After riding the Torker/Torture for a while, my crotch hurt like heck.
Whom are you going to call?
I bought an air pillow seat–it cost more than the Torker/Torture–
but it was well worth it! I can now ride more than 15 or 20 minutes
at a time.
I don’t know what seat’s on the Torker, and I don’t know how much riding you’ve done on other unicycles but…
My first uni was a Pashley UMX with a seat which consisted of a flat piece of steel about an inch and a half wide, with a thin piece of cheap foam held on by thin nylon cloth. Te cloth tore within days and I held the foam on with bicycle handlebar tape. That sufficed for years before I got a ‘suitable’ saddle from a child’s bike. (Walking will do the child good, heh heh!)
And that piece of flat steel and thin foam was how I thought uni seats had to be. I’d never seen another unicycle. I rode it around our local nature reserve for miles, night after night.
On my newer unicycles, I have Viscount seats (except the 28 which has a Velo seat) and all of them are good for 40 - 60 minutes without a stop.
So, try these things:
- Adjust the saddle height. More likely than not, it’s a touch too low.
- Wear padded cycle shorts with nothing underneath, and do NOT wear restrictive shorts or trousers over the top.
- Maintain a fairly fast pedalling cadence.
- Adjust your position in the saddle periodically.
- Ride something challenging to keep your mind on the riding, and to force you to adjust your weight distribution.
- Ride it more!
The answer is NOT simply to throw money at the project.
If the uni is still too uncomfotable, after you’ve given it a few miles of practice, then surely you can fit a Viscount/Miyata/KH/Velo seat as appropriate. You may (or may not) need a new seat post (under 10 GBQ/15 US$) and you may or may not need shims.
But most of all, don’t despair. It’s a hobby, not an Iron Person Challenge.
Re: Torker 24" == Torture 24"
You misunderstood. The new seat works like a charm. I’m very happy
with it now.
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:41:23 -0600, Mikefule
<Mikefule.eky5m@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>I don’t know what seat’s on the Torker, and I don’t know how much riding
>you’ve done on other unicycles but…
>
>My first uni was a Pashley UMX with a seat which consisted of a flat
>piece of steel about an inch and a half wide, with a thin piece of cheap
>foam held on by thin nylon cloth. Te cloth tore within days and I held
>the foam on with bicycle handlebar tape. That sufficed for years before
>I got a ‘suitable’ saddle from a child’s bike. (Walking will do the
>child good, heh heh!)
>
>And that piece of flat steel and thin foam was how I thought uni seats
>had to be. I’d never seen another unicycle. I rode it around our local
>nature reserve for miles, night after night.
>
>On my newer unicycles, I have Viscount seats (except the 28 which has a
>Velo seat) and all of them are good for 40 - 60 minutes without a
>stop.
>
>So, try these things:
>1) Adjust the saddle height. More likely than not, it’s a touch too
>low.
>2) Wear padded cycle shorts with nothing underneath, and do NOT wear
>restrictive shorts or trousers over the top.
>3) Maintain a fairly fast pedalling cadence.
>4) Adjust your position in the saddle periodically.
>5) Ride something challenging to keep your mind on the riding, and to
>force you to adjust your weight distribution.
>6) Ride it more!
>
>The answer is NOT simply to throw money at the project.
>
>If the uni is still too uncomfotable, after you’ve given it a few miles
>of practice, then surely you can fit a Viscount/Miyata/KH/Velo seat as
>appropriate. You may (or may not) need a new seat post (under 10 GBQ/15
>US$) and you may or may not need shims.
>
>But most of all, don’t despair. It’s a hobby, not an Iron Person
>Challenge.
>
>Mikefule - Roland Hope School of Unicycling
The standard Torker seat is definitely a child’s size seat. It is one of the smallest if not THE smallest unicycle seat around.
B
Re: Torker 24" == Torture 24"
Yes, it is quite small. Perfect size (if not a touch too big) for my 4
yr. old daughter. If anyone knows of a smaller seat I’d like to hear about
it. I’ll be putting together a 10" uni for my 2 year old for Christmas and
he could really use a smaller seat.
-mg
“yoopers” <yoopers.eltmy@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
news:yoopers.eltmy@timelimit.unicyclist.com…
>
> The standard Torker seat is definitely a child’s size seat. It is one
> of the smallest if not THE smallest unicycle seat around.
>
> B
>
>
> –
> yoopers - Bruce & Mary Edwards
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> yoopers’s Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/31
> View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/21801
>
Re: Torker 24" == Torture 24"
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:15:38 -0700, “Michael Grant”
<michael_j_grant@msn.com> wrote:
> I’ll be putting together a 10" uni for my 2 year old for Christmas
Michael,
this request is a tad early but I hope you will post some progress
reports on the 2 year old’s unicycling. If successful, he/she will be
one of the youngest unicyclists around. (If not the current youngest.)
It just occurred to me that a small person on a small frame has to
have better balance capabilities to ride at all because the act of
falling allows less time for correction. Compare it with balancing a
stick on your finger: the shorter the stick, the more difficult the
trick.
Klaas Bil
There are approximately 450 million chickens in the United States.
I just noticed there’s a new 12 inch unicycle coming out December 20th on unicycle.com. There’s no picture, but it says it has a child-size saddle. It might just be the Torker saddle, though. Here’s a link: http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=644
Nikki
Personally I have been riding the Torker seat for a year now. That being the only seat, and unicycle, I have ever ridden I can’t compare it to anything. I do have a bit of discomfort after a bit of riding. I think it’s the worse when all I’m doing is riding straight.
I agree. It seems to be a lot less sore when I’m working on skills or something.
I will be getting a Unistar, stealth torker, soon (I hope) so I will be able to check out that seat when it comes.
I know you guys are always saying that the Torker seat is a child size seat and I am a bit one the small size, so I think that works to my advantage. I am:
20 years old
140 pounds
5’6"
single and enjoy long walks on the beach 
Daniel