Re: Seat post awesomeness:

here it is before painting:

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and here is mine, with sexy holes:

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and finally, a bottom view with the seatpost attached to the seat:

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Holy [censored]!

That is one of the coolest reinforcements i have ever seen!, nice
work.

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Way to go there ...

Looks sturdy to me 😄

Now you need to copywrite that puppy before someone else does.
(I'm serious)
I think theres money to made here ...

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I'm with DigitalDave on this one. You might be able to sell the design.
It looks like a heavy piece of equipment, but it also looks like
neither the seat nor the seat post has any chance of breaking.

Excellent work!

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Nice. I really like it. Did you use the setpost that broke, or are
those new ones?

As it happens, I just broke seatpost today. It's a stock Torker LX post
that I was using with my Summit trials. The only reason I was using
that one was that I wanted to use my Torker (Miyata) seat with my Summit
uni.

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http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albums/Broken-Post/DSC00509.sized.jpg]

Would you guys be willing to make one for me? How much would you
charge?

Good job,
Daniel

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Very awesome. Even cooler that it was painted. Very nice job, and well
done. Keep us updated on how stiff it makes the saddle feel.

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Looks beautiful. I'd like a chrome one! This is the way to go for
non-adjustable angle posts. You can stick any additioinal handle onto
the front of that seat and post, and you should never have to worry
about stiffness or breakage of the post.

*Lightness:*My original one was aluminum. That was sweet. It was on my
super-light, super-custom track unicycle, which was stolen at Unicon X.
I think that one had the seat post base plate running all the way up to
the front bolts. Miyata seats have changed since then. It was still very
light.

My current one is steel, but has less metal in it. Definitely heavier
than the racing one though. But if you want non-breakage, you have to
put up with a little extra weight too...

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nice Leif, who helped you with it? i didnt know you knew how to weld.
anyways, very clean indeed.

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After riding it, it feels VERY different. I need to get used to the
stiffness, but I think it added about an inch to my hop height, which is
great. it probably could be made lighter by putting in more holes or
something, but I don't notice it too much.

Dave: I should sell it to bedford or something...:p that'd be great.. I
need to figure out the copyright stuff, though. it was john's idea,
though, right?

Daino: I don't think I could make you one, because that would require a
miyata seatpost, and also I'm not really looking to go into business.

Aaron: I got it welded at a local welding place, because i don't know
how to weld. I don't know how much that cost, but I doubt it was much.

Over all, i'm very happy with the finished product, and I think it
should be very strong indeed. The only way I can see it breaking is if
it crushed the seatpost tube in at the corner of the weld, though that
would be pretty crazy. If that ever happens, I'm gonna be sure to send
you pictures. :p

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wow thats sexy!! i love the paint job! great color.

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DigitalDave said:

*Way to go there ...

Looks sturdy to me 😄

Now you need to copywrite that puppy before someone else does.
(I'm serious)
I think theres money to made here ... *

In all seriousness I am feverently against doing stuff such as
copywriting. It breeds an environment of competition and hostility. This
is too small a market to start trying to prevent others from seeing
designs. I think unicycling should stay open, allowing people to make
whatever they want. Also, you didn't even create the design, so why
would you go and copywrite it? That is exactly why people copywrite
things in the first place, so to not steal the design and copywrite it
means that noone else has to. If everyone is fostering to open design
sharing, then everyone benefits.

Otherwise a very cool design. Does it help with seat out?

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Definatley looks like something for Joe Dyson! He almost ripped his seat
in half during the high jump at NZUni weekend.

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This is exactly what excites the heck outta me...we have so much room
for improvement and innovation in every uni part.
Beautiful work Fuego!!! And continuing props to Foss too for his great
ideas!

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you should definitley think about mass producing those

i know i need one

how heavy does it make it?

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gerblefranklin said:

In all seriousness I am feverently against doing stuff such as
copywriting. It breeds an environment of competition and hostility.
This is too small a market to start trying to prevent others from
seeing designs. I think unicycling should stay open, allowing people
to make whatever they want. *Also, you didn't even create the design,
so why would you go and copywrite it?* -That is exactly why people
copywrite things in the first place, so to not steal the design and
copywrite it means that noone else has to. If everyone is fostering to
open design sharing, then everyone benefits.-

Otherwise a very cool design. Does it help with seat out?

I really would like to post the same negativity back at you, but, I
wont.
Copywrighting does not mean the designs are not shared within an
industry. I think you are confused.

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well, I forgot about this thread, so I'm bumping it with a report on
preformance:

I can't really feel the weight differance yet, but I think it's not too
much. We used a rather thick piece of steel, so it probably could be
slimmed down a bit, not to mention the holes I drilled for sexyness
could be larger/more, that would shed some weight. However, I cant feel
too much of the differance.

It's really a LOT stiffer. (As in no bend at all). so it takes some
getting used to. I still can't quite hop as high i think, but on the
other hand, all my unicycling has been to and from school with a
backpack of books, so that changes a lot. :p

The one bad side I did notice is that a stiffer seat seems a bit less
comfortable, though this is a small sacrifice.

LITTLE, BAD TUTORIAL:

On the whole, it wasn't too hard to make. All we did was cut a thin
cardboard pattern that fit the countours of the individual seat, (this
is important. all the angles will screw it up if you don't get it right.
not PERFECT right, but it has to fit. Then, I etched the pattern in with
a punch. (not hard at all. I'm making a tutorial here, ok? bear with me.
SOMEBODY doesn't know how to do it.) I cut it out with a hacksaw, which
was medium hard, and time consuming. (oil your saw and notch. it helps.)
I made it fit well on a grinding wheel that we recently acquired, and
smoothed it out with a file. The grinding might be the single hardest
thing for people who don't have equipment. You could probably get it to
work with a file, but that would be a lot of work. I really don't know
how else you would do it, though. Then we took it down to a welding
shop, where we got it welded. This cost $10 per seatpost, so it wasn't
that expensive at all. Then, all I had to do was paint it, and you can
do this however you want. Personally, I just spraypainted it over a coat
of primer, because it was easy.

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somebody should put this tutorial on a website somewhere so it doesn't
get buried in the forum.

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