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Attaching a rail adapter...?

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  1. I was at a friend's house earlier and noticed that the neighbors were
    throwing away two perfectly good bicycle frames! I did what any good
    unicyclist would do, and packed them into my trunk to take them home
    and make into unicycles 🙂. So now I have two nice frames (a mongoose
    mountain bike with 24"/26" rear tire (didnt measure yet), gel seat,
    rail adapter, and nicer pedals than what I have, and a smaller (maybe
    stunt bike?) bare frame).

    I was thinking that it might be nice to cut some of the gel out of the
    seat and put it into my Torker LX seat, so I'll handle that, but I
    can't figure out how to attach this rail-adapter (i think that's what
    it is?) to my seat. I would really like to be able to position my seat
    a little bit differently, and I can tell that this thing on the bottom
    of the gel seat would allow me to do this, but it has three places that
    attach to a seat, and my current seat (miyata style) has four...

    If anyone has any ideas as to what I might be able to do with these
    parts, I'd like to hear them!

    I was thinking of making a geared-up unicycle...

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  2. well i believe for the rail adapter you need a different seatpost

    one like this http://tinyurl.com/axhga

    o wups sorry i re read it and now after reading that i dont believe you
    can attach them without changing things. i may be wrong though.

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  3. Generally, if you want to make your unicycle seat more positionable, you
    put a 'rail type seat post ' (http://tinyurl.com/axhga)in your frame.
    You then need to buy a 'rail adaptor ' (http://tinyurl.com/2k1o)that
    bolts onto the four hole system that a uni seat uses. So if the seat
    post fits, use it. But I don't think there is a bike seat out there
    that uses the same rail setup, a lot of them don't even come off.

    Hope this helps.

    Matt

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  4. Yeah, it looks like it would take quite an effort to get these things to
    work together.

    Oh well.

    Once I get a hacksaw from the other house I plan to saw off the end of
    the tube near the handlebar-holder/aligner and put a seatpost & seat in
    there. It will be a slightly-reclined unicycle with gears and a 700c x
    35mm wheel.

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