Most folks don't live their lives carrying around 40-50 inventions cluttering their minds, but that's what happens if yu live long enough.
For me it started at an early age, and continues to this day.
The latest came about by crashing my unicycle doing my daily ride around the block.
I've been riding a unicycle since the sixth grade, and was somewhat adept at it, many years ago.
These days at sixty years old though, I'm way more moderate, no tricks, just exercise, once around the block daily. This after a twenty year hiatus from riding them period.
Turning a unicycle's accomplished by a twisting motion of your hips, using the inertia of upper torso, this motion's transferred to the unicycle via the seat and pedals, turning sharply requires flailing arms to maintain your balance point.
I had been playing with seat height a bit, and failed to clamp it back down securely enough. This resulted in the post rotating when I tried to turn a corner, throwing my steering alignment outta true, and me crashing, though without losing my feet.
It was while cursing myself for not tightening the seat post down sufficiently, that it struck me.
Why does any bicycle or unicycle seat post need to be round or rotatable period?
Who wants a seat even capable of not being in perfect alignment as a matter of design?
A triangular, rectangular or even pentagular seat post, being examples.
But as a matter of cost saving efficiency, modifying my existing round seat post and frame receptacle's the easiest means of solving rotating seat syndrome, and providing sprung seat post suspension, so it doesn't ride like a hard tail HD chopper anymore.
Two milled 1/4 inch slots, about 3 inches long, opposite each other, vertically in the frame's seat post receptor. A simple 1/4 inch two inch long pin through the seat post itself, and exiting through the frame receptor slots, guarantees perfect seat alignment with the frame, and is ideally suited for a spring and washer suspension seat post.
I'll post pics of my progress in this latest madness afflicting me.
Maybe a few others as well.
Jemco
For me it started at an early age, and continues to this day.
The latest came about by crashing my unicycle doing my daily ride around the block.
I've been riding a unicycle since the sixth grade, and was somewhat adept at it, many years ago.
These days at sixty years old though, I'm way more moderate, no tricks, just exercise, once around the block daily. This after a twenty year hiatus from riding them period.
Turning a unicycle's accomplished by a twisting motion of your hips, using the inertia of upper torso, this motion's transferred to the unicycle via the seat and pedals, turning sharply requires flailing arms to maintain your balance point.
I had been playing with seat height a bit, and failed to clamp it back down securely enough. This resulted in the post rotating when I tried to turn a corner, throwing my steering alignment outta true, and me crashing, though without losing my feet.
It was while cursing myself for not tightening the seat post down sufficiently, that it struck me.
Why does any bicycle or unicycle seat post need to be round or rotatable period?
Who wants a seat even capable of not being in perfect alignment as a matter of design?
A triangular, rectangular or even pentagular seat post, being examples.
But as a matter of cost saving efficiency, modifying my existing round seat post and frame receptacle's the easiest means of solving rotating seat syndrome, and providing sprung seat post suspension, so it doesn't ride like a hard tail HD chopper anymore.
Two milled 1/4 inch slots, about 3 inches long, opposite each other, vertically in the frame's seat post receptor. A simple 1/4 inch two inch long pin through the seat post itself, and exiting through the frame receptor slots, guarantees perfect seat alignment with the frame, and is ideally suited for a spring and washer suspension seat post.
I'll post pics of my progress in this latest madness afflicting me.
Maybe a few others as well.
Jemco
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