Actually, it was an injury to the seatpost itself...sorry to mislead
you. 🙂
I was teaching one of the kids at club tonight to hop and
suddenly my seat handle (Miyata) pulled up very easily.
Here's a picture what happened. Upon inspection, it didn't
break along the main weld but did seem to start at the spot
weld on the top of the post (as shown). Once it started, it
just ripped through the diameter of the post. I had an extra
post in my toolbox so I was able to change it out and
continue riding the rest of the night.
Another thing we noticed though, the broken seat post seems
to have been factory TIG welded but the replacement post
that I installed was stick welded. Not sure why the
difference.
I guess we'll just chalk another broken part up to
experience.
Bruce
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