{"id":2716,"date":"2022-07-20T16:32:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:51:26","slug":"bikes-seat-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/2022\/07\/20\/bikes-seat-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes: Seat Failure?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took my old city bike for a ride. It&#8217;s my brother&#8217;s old Trek 330 from the 1980s that I converted to a single-speed with a 2-speed Sturmey Archer kick-back shift rear hub, and mustache handlebars. It&#8217;s a cool old vintage bike that&#8217;s fun to ride.<\/p>\n<p>About 14 miles into the ride, just after I turned around to head home, the seat suddenly rotated back as if the bolt were loose. I stopped and got out my tools, ready to tighten it. But it wasn&#8217;t loose. One of the seat rails had sheared or snapped off! It&#8217;s made of metal! I&#8217;m not a big heavy guy so I have no idea how this happened. In over 40 years of riding and working on bikes I&#8217;ve never seen a failure like this. Then a couple of miles later the other rail broke.<\/p>\n<p>Pics or it didn&#8217;t happen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165714.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2718\" src=\"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165714.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2304\" height=\"4096\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165714.jpg 2304w, http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165714-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165714-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165714-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2304px) 100vw, 2304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165723.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2717\" src=\"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4096\" height=\"2304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165723.jpg 4096w, http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165723-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165723-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220719_165723-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4096px) 100vw, 4096px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The front of the seat rail still fit into the nose of the seat, but it was loose and fell off a few times on the way home, making me stop to go back and pick it up. So for the last 10 or so miles I got a new kind of bike exercise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slide forward and ride on the front nose of the seat (ouch!)<\/li>\n<li>To pedal, legs now push down and back, for a new kind of muscle workout<\/li>\n<li>Pinch the seat nose between your butt cheeks while pedaling, to keep it in place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What a weird failure. Of course, I made it home and swapped the seat for an old spare I had in one of my bike parts bins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took my old city bike for a ride. It&#8217;s my brother&#8217;s old Trek 330 from the 1980s that I converted to a single-speed with a 2-speed Sturmey Archer kick-back shift rear hub, and mustache handlebars. It&#8217;s a cool old vintage bike that&#8217;s fun to ride. About 14 miles into the ride, just after &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/2022\/07\/20\/bikes-seat-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bikes: Seat Failure?!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}