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What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal

Rail
8 (33.3%)
Pivotal
16 (66.7%)

Total Members Voted: 23

Voting closed: April 21, 2014, 09:01:48 PM

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Offline Keneken

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2014, 12:04:19 PM »
Have you tried the deep one? Thought that was big while I ran it
''let me tell ya something i did a front n rear wheel hang on the cloping on the slide of the spine, now i stick to street!''

''do you freestyle?''

However serious you take it general public sees us as just dicking about on 'kids' bikes, some people could do to remember that and smile a little.

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2014, 03:57:10 PM »
how long has the 99er been discontinued?, just out of interest, it was hugely popular

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2014, 04:39:12 PM »
I would say at least 10 years... it was highly popular around 2000

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2014, 09:55:43 PM »
TJ you can buy me a new seat post, otherwise I will keep my old clunker..

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2014, 04:25:42 AM »
Have you tried the deep one? Thought that was big while I ran it

It's small and my fingers jam into the bottom of the seat. Also it breaks easily.

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2014, 01:25:59 PM »
khe watanabe, tried a few pivotal seats and was a no go for me

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2014, 11:51:44 PM »
I run khe wannabe with backwards odyssey intac post to bring the seat closer to the bars

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2014, 09:10:53 PM »
I'm on the infinity (flatland) pivotal seat. I really like it since trimming the nose down. That really freed up some space on crackpackers. I also run the seat angle as flat as possible. This helps with room back behind the seat for cliffhangers and feels very comfortable to grip in the steamroller position. This also helps save weight and keep your seat from dragging the floor bc you can then trim your post and run it lower (while letting you still fit in the pocket back behind the seat).



What's also really cool is using the animal wedge post with the pivotal system to eliminate the seat clamp. You can see here the seat is in place (after 2 sessions now) without using the integrated seat clamp. I will be grinding the whole clamp off since every frame I crack is right in this area (and possibly from the seatclamp's pressure on the area). If you look closely you can see where the frame is beginning to crack.

« Last Edit: April 19, 2014, 09:15:18 PM by metalbmxer »
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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2014, 10:56:31 PM »
riding a deep pivotal seat ( with the back bit u grab cut down) . was on a 99er for years and years but once I changed and now cant go back as it feels so heavy. luv the idea of the animal wedge post but don't think I could run a real low  post height. I've had nothing but sh*t with my intergrated post bolts on my intrikat snapping.
« Last Edit: April 19, 2014, 11:06:35 PM by TRUTH1970 »

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2014, 05:49:01 AM »
riding a deep pivotal seat ( with the back bit u grab cut down) . was on a 99er for years and years but once I changed and now cant go back as it feels so heavy. luv the idea of the animal wedge post but don't think I could run a real low  post height. I've had nothing but sh*t with my intergrated post bolts on my intrikat snapping.

Huh, interesting. Does anyone make a laid back pivotal post? One other reason I never went with them is because you only really get one seat position and that's it.

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #25 on: April 20, 2014, 10:59:07 AM »
Eclat do...or did..
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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #26 on: April 20, 2014, 02:05:18 PM »


Huh, interesting. Does anyone make a laid back pivotal post? One other reason I never went with them is because you only really get one seat position and that's it.


That's the only thing I don't like about pivotal posts, think there's 3 with offset you can get now (eclat/subrosa/odyssey) i did end up cutting some of my seat away too though.

''let me tell ya something i did a front n rear wheel hang on the cloping on the slide of the spine, now i stick to street!''

''do you freestyle?''

However serious you take it general public sees us as just dicking about on 'kids' bikes, some people could do to remember that and smile a little.

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Re: What seat are you riding: Rail or Pivotal
« Reply #27 on: April 24, 2014, 07:19:53 PM »
Tripod is greater than all.