Camelbike, with regular front suspension, the seat

measuring the inseam length, to roughly determine the placement of the seat,
and see if the angle of the drive part is ok.
camel-bike

i like carparts. a standard exhaust clamp will do the job.
it gets a bit more complicated for me because the tube crossection is not circular.
so the clamp has to be made more narrow (see arrow).
camel-bike

seat fits nicely on the new camelbike, thank you Lucio for this carbon seat!
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as this is a cheap bicycle without rear suspension,
some shock absorbtion in the back would be nice. why not use the saddle..
an other reason to put some more material between the saddlepin and my spine,
is in case of a car driving in the back of my bicycle, the saddlepin would not go in my back.
the seat should not wiggle from side to side though, so i will have to look in to that.
camel-bike

i drilled some holes in the seat,
and found out i have to reinforce the holes i drilled in the seat,
because the seat is just a layer carbon on the outside, and i suspect carton honeycomb inside.
this means you cant just bolt the seat to a steel frame, it has to be locally reinforced first.
for this purpose, i think i will buy a glue gun, and fill out the holes with melted plastic, redrill through the plastic.

2010-10-23

 
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