Re: Massive Nimbus Dissapointment

I recently received a Nimbus 24 Muni. The seat post in that slides in
and out effortlessly when the allen screws are loose. Very strange that
yours locked up like that.

Sounds like the seat post was bent and then it was jammed into the frame
to the point where it got stuck permanently. I'll bet if you took a KH
unicycle, put it into a vice and started torqueing it, you'd be able to
bend that frame too.

Next time instead of the bike mechanics using a bigger hammer, they
should have tried a little finesse and trickery.

I feel for you in your disappointment. Hope you get a new one soon.

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Usually the seat + post are separate from the frame. Each one I got from
unicycle.com came in a squareish box, Frame is separate from the wheel
as well.

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When my Yuni/Nimbus 24x3 arrived about a year ago, it also had the seat
and post seperate from the frame (inside the box), so did my Torker, Sun
and Coker. It sounds as though the guys at the shop somehow managed to
get the seatpost stuck in the frame. I actually had a problem with my
seatpost twisting in the frame until I installed a better quality seat
post clamp. I would contact Unicycle.com and ask if they could rush your
order. You've been through enough torture already🙁 🙁

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Why would it twist and break? Isn't it a muni? Aren't those supposed to
be damn near indestructible?

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PopeSamXVI said:

*Why would it twist and break? Isn't it a muni? Aren't those supposed
to be damn near indestructible?
*

That's what I thought. I think that's what the B*ke mechanics also
thought.

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Sounds like you got a bad mUni......
I work at a bike shop, I'm suprised the mechanics did not spray a little
anti-seaze around the seat post and let it sit a few minutes to see if
it'd loosen up.........but still, the frame should not have broken so
effortlessly.

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dogbowl said:

*So, they put the unicycle into a vice and continued trying to un-jam
the seatpost--then the frame twisted. It broke.*

Dude, if I ever saw those jokers stick my uni into a vice I would yell
WWWAAAAAIIIITTTTTTT!!!!!

That was a definete sign that these cats were far from the litter box.

A vice? What are they, crazy? I agree with "One on one" in fact, no
unicycle should ever be placed in a vice, no way! Sounds to me like a
little bit of anti-uni bicycle mechanic sabatogue!

Then again, maybe someone at uni-com messed up and placed a bent seat
post into the package and the poor dumb biker who put your uni together
just rammed the bent sucker in there, bent enough to ruin your uni, but
not enough to see.

Next time, dogbowl, order direct from those sweet people down in
georgia. But that also begs the question, how would YOU know if the seat
post was bent. How would I? Or the ones who sent it? Or manufactured it?
Maybe it fell down on the factory floor in Shanghai or Vietnam or Mexico
or whereever the Hell seatposts are made these days, maybe the guy or
girl who made the thing on the assembly line had no idea that your
seatpost was bent because it fell off the assembly track at lunchtime.
No one wants these things to happen (except for the bike sabateurs).

How could anyone know that your bike post was a ticking frame-ruining
timebomb, until it was too late?

Dr. Fleshflower

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Sounds like the seatpost was too long and they didn't cut it to
length. I managed to get a seatpost stuck in a frame when I installed
it too deep. A burr inside the frame caught the seatpost and it took
some serious coersion (and a good bit of WD40) to get it free.

Placing blame shouldn't be your worry. If the shop you bought from is
reputable they will work it with Unicycle.com (who I trust to do the
right thing). I'd say it is reasonable to ask for express shipping of
the parts you need, but I'd also be willing to pay the extra cost if
that's what it takes.

Ken

Someone goofed. A bicycle mechanic will know better than to force a
seatpost into a frame. A bicycle mechanic would also put grease on the
seatpost. The grease is there to keep the seatpost from oxidizing and
seizing in the frame. The grease also serves to help make it easier to
extract the post.

There are several possibilities why the seatpost got stuck.

The neck of that particular frame could have been undersized while that
particular seatpost could have been oversized. Parts are never exactly
the stated size. They are always manufactured with tolerances. So a
seatpost that is supposed to be 22.2 mm will actually be 22.2 mm plus or
minus a little bit. So maybe the neck of the frame was out of spec too
small while the seatpost was out of spec too big. Bad and unfortunate
combination.

Maybe the frame or the seatpost got ovalized and is no longer round.
That could happen from being dropped, having something dropped on it,
shipping damage, or other cause. But the bike mechanic should have
noticed that the seatpost was too tight and should not have forced it.

But the bottom line is that whoever put the seatpost in goofed big
time.

Some links on the web about stuck or slipping seatposts:
'Sheldon Brown on how to unstick a seatpost'
(http://www.sheldonbrown.com/stuck-seatposts.html)
'Surly on slipping seatposts' (http://www.surlybikes.com/spew4.html)

Whoever installed the seatpost must have violated rules I, II, and III
on Sheldon Brown's list of how not to install a seatpost.

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john_childs said:

*the bottom line is that whoever put the seatpost in goofed big time.*

yes,figure out who installed the post.most likely it was the
shop.unicycles from uni.com most always come with the seat and seat-post
out so the over all box is smaller makeing it cheaper to ship.

also,there is the chance that one of the employee's (or all or them)
tryed to ride it and it may have takin multiple hits on the floor before
you ever showed up.

a picture would be nice here.

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fleshflower said:

*
Dude, if I ever saw those jokers stick my uni into a vice I would yell
WWWAAAAAIIIITTTTTTT!!!!!

That was a definete sign that these cats were far from the litter
box.

A vice? What are they, crazy? I agree with "One on one" in fact, no
unicycle should ever be placed in a vice, no way! Sounds to me like a
little bit of anti-uni bicycle mechanic sabatogue!
*

The mechanic probably put it in a vice because he could not get it to
fit snug in the bike stand, and he would need it to in order to twist
the seat-post out. Still sounds like he might have been too forceful,
but that being said you should not be able to snap a frame with
manpower. The frame obviously had a defect.

fleshflower said:

*
Next time, dogbowl, order direct from those sweet people down in
georgia.*

Orderering a uni from your local bike shop that purchased the uni
wholesale through uni.com is the same as buying it directly from uni.com
but in most instances it is even better. I say this from experience as
we sell uni.com stuff at the bike shop I work at. Here are the
advantages of going through your local bike shop.
1. You are supporting you Local Bike Shop by purchasing through them.
LBS's are a dying breed and we should do what we can to make sure they
stay around.
2. You are still supporting uni.com because the LBS is going to purchase
the item wholesale from uni.com.
3. If something is wrong you do not have to deal with contacting
uni.com, shipping, picking up shipping expenses, etc. That is the
responsibility of the LBS. All you have to do is take the item to them
and let them handle the rest.
4. Some unis/frames might actually be cheaper to purchase through your
LBS because they might not follow the same mark-up margin that uni.com
follows. For instance, I sell the KH-24 for about $50 cheaper than
uni.com does.

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I have heard of them being hard to get in and out b4 but, sounds like
you got a bunk one.Well at least you got a replacement huh!
Ben

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zod said:

*
1. You are supporting you Local Bike Shop by purchasing through them.
LBS's are a dying breed and we should do what we can to make sure they
stay around.*

Hi Zod--I'm the one who started this thread and I totally agree with
you. No matter what happened to my Nimbus, or whose fault it was, I
would go back to the same bikeshop (LBS) in a second. They were totally
cool--in a way, the only drag is the time it takes for the uni to get
from Georgia to New York City. Maybe the frame was faulty, maybe someone
screwed up in the shop, these things happen and none of it is the result
of any bad intentions of parties involved. "[censored] Happens", as they
say...

And it is true what you said--the price is the same (or cheaper) through
a bike shop, and it is a whole lot safer for us unmechanically inclined
(guys like me who would not have the first idea how to tighten spokes).
I mean, I could see ordering direct if it was, like half price, but
since it's not, I have no regrets about going through my LBS despite
what happened to my Nimbus.

I also think Bike shops are really cool places.

Steve (dogbowl)

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Were there any tiny dings in the seat post tube? I once got a Sem XL
frame that had a ding in the tube down near the crown. I inserted the
seat post and it hit the area of the ding an stopped.
It wouldn't go any farther.

I did too, and sent it back

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john_childs said:

Whoever installed the seatpost must have violated rules I, II, and III
on Sheldon Brown's list of how not to install a seatpost.

Violated? On the contrary, I think he followed every rule of how NOT
to install a seatpost. :-)

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dogbowl said:

*
Hi Zod--I'm the one who started this thread and I totally agree with
you. No matter what happened to my Nimbus, or whose fault it was, I
would go back to the same bikeshop (LBS) in a second. They were
totally cool--in a way, the only drag is the time it takes for the uni
to get from Georgia to New York City. Maybe the frame was faulty,
maybe someone screwed up in the shop, these things happen and none of
it is the result of any bad intentions of parties involved. "[censored]
Happens", as they say...

I also think Bike shops are really cool places.
*

rock on Steve, thanks for supporting your LBS

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