<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Are 450 mm seat posts
available for <BR>the Miyata seat? Unicycle.com’s longest is 300.
I’d love to get rid of that <BR>clunky seat post extension on my 20/
<BR> <BR>Joe Merrill <BR> <BR>In a message dated 6/28/01 9:07:13 AM
Eastern Daylight Time, <BR>lutkus@unicyclist.com writes: <BR> <BR>
<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style=“BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid;
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with a 300mm seat post, which was not quite in it’s <BR>highest position.
Now, I ride a 20" with the same sized frame and what <BR>would
amount to about a 450mm post. </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR></FONT><FONT
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> Are 450 mm seat posts available for the Miyata seat? Unicycle.com’s > longest is 300. I’d love to get rid of that clunky seat post extension > on my 20/ > > Joe Merrill > > In a message dated 6/28/01 9:07:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > lutkus@unicyclist.com writes:
Actually my dad cuts off the seat post of miyata seats and then
welds on a 16" seat pst to the bracket. He will be selling them at
nationals, I think, for 15$ when u trade in your onld seat post.
im not sure what 16" comes out to be in MM. sorry
-Max A. Dingemans
Miyata doesn’t make them, I can tell you that much. And if you want
anything longer than 400mm, I’m not sure you can even find one of those
with a Schwinn bolt pattern.
However, there are some people in this newsgroup with the metal working
skills to put something together. (Unfortunately, I am not yet one of
these people, but I hope to change that some day.)
— Nycjoe@aol.com > wrote: <FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Are 450 mm seat posts > available for <BR>the Miyata seat? Unicycle.com’s longest is 300. > I’d love to get rid of that <BR>clunky seat post extension on my > 20/ <BR> <BR>Joe Merrill <BR> <BR>In a message dated 6/28/01 9:07:13 AM > Eastern Daylight Time, <BR>lutkus@unicyclist.com writes: <BR> <BR> > <BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; > MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I learned on a > 20" with a 300mm seat post, which was not quite in it’s <BR>highest > position. Now, I ride a 20" with the same sized frame and what > <BR>would amount to about a 450mm post. </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR></FONT><FONT > COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY=“SANSSERIF” FACE=“Arial” LANG=“0”></FONT>
For anyone building or buying a custom Miyata post with MUni, distance or
trials in mind (basically anything but freestyle), I would suggest getting
one that’s tilted up in the front. For distance riding it takes some of
the load off your crotch because you can sit on your cheeks a little more.
For trials it puts the handle up higher where you can actually reach it
even when the seat is nice and low. The only byproduct is that the
transition from seat between the legs and seat out back (as well as vice
versa) becomes more difficult. Maybe those riders with rail mount posts
can comment on what the ideal angle seems to be, since it is pretty easy
for them to change and experiment.
> >Are 450 mm seat posts available for the Miyata seat?> > > Tommy Miller at the Unicycle Factory made one for me a few years ago.I > don’t remember the cost, but it wasn’t much. He does a great job. > > David Maxfield Bainbridge Island, WA
— Chris Reeder <reed8990@uidaho.edu> wrote: …> For anyone building or
buying a custom Miyata post with MUni, > distance or trials in mind (basically anything but freestyle), I would > suggest getting one that’s tilted up in the front.
I completely agree. With a uni that accepts bike seatposts you can do this
with the Wilder Rails Attachment.
Another reason that a tilted up seatpost is good is that it seems to help
for gliding on a unicycle with a large tire and high fork crown. Having
the seat tilted up keeps the seat between my knees (increasing control),
even if my knees are scrunched up on the high fork crown and tire.