Hand Injury

[Chexjc]

Yea so for some reason one of the 4 bolts holding my seat on is sharp and the others are rounded..but i fell and tried to catch the unicycle and this happened...



has this happened to anyone else before?

[habbywall]

Yeah, it used to happen to me when freemounting, It sucks, but I never had it that bad.
Now I wear gloves.

[john_childs]

Yes it's an injury that can happen.

One solution is to put acorn nuts over all of the bolts under the seat.

[Chexjc]

Originally Posted by john_childs

Yes it's an injury that can happen.

One solution is to put acorn nuts over all of the bolts under the seat.

really?

[podzol]

yep really.

[Chexjc]

yea those are over 3 of 4..for some reason one of them has a sharp edge. I thought you were refering to acorn "nuts"..that squirrels eat..my bad hahah

[john_childs]

Originally Posted by Chexjc

yea those are over 3 of 4..for some reason one of them has a sharp edge.

You may have popped the top off the acorn nut. You can only screw them on so far till the end of the bolt pops the end off the acorn nut. When that happens you get a sharp edge of broken metal.

You need to put enough washers under the acorn nut so that the end of the bolt won't pop the top off the acorn nut when it is tightened down.

The KH seats don't come with any washers under the acorn nuts so lots of people are popping the tops of the nuts. Put 1 or 2 or 3 washers under the acorn nuts and you won't have that problem.

[Chexjc]

now that i look at it, it looks very well like thats what happened. It wasn't me that assembled the unicycle it was the bike shop.

[dan de man]

Originally Posted by Chexjc

Yea so for some reason one of the 4 bolts holding my seat on is sharp and the others are rounded..but i fell and tried to catch the unicycle and this happened...



has this happened to anyone else before?

happens to me all the time near mymiddles fingers "quick" when i unispin ,i know have a calluos

[john_childs]

Originally Posted by dan de man

happens to me all the time near mymiddles fingers "quick" when i unispin ,i know have a calluos

Thanks for including that picture in your quote. I very quickly conditioned myself to to close my eyes when clicking on this thread and then using the scroll wheel to scroll down to the bottom of the page so I could avoid looking at that picture again. Now I scroll to the bottom, and what do I see? That picture again.

Now someone is going to make that picture their avatar just to spite me.

[iridemymuni]

Originally Posted by john_childs

The KH seats don't come with any washers under the acorn nuts so lots of people are popping the tops of the nuts.

both of mf KH seats (the 07 gel street and older style) both came with washers on them. the 07 having spring washers.

[Chexjc]

haha here's another one just for you my friend.



yea i know i look like an @$$ but its funny

[iridemymuni]

hahaha

i though you were a chick up until this thread (sorry)

nice injury

[tomtrevor]

a few weeks ago i was jumping up pallets sif, i got my fingernail caught underneth a bolt and it almost ripped my nail off. luckily it didnt, it did bleed a little though.

[john_childs]

Originally Posted by iridemymuni

both of mf KH seats (the 07 gel street and older style) both came with washers on them. the 07 having spring washers.

I should have phrased that better. My KH seat also came with a washer under each acorn nut. The problem being that the bolts are long so you need more than one washer under the acorn nuts. So you have to add washers.

In any event, it's a problem that many people discover through experience. I pooped the top off a few acorn nuts on my Miyata saddle and then my carbon fiber saddles. Eventually you get smart enough to put a stack of washers under the acorn nuts right from the start.