Dude get a better camera, that photo sucks.
meh.
So, geuss what I just ordered BEFORE reading this thread :o
No I didn’t. Kris said he thought it was a weld problem but after looking at it he said I actually just broke straight through the metal. He was impressed 
If youre talking about standard 4-bolt posts. =p
2months with my 08kh post, and no complaints. had a crmo post for an hour before it was done. only thing was, the 08 post didnt fit my cf base, its too deeply curved. nothing some kokanee shims couldnt fix:)
You guys are weird. Alu post last for 8 months, but a cromo for an hour? Do you just go take 20ft drops with cromo’s and freestyle with alu posts?
It really baffles me as to how anything to that effect could be true. Really, either your ‘embelishing’, it’s defective, or you suddenly become really smooth with an alu.
I ride a alu, it’s strong enough, atleast for now anyways. If your breaking posts, get a cromo. You can easily weld it instead of getting a whole new post.
Yea I dont understand this either. My cromo post lasted way way longer than any alu post I have had. Then when it finaly broke I just welded it up and I havent had a problem again since.
I wish it was the other way round, a lighter post would be nice.
When I rode BMX we broke or bent aluminum seat posts all the time, ultimatley even bent the solid aluminum posts 
So we went to Chromoly and they lasted just fine.
No post so far has really lasted me over 4 months (well… for the past 2 years…)
So you mean to tell me that flips fatigue cromo, the stronger material, faster than alu, thus breaking the cromo 8 or more times faster.
Yeah, I’m not buying that.
I really don’t think cromo is allergic to flips. I’ll call my Doctor and see if he can do some tests, though.
I think some people are greatly embelishing. ( i.e. full of shit in a less polite way)
Haha, dude, its simple. Why do people move to cromo? Because they are getting better, doing harder tricks, going bigger, and wrecking more. Their cromo will break easily,and depending on a few factors, it could break faster than their alum. posts, maybe stay solid for the same amount, or out last aluminum.
A bike example is horrible. All the gaps, and drops ive done I bike, I dont ever remember holding onto the seat, I remember standing up, and holding onto handle bars though. Pretty different from a jumping and riding a uni.
And stats of metal arent really going to work here either. Things like riding style (Street, trials, muni) how big you go, how you ride, blah blah is going to determine rather a post is going to break for someone faster than others. I really dont remember a time doing SIF hops and then having full weight going right onto the top of the seat, how ever I remember that happening a lot while learning flips down sets and drops.
Pele.. you should take a picture… for some reason… my brain is not registering what you are talking about…
P.s. I think i could fix that seat post
That is my point, some move to cromo for those reasons, but if you go by what these people are saying that would be stupid as it is much heavier and weaker. I mean, it breakes 8 or more times faster.
Could you tell me what would those factor are, please? Could you tell me why some insist that alu is stronger than cromo?
Explain this please. How could it not? We are talking about which one is stronger. I’m pretty sure which metal is stronger kind of plays into that, excuse me if I’m wrong.
I realize this. This would not in any way account for a cromo breaking 8x faster than an alu for the same person. I’m assuming they did the same style with both. If not, as I said in my other post do they go off 20ft drops with the cromo and only freestyle with alu? If so they have no business saying one is stronger than the other.
That would also not account for people suggesting over long term usage of both that alu is stronger, as both posts would be subject to relatively equal forces.
Cromo is stronger. Alu is lighter. I ride alu, it works for me. I have broken a cromo though, do I insist that it is stronger than alu? No. I broke it attempting flips and doing large, rough seat in landings with no rollout. I account for this when saying one is stronger than the other. I don’t think that is happening here at all.
I was looking at the post and saw that they were all breaking in the same place with the exception of Peles and was thinking that it would probably be a good idea to have that neck slowly fuse into the post.
I’m working on some solutions. Since the forged piece isn’t breaking, improving the join shouldn’t be too hard.
Note - all 2009 KH forged posts (those that arrived in shops in Jan’09 or later) have a pin reinforcement across the join between the post and the forged top piece, in addition to the weld, to help resist twisting that seems to occasionally break the weld.
If you have a post like this and it breaks at that weld within the 1 year warranty period, yes it’s subject to warranty. Just send it back.
Kris
Emile,
That sounds broken to me - you should send it back.
Kris
Kris id just like to say on behalf of everyone else what amazing quality products you make and its amazing that you are taking seat posts back. thank you so much.
mine broke exactly the same as that
mine broke on a douleback too
Is this covered by warrenty then? do i need to send it back to unicycle.com?
thanks
simon