned - the inner
tube did not stay in the center and it (the saddle) was probably less
comfortable than just the foam padding. In any case, I made myself an
air-pillow and everything was pretty good…(until I ordered myself a Miyata
seat, then it got even better)
Alex
jason <jason.8kbrz@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:jason.8kbrz@timelimit.unicyclist.com…
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> On both Saturday night and Sunday I was experiencing this bizarre
> feeling that I was leaning to the left. I could ride okay but I didn’t
> quite feel balanced and riding was somewhat erratic. I thought maybe I
> had bent a crank arm because on Saturday I had let this rather large
> 250-300 pound guy ride my Uni. He was just some guy who rode as a kid
> and wanted to have a go at it. He freemounted on the first try and went
> about 25 ft, but my tire was nearly flat from his weight . I
> shoulted out, please don’t hop!
>
> But I digress… I checked the crank arms, I checked the seat post and
> then I decided to check the saddle itself. What I found was this; the
> tube inside the cloth bone had shifted to one side at the rear, causing
> one side of the saddle to be a bit higher than the other. So I
> straightened it out and started riding again and it was whole lot more
> comfortable, but I still had this strange feeling that I was leaning.
> After two rides (about a mile each) the feeling of leaning got better. I
> guess my brain just had to re-adjust. I was doing all sorts of figure
> eight’s to reprogram my brain and that’s what I think worked.
>
> Has anyone had an experience like this? It was really strange.
>
>
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> jason
>
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. I shoulted out, please don’t hop!
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