Totally a very first world problem but looking for some thoughts:
I am converting a sprinter van with the almost standard bike garage under bed design. Unfortunately, I am a long lanky bugger (2m or 6’7) and my bike (with front wheel pulled off) still needs 110cm (43 inches) of clearing. If I build the bed that high there is not enough space to sit up in the bed any more, which is the wife’s minimum requirement (and clearly, I don’t want to argue with that).
I have considered cut outs, hydraulic lift options all sorts of things, but frankly (and it pains me to say that) it would probably be easiest and cheapest to pull the seat out whenever I stow the bike.
I am usually quite opposed to touching the post once I have dialed in that perfect height, other than the odd air travel for races. Bike is a QR PRfive.
If I assume a couple of family trips per year in which I ride the bike every day, so load and unload almost every day on those trips = pulling and re-inserting the post roughly 30-50 times per year. Will that do any damage? I’ll use a torque wrench of course, take good care all the good stuff. Am I overthinking this / do you see any issues with that? I’d hate to have the seat break, slip on me on race day and have you guys pass me with a “could have told you that was gonna happen” type expression on you faces.
I am converting a sprinter van with the almost standard bike garage under bed design. Unfortunately, I am a long lanky bugger (2m or 6’7) and my bike (with front wheel pulled off) still needs 110cm (43 inches) of clearing. If I build the bed that high there is not enough space to sit up in the bed any more, which is the wife’s minimum requirement (and clearly, I don’t want to argue with that).
I have considered cut outs, hydraulic lift options all sorts of things, but frankly (and it pains me to say that) it would probably be easiest and cheapest to pull the seat out whenever I stow the bike.
I am usually quite opposed to touching the post once I have dialed in that perfect height, other than the odd air travel for races. Bike is a QR PRfive.
If I assume a couple of family trips per year in which I ride the bike every day, so load and unload almost every day on those trips = pulling and re-inserting the post roughly 30-50 times per year. Will that do any damage? I’ll use a torque wrench of course, take good care all the good stuff. Am I overthinking this / do you see any issues with that? I’d hate to have the seat break, slip on me on race day and have you guys pass me with a “could have told you that was gonna happen” type expression on you faces.