I have the roach seat cover on my Miyata seat with a 20" tube inside the
air pillow. My problem is that the top layer of tube eventually slips to
the left side. Then it doesn’t want to behave when I ask it to reposition
itself correctly. I have to dismantle the seat to correct the situation.
Any advice on how to handle the situation?
Thanks, Bruce http://move.to/daup
REMOVE.TO.REPLYyoopers@inwave.com writes:
>I have the roach seat cover on my Miyata seat with a 20" tube inside the
>air pillow. My problem is that the top layer of tube eventually slips to
>the left side. Then it doesn’t want to behave when I ask it to reposition
>itself correctly. I have to dismantle the seat to correct the situation.
>Any advice on how to handle the situation?
>
>Thanks, Bruce
I have the same trouble. I can’t fix one of my unis that has this cover;
the other seems ok.
David
Co-founder, Unatics of NY 1st Sunday / 3rd Saturday
2:30 @ Central Park Bandshell
Hi Bruce,
I had exactly the same problem so I got a strip of Velcro (about 12" or
so) and cut it in to 2 sections. With the first strip I positioned one
half of the Velcro in the middle of the seat base (cutting out any bits
that would obscure bolts), placed the air pillow as it would be when
assembled. Then, holding one end to keep it in place, I then lifted the
other end and drew with a biro on the air pillow roughly where the other
piece should go to match up. I then did the same for the other section of
Velcro on the inner fold of the pillow - again in the middle. You then
have guides to help you glue or sew the Velcro in to place. So far no
slippage 
Cheers, Neil
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I have the roach seat cover on my Miyata seat with a 20" tube inside the
air pillow. My problem is that the top layer of tube eventually slips to
the left side. Then it doesn’t want to behave when I ask it to reposition
itself correctly. I have to dismantle the seat to correct the situation.
Any advice on how to handle the situation?
Thanks, Bruce http://move.to/daup
Thought I’d also share a bit of learning I accrued one night. My uni once
got caught out in the rain for awhile so I wiped it down and put it away.
Two days later, I decided to disassemble the Roach seat cover to adjust
the slipped tube and found that the inner cloth of the air pillow between
the folded tube was still very wet. I think if I had not caught the
problem, I’d be buying another air pillow to replace the mildewed one.
Bruce http://move.to/daup
Bruce & Mary Edwards wrote:
>
> I have the roach seat cover on my Miyata seat with a 20" tube inside the
> air pillow. My problem is that the top layer of tube eventually slips to
> the left side. Then it doesn’t want to behave when I ask it to
> reposition itself correctly. I have to dismantle the seat to correct the
> situation. Any advice on how to handle the situation?
>
> Thanks, Bruce http://move.to/daup
I have taped my air pillow down to stop it moving. Not pretty but it
works.
The other thing that I have found about the air pillow was that it did
not work as a long distance saddle. Ok for muni where you are bouncing up
and down but not where you are sitting down all the time. The problem is
that when you sit on the back the front goes up and trapped the blood
vessel (and other bits) at the front. This is very bad. I solved this
easily on mine by wrapping elastic bands made from old inner tubes around
the front so that there is a constant pressure on that part of the bag.
Anyone else had this problem and how did you solve it? mine is not a
elegant solution really.
Roger
The UK's Unicycle Source
<a href="http://www.unicycle.uk.com/">http://www.unicycle.uk.com/</a>
----- Original Message ----- From: “Bruce & Mary Edwards”
<REMOVE.TO.REPLYyoopers@inwave.com> To: <unicycling@winternet.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Roach seat
cover problem
> Thought I’d also share a bit of learning I accrued one night. My uni
> once got caught out in the rain for awhile so I wiped it down and put
> it away. Two days later, I decided to disassemble the Roach seat cover
> to adjust the slipped tube and found that the inner cloth of the air
> pillow between the folded tube was still very wet. I think if I had not
> caught the problem, I’d be buying another air pillow to replace the
> mildewed one.
>
> Bruce http://move.to/daup
>
> Bruce & Mary Edwards wrote:
> >
> > I have the roach seat cover on my Miyata seat with a 20" tube inside
> > the air pillow. My problem is that the top layer of tube eventually
> > slips to the left side. Then it doesn’t want to behave when I ask it
> > to reposition itself correctly. I have to dismantle the seat to
> > correct the situation. Any advice on how to handle the situation?
> >
> > Thanks, Bruce http://move.to/daup
I haven’t had any problems using the air pillow for distance riding,
other than taking it apart every other week and “restacking” the pillow
and either drying out or replacing with a dry pillow…at least I’m
not blowing out any more seat tubes. I guess I’m lucky that I can stand
to ride every unicycle seat I’ve ever put together(with air) for at
least 3 hours or more almost every day if I choose. I’ll always be
willing to try a new setup tho…but even a good change takes a
while to get used to.
Something I haven’t heard mentioned here is air pressure adjustments to
the seat. I change air pressure in my seat frequently depending on how
fresh I feel. It seems strange, but if I do long rides like 3 days in a
row, sometimes I can add/subtract a little air from the seat which gives
the seat a different feel to go along with how sore I might be. Anyone
else do this… -Mark
> I have taped my air pillow down to stop it moving. Not pretty but
> it works.
>
> The other thing that I have found about the air pillow was that it did
> not work as a long distance saddle. Ok for muni where you are bouncing
> up and down but not where you are sitting down all the time. The problem
> is that when you sit on the back the front goes up and trapped the blood
> vessel (and other bits) at the front. This is very bad. I solved this
> easily on mine by wrapping elastic bands made from old inner tubes
> around the front so that there is a constant pressure on that part of
> the bag. Anyone else had this problem and how did you solve it? mine is
> not a elegant solution really.
>
> Roger
>
> The UK’s Unicycle Source
> http://www.unicycle.uk.com/
> ----- Original Message ----- From: “Bruce & Mary Edwards”
> <REMOVE.TO.REPLYyoopers@inwave.com> To: <unicycling@winternet.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Roach seat
> cover problem
>
>
>> Thought I’d also share a bit of learning I accrued one night. My uni
>> once got caught out in the rain for awhile so I wiped it down and put
>> it away. Two days later, I decided to disassemble the Roach seat cover
>> to adjust the slipped tube and found that the inner cloth of the air
>> pillow between the folded tube was still very wet. I think if I had not
>> caught the problem, I’d be buying another air pillow to replace the
>> mildewed one.
>>
>> Bruce http://move.to/daup
>>
>> Bruce & Mary Edwards wrote:
>> >
>> > I have the roach seat cover on my Miyata seat with a 20" tube inside
>> > the air pillow. My problem is that the top layer of tube eventually
>> > slips to the left side. Then it doesn’t want to behave when I ask it
>> > to reposition itself correctly. I have to dismantle the seat to
>> > correct the situation. Any advice on how to handle the situation?
>> >
>> > Thanks, Bruce http://move.to/daup
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I had the same problem with my roach cover. I took it apart and duct taped the pillow into the position I wanted it.
This didn’t work that well so I took it apart again and pulled the duct tape off. The ductape left a sticky/gummy residue on the dogbone.
I positioned the now very sticky tube and put it back together. Now the pillows stick together and they also stick to the roach cover. The result was pretty effective, I haven’t had to take my seat apart for over a month.
gbarnes wrote:
>
> I had the same problem with my roach cover. I took it apart and duct
> taped the pillow into the position I wanted it.
>
> This didn’t work that well so I took it apart again and pulled the duct
> tape off. The ductape left a sticky/gummy residue on the dogbone.
>
> I positioned the now very sticky tube and put it back together. Now the
> pillows stick together and they also stick to the roach cover. The
> result was pretty effective, I haven’t had to take my seat apart for
> over a month.
So probably a little of spray adhesive would be just the ticket.
Chris