Is the stiffstick UP yet?
Wouldnt all the force go right under the support though? I think that if it is going to bend it will bend right under that weld.
No, the point about landing on the front of the seat is that you create a huge moment around the top of the seatpost as both the force and the distance perpendicular to the force are large. By allowing force to be exerted through the front stay you are reducing this moment, this post should be able to withstand much more load at the front of the seat without bending the post or breaking the top weld. This means it has potential benefits over a CF seatbase which infact is likely to make the post easier to break, as due to its stiffness less energy is absorbed in flexing the base, so more goes in to breaking the post. Sounds like a great product to me.
Gilby: Iâm sure youâre not aware of this, but sometimes itâs like youâre speaking a foreign language.
Do not be surprised, my pr0n-sited friend, when you feel misunderstood. If you cannot access your girlfriendâs route to port 80 !EEK!, do not be surprised.
Billy
Good thing I wasnât talking to you, a technically challenged individual.
Oouch!!! !EEK! [insert frown emoticon here]
And that should have been âtechnologically challengedâ.
Now that youâve already succeeded in putting me down, you hit me with ANOTHER one
oh yeah, forgot another thing:
Invention, or design? Many people have made seat posts like this before. But itâs a great thing to have available. Until the unicycle market catches up, seat posts and bases seem to be the weak point on todayâs âstrongâ unicycles.
I was successfully able to view your site at www.stiffstick.com. But I couldnât find any information about the products. Is there a page that tells who can use them?
Such a page would tell you:
- what itâs made of
- what kind of seats it will (or wonât) fit
- dimensions, so people will know if it fits with their seat height
Also Iâd be interested to know how the Universal Stiffstick works. Thatâs a cool idea, where you can retrofit an existing setup. But what holds the moving parts together? How do you tighten the gusset bar?
oh yeah, you just took the Emoticon Course.
See how it changes everything!
[Only for me, on this computer, for some reason I cannot get the emoticons by clicking on them, so I can only get the ones I know how to do on the keyboard, like
and !EEK!]