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06-07-22, 09:35 AM
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Take the post out and learn to ride standing. It's the only way that makes sense for you with this frame.
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You know, if you're gonna do it anyway, why even ask people who know much better than you whether you should do something?
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
I vote you keep the seat post and replace the frame with a larger one.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
I know a guy who bought an entire bike for a seatpost. It was a very nice seatpost, and he ended up restoring the whole bike. But still.
Freud would have fun with that story.
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
Freud would have fun with that story.
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Originally Posted by base2
It's not necessarily the height of the seat post (thought that is a big part of the lever) as much as it is the amount of post inside the frame to counter (be equal & opposite) the forces of you sitting on the post levering it around.
A foot between the saddle & seatpost clamp with 4 inches of post in the frame equals a 3:1 multiplication. Ergo 200 pounds of you equals 600 pounds trying to blow apart the seattube/top tube junction. Mentally multiply to that 2,3,4g transient loads from potholes etc...You'll see we are dealing with appreciably large forces on relatively thin walled tubing. An inch of post inside the frame with a 200 pound you a foot above is 2400 pounds of bending force. Well over a ton...& that's just a static value. A simple unexpected bump could easily make momentarily well over 10,000 pounds or more lever force trying to pry your bike apart.
Don't be stupid. Get a longer post that at least extends down to below the lower top tube weld.
A foot between the saddle & seatpost clamp with 4 inches of post in the frame equals a 3:1 multiplication. Ergo 200 pounds of you equals 600 pounds trying to blow apart the seattube/top tube junction. Mentally multiply to that 2,3,4g transient loads from potholes etc...You'll see we are dealing with appreciably large forces on relatively thin walled tubing. An inch of post inside the frame with a 200 pound you a foot above is 2400 pounds of bending force. Well over a ton...& that's just a static value. A simple unexpected bump could easily make momentarily well over 10,000 pounds or more lever force trying to pry your bike apart.
Don't be stupid. Get a longer post that at least extends down to below the lower top tube weld.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Multiply that 200 by 1.3.
It's a first-order lever.
The seat-post clamp is the fulcrum. Larry is the effort force (200 pounds @ 12 inches distance.) The bottom of the seat post inside the frame is the load (600 pounds @ 4 inches from the fulcrum).
First-order levers are force multipliers.
You might be thinking a second-order?
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Originally Posted by base2
Why?
It's a first-order lever.
The seat-post clamp is the fulcrum. Larry is the effort force (200 pounds @ 12 inches distance.) The bottom of the seat post inside the frame is the load (600 pounds @ 4 inches from the fulcrum).
First-order levers are force multipliers.
You might be thinking a second-order?
It's a first-order lever.
The seat-post clamp is the fulcrum. Larry is the effort force (200 pounds @ 12 inches distance.) The bottom of the seat post inside the frame is the load (600 pounds @ 4 inches from the fulcrum).
First-order levers are force multipliers.
You might be thinking a second-order?
Larry is 260 pounds.
06-07-22, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by base2
Why?
It's a first-order lever.
The seat-post clamp is the fulcrum. Larry is the effort force (200 pounds @ 12 inches distance.) The bottom of the seat post inside the frame is the load (600 pounds @ 4 inches from the fulcrum).
First-order levers are force multipliers.
You might be thinking a second-order?
It's a first-order lever.
The seat-post clamp is the fulcrum. Larry is the effort force (200 pounds @ 12 inches distance.) The bottom of the seat post inside the frame is the load (600 pounds @ 4 inches from the fulcrum).
First-order levers are force multipliers.
You might be thinking a second-order?
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
Larry is 260 pounds.
Originally Posted by genejockey
Because he weighs 260, not 200.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
You beat me to it.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
Cuz I'm a first-order smartass.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Because he weighs 260, not 200.
Originally Posted by livedarklions
Larry is 260 pounds.
Ok, you both are right!
While diligently working on my BFEngineering degree, I was turning the result in my head of running it as a second order to find the tension the seat/top tube junction was under & not just the load at the bottom of the seat post...I came back to say you may have been on to something. I see you were right about that, too!
Ok. It's time I realize my BFEngineer license is due to be revoked. Where do I turn it in at?
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I've seen a lot of bad ideas suggested on these forums but welding an extension on an alloy seatpost has to be right at the top. I mean we're talking pennies on CL for a proper one.
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Originally Posted by Steel Charlie
I've seen a lot of bad ideas suggested on these forums but welding an extension on an alloy seatpost has to be right at the top. I mean we're talking pennies on CL for a proper one.
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I'd be be worried about all of that weight out over the front wheel/axle. That bike might handle like crap, especially when climbing. OP probably thinks he has a brake dragging or a flat tire when going uphill. Come to think about it, didn't he have a thread about his disc rotors rubbing? I can see why.
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Originally Posted by seypat
I'd be be worried about all of that weight out over the front wheel/axle. That bike might handle like crap.
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Originally Posted by phughes
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Alas, one can be both.
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Originally Posted by seypat
I'd be be worried about all of that weight out over the front wheel/axle. That bike might handle like crap, especially when climbing. OP probably thinks he has a brake dragging or a flat tire when going uphill. Come to think about it, didn't he have a thread about his disc rotors rubbing? I can see why.
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Originally Posted by Steel Charlie
I've seen a lot of bad ideas suggested on these forums but welding an extension on an alloy seatpost has to be right at the top. I mean we're talking pennies on CL for a proper one.
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
Alas, one can be both.
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