KH air seat tuning

Its strange you say this, just this week I noticed my KH air seat on my
Coker started doing the same and causes me to sit crooked when riding
and I to tried to move the air cushion around, but after a couple miles
it was back to the same slipping out the left side. If you figure out
whats up let me know I have put about 35-40 miles on seat before this
started
I think I will try to velcro the cushion in place?
Robert

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I'm having similar problems with my bedford air seat, but I took mine
appart and put it back together when I got it to see how it was built,
so perhaps I screwed up somehow. However, now that you folks are
mentioning it, I have an idea. cut yourself a 1cm by 1cm by 5-8cm
piece of dense foam and glew or otherwise attach it to the seet base,
like a spine along the center. Now bend the tube into the shape it
needs, and hold it there by wrapping some string around it and
attaching the string somehow. Now place the wrapped tube on the seet
base, so that the foam juts up between the two tubes forming the middle
of the seet. The foam should act as an anchor holding the tubes in
place. You will need to cut slits in the foam for the string to pass
through. Let me know how it works, or what you do if you ger better
advice from somebody else.

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two words:
Duct. Tape.

almost all of the world's problems could theoretically be solved,
directly or indirectly, by duct tape. Except for world hunger. we are
still working on that one. :p

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The double layer air seats made with the 'dogbone air pillow'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=258) are problematic.
The flopping over is one of their problems.

Some people have gotten the double layer air seats to their liking by
using duct tape to hold them together, using snaps to hold the two
halves together, sewing the two halves together, adding little bits of
foam to hold the tube in the shape they want, and many other homebrew
fixes.

Another option is to go with a single layer air pillow design like I
have in my 'JC Airseat gallery'
(http://gallery.unicyclist.com/Airseat). That makes for a very nice
muni seat. It's not quite as ideal for a Coker seat but can do well as
a Coker seat with the right foam. I think the air pillow with the KH
gel seat foam on top would make for a nice Coker seat but I have not
tried that combo yet.

Down at the bottom of the JC Airseat gallery you'll see my current
Coker seat experiment. I'm trying a pure foam seat for the Coker. The
foam is from a 2005 KH Fusion and the foam has been trimmed down to
make it more comfortable for me. I've only put one quick ride on it so
far. It's a quick and easy modification of a basic KH Fusion seat.

I'm going to ride it for at least a month before passing judgment on
it. I gotta give my butt time to adjust before passing judgment too
soon. But so far it looks like it will be great. More firm than the
air seat I was using and I'm hoping that makes it more comfortable for
longer distances. My JC Coker airseat was very comfy for sort rides of
10 miles but was not comfortable for longer rides of 20 or 30+ miles.
Air just doesn't give you the ability to move the pressure points
around by sitting on different parts of the saddle.

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Oh, I should have added that you can turn the double layer dogbone style
air pillow into a single layer air pillow by sewing it in half. In
fact, you could turn it in to two air pillows if you wanted to. Quick
and easy.

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abbabibble said:

almost all of the world's problems could theoretically be solved,
directly or indirectly, by duct tape. Except for world hunger. we are
still working on that one. :p

Invention wanted: edible duct tape!

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Thanks for the tips. I haven't had any problems with the two halfs
slipping over each other, only with the folded end sliding off the seat
base. I sewed some velcro to the dogbone tube bag and stuck some to
the seat base. I took it for a one hour spin today, and so far so
good.

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