the seat post question

After nearly breaking another miyata seat, I decided it’s really time to
go for a carbon fiber seat base + suspension post.

So I’ll need the wilder rail bracket. The question is (I can’t see it from
the pictures on unicycle.com) : are the bracket + rail attachement adding
a lot of extra height to the seat ? It seems for instance the Cane Creek
post is adding some height.

On my pashley, my miyata seat post end is almost 1 cm above the 2.6 tire
and it’s the limit if I want to ride efficiently (I’m 1m80 tall) - so
extra height could be an issue on that 26’’ uni.

I’m not quite sure how much a seat post can be shortened and still
be viable.

Oli- the seat breaker

opaugamATaptilonDOTcom !

The Wilder bracket adds a little less than 1.5 inches to the length of the
post. You might be a tad short for that suspension post.

There is nothing wrong with a good quality rigid MTB or BMX post instead
of a suspension post. Carbon fiber base + Wilder bracket + Roach cover +
air pillow + rigid MTB post + Miyata bumpers = one strong sweet seat.

john_childs

>From: “Olivier Paugam” <opaugam@aptilon.com> Reply-To: “Olivier Paugam”
><opaugam@aptilon.com> To: <unicycling@winternet.com> Subject: the seat
>post question Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:34:37 -0400
>
>
>After nearly breaking another miyata seat, I decided it’s really time to
>go for a carbon fiber seat base + suspension post.
>
>So I’ll need the wilder rail bracket. The question is (I can’t see it
>from the pictures on unicycle.com) : are the bracket + rail attachement
>adding a lot of extra height to the seat ? It seems for instance the Cane
>Creek post is adding some height.
>
>On my pashley, my miyata seat post end is almost 1 cm above the 2.6 tire
>and it’s the limit if I want to ride efficiently (I’m 1m80 tall) - so
>extra height could be an issue on that 26’’ uni.
>
>I’m not quite sure how much a seat post can be shortened and still
>be viable.
>
>Oli- the seat breaker
>
>opaugamATaptilonDOTcom !
>


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