Hey everyone,
Today, while practicing doubleflips, I landed (first attempt) on my Torker LX handle, bending my seatpost. This is the second seatpost I’ve bent in a week.
I’m scared that this will happen with my forged seatpost. Will it bend the first time I land on the handle.
The KH posts are suposed to be pretty strong but if you are using the LX saddle it isn’t going to fit. You are either stuck using LX/miata style seat posts or need a new saddle to go with the KH post.
Why would you give a beating to a seatpost?
I think it will take a beating with you riding. But that’s not the question. The question is whether or not it will stand up to the beating. 
I would imagine that it is much more stronger than an LX seat post, but that’s just my imagination…
If you hit it, it will get up straight your ass, before bending 
I think so far only three people have broken the KH forged post (me being one of them). At least I haven’t heard of it happening more than three times. In any case, it will probably break before it will bend. It never bent for me, it just broke.
Get the right kind of seat and a udc cromo. Put some gussets on it if your that worried.
Mine wiggled for about a week or two before it finally broke off completely.
The UDC cromo is very breakable. I have broken at least 4.
lol
I think we have had this discussion?
I don’t see how you think alu is stronger than cromo.
Even if the off chance that is was, you can reweld it, add gussets and make it 10x better for pretty much nothing.
I don’t think alu is stronger than cromo. I think that cromo is slightly stronger than alu when looking at all the 07 seatposts, 07 post alu takes me about 2-3 weeks to break on average, while cromo takes me about 4-5 weeks to break on average. Cromo is just a bit stronger.
However, the KH forged is built much much better than the current Cromo post. Nowadays, the KH forged is probably the strongest unicycle-specific post on the market, simply because the welds are not in the weakest places.
Edit: I think it took me 3 months to break the KH forged. Maybe a bit more.
Disclaimer: I have not tried the K1 Pit Fighter 2.
Hey,
Since January’09 the KH forged post has been pinned at the join between the forged top piece and the tube, in addition to the weld. Has anyone managed to twist the pinned version of this post?
Also, has anybody actually broken the forged top piece (e.g. not twisted it but rather snapped the plate)?
Kris
True, but you get used to it quickly.
What about solid aluminum (not a tube like normal seat posts, but a rod). I can cast aluminum, and I’m thinking a I can make a fortune selling indestructible seat posts with all of this happening ;). Would a solid rod be too heavy?
It would be incredibly heavy, and would not really solve any problems either. On 27.2mm posts, the tube is very rarely what breaks first.
I have 2 of them and they have held up longer than any of the KH normal posts but the one i most recently got makes really weird noises and it looks like the weld between the post and were the saddle part connects is not completely welded… i don’t know if that makes sense but i don’t know why it is making these sounds i haven’t done anything big on it and the other is fine.
It’s a great post anyways! Much much much stronger than the other KH Post.
Thanks Kris!