"jim beam" wrote in message
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JG wrote:

Uh, you mean the compression from the rider sitting on it!?!? That
doesn't make it stable because actually it's under torque...

er, that's bending, not torque. and the degree depends on rider position.
any idea how seat rail positioning evolved?

As you PEDAL you put rotational loads on the saddle back and forth. You do
understand that don't you?

Face it, neither you nor Jobst are competent to state the risk rate of
one or two bolt designs.

really? personally, i feel pretty well qualified to differentiate between
torque and bending.

And you demonstrated that exactly when?

Probably nobody is, as it would require well
controlled actuary data sets with enough incidents to be meaningful.

nobody is qualified to assess risk of one design over another? that's
like saying that the only way you can assess whether a plane is airworthy
is to crash it so you have "enough incidents to be meaningful"!!!

I see.... You don't have a clue about aircraft design either.