In a video produced by Unicycle.com, entitled, “Introduction to Unicycling”, John Foss is seen riding up to the camara on his Muni. Just below his red and white Miyata seat is a triangular support. Does anyone know what that is and how useful it is? Are they any good and if so where can you get them?
Thanks
The brace is designed to reenforce the weld on the Miyata set post. It is
a custom modification. I’m sure John would recommend the Wilder seat post
rail attachment and a standard mtb seatpost designed to accept a seat with
rails as a better option.
John Hooten
teachndad wrote:
> In a video produced by Unicycle.com, entitled, "Introduction to
> Unicycling", John Foss is seen riding up to the camara on his Muni. Just
> below his red and white Miyata seat is a triangular support. Does anyone
> know what that is and how useful it is? Are they any good and if so
> where can you get them?
>
> Thanks
>
> –
> teachndad Posted via the Unicyclist Community -
> http://unicyclist.com/forums
> The brace is designed to reenforce the weld on the Miyata set post. It
> is a custom modification. I’m sure John would recommend the Wilder seat
> post rail attachment and a standard mtb seatpost designed to accept a
> seat with rails as a better option.
No offense to Terrell Williams, who did the welding on mine for free, but
a rail attachment would give you many more options, aside from simply
being able to order one instead of having to design and build it.
My post can be seen in detail in my Garage photo album (not to be confused
with my Garage Page). Go to this page on my site,
http://www.unicycling.com/ofoto/unistuff.htm and then click on “The
Garage”. In there you will see closeups of both my MUnis (I will
eventually take such shots of all my unis) and you can see the post on my
ATU quite well.
The purpose of this post is to defeat the main weakness I have with the
Miyata design, which is that the seat posts usually break where they
attach to the seat base. The metal simply tears. Also, if you were to
simply stiffen that area, the nylon seat base would eventually break at
the rivet holes in front of the seat base. So the seat is bolted both at
the base area and at the front bumper bolts. The seat no longer flexes,
which keeps it from breaking. I had a similar post on my track unicycle,
which was stolen last year in China. This enabled quicker starts because
you could hold the seat tight while accelerating, with no energy loss
through seat flex.
Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com
www.unicycling.com
“The difference between a winner and a loser is character.”
> teachndad wrote:
>
> > In a video produced by Unicycle.com, entitled, "Introduction to
> > Unicycling", John Foss is seen riding up to the camara on
> his Muni. Just
> > below his red and white Miyata seat is a triangular
> support. Does anyone
> > know what that is and how useful it is? Are they any good and if so
> > where can you get them?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > –
> > teachndad Posted via the Unicyclist Community -
> > http://unicyclist.com/forums
> John,
>
> How many uni’s have you had stolen, either directly or indirectly?
Three I think, all in one year. I don’t think I’ve had any stolen before,
though I’ve been close to others who have.
In February 2000, my car was broken into in my driveway at night, and my
two MUnis were stolen. These were recovered a few weeks later because I’d
called all the local bike shops and asked them to be on the lookout for
unusual unicycles. I also called all the local pawn shops and got a lot of
attitude from them, as if they could tell or care if a unicycle being
brought in were stolen or not.
The thief was caught when Denos Cyclery in Sacramento called to tell me
the thief had brought in both unicycles. He offered to give them the
carbon if they’d take the splined cranks off the ATU. The punk was
arrested for possession of stolen property and I got to see him
handcuffed. Don’t know what became of him after that.
My track unicycle was stolen from the grandstand at the track at UNICON X
in Beijing. At the end of the day, the stands were clearing out but I was
stuck down on the track working with officials while my unicycles were
unattended up there. I intercepted a lady carrying my other 24" down, and
offered thanks as I took it from her. She gave me a blank stare. Looks
like I saved that one, but the other one was already gone.
Somebody has it. If we see Chinese racers next summer riding similar
cycles, we’ll know somebody is sharing the “technology” from it…
All three unicycles were either hand built, or customized from their
original configurations. But I don’t think any of them were stolen because
of this. If they were plain old Schwinns in the same situation I think
they’d have been just as gone. And in the case of my MUnis, I’d probably
never have seen them again. But little did my thief know, the unicycles he
took were both unique and easy to spot!
Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com
www.unicycling.com
“The difference between a winner and a loser is character.”
Funny were talking about this. I just snapped the metal Stiffener plate
inside the miyata seat in half. (it popped my airseat tube) I just bought
a caron fiber seat and dogbone pillow to replace it though.
Gotta go to class. Later
Nick Cegelka
NickLikesFire AIM
http://www.extreme.unicyclist.com
— John Foss <john_foss@asinet.com> wrote:
> > The brace is designed to reenforce the weld on the
>
> > Miyata set post. It is a custom modification. I’m sure John would
> > recommend the Wilder seat post rail attachment and a standard mtb
> > seatpost
> designed
> > to accept a seat with rails as a better option.
>
> No offense to Terrell Williams, who did the welding on mine for free,
> but a rail attachment would give you many more options, aside from
> simply being able to order one instead of having to design and build it.
>
> My post can be seen in detail in my Garage photo album (not to be
> confused with my Garage Page). Go to this page on my site,
> http://www.unicycling.com/ofoto/unistuff.htm and then click on "The
> Garage". In there you will see closeups of both my MUnis (I will
> eventually take such shots of all my unis) and you can see the post on
> my ATU quite well.
>
> The purpose of this post is to defeat the main weakness I have with the
> Miyata design, which is that the seat posts usually break where they
> attach to the seat base. The metal simply tears. Also, if you were to
> simply stiffen that area, the nylon seat base would eventually break at
> the rivet holes in front of the seat base. So the seat is bolted both at
> the base area and at the front bumper bolts. The seat no longer flexes,
> which keeps it from breaking. I had a similar post on my track unicycle,
> which was stolen last year in China. This enabled quicker starts because
> you could hold the seat tight while accelerating, with no energy loss
> through seat flex.
>
> Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com
> www.unicycling.com
>
> “The difference between a winner and a loser is character.”
John,
How many uni’s have you had stolen, either directly or indirectly?
John Foss wrote:
I had a similar post on my track unicycle, which was stolen
> last year in China.