When I started learning how to ride at the beginning of the year, I
lowered my seat post. It wouldn't go low enough to where I felt
comfortable, so I cut some off the bottom. Then I cut some more off.
As soon as I could go a few feet, I realized that I'd lowered it more
than I needed to, so I raised it back up. I thought I'd raised it back
up enough, but now that I'm feeling comfortable on it, I think I can
raise it another half-inch or inch or so. Unfortunately -- as I'm sure
some of you have guessed at this point -- I cut too much off, and I've
got it as high as it will go.:o
So I need to get a new seat post. I'm pretty sure that what I've got
is a United seat post
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=271), or something
very similar, as it has the cross-hatch etching. There's 8 inches
left, so I figure I need something that's 11 or 12 inches.
But what kind should I get? I just read some threads here about seat
posts breaking, but I'm not worried about that: I'm not doing anything
off-road, and won't be for a long, long time, and I'm not interested in
trials, I'm just going to be riding (or attempting to ride!) on
relatively flat pavement, at relatively low speeds. My biggest concern
is that the post that I have is all dimpled at all of the places where
I clamped it in, and I'd like to get something that is less likely to
bend like that, because it seems to me that if it's less likely to
bend, it will be less likely to move if (er, when) it hits the ground
during a UPD. I noticed while attempting to freemount (ha ha, THERE'S
something that will take a while) that the seat kept wanting to tweak
out of center just by the small amount of pressure I was applying with
my legs. But I'm not sure if that's something that's just going to
happen, regardless of what kind I get.
For what it's worth, the unicycle is a 24" Sun, and the external
diameter of the seat post is just shy of 7/8" (so I assume it's a
22.2mm).
Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Rich
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http://richonaunicycle.blogspot.com
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