Attaching a rail adapter...?

[burjzyntski]

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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[ntappin]

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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[madmattunipro]

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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[burjzyntski]

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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