Aero seat post mounting device

摘要

An aerodynamically shaped seat post fabricated from carbon fiber is mountable to a seat tube by placing left and right bushings within the hollow center of the seat post. These bushings are accessible and engageable to left and right bolts when the desired height of the seat post is reached. In particular, the left and right bolts are fed through left and right holes formed in the seat tube. The seat post has left and right elongate slots which provide access to the bushings, and more particularly, to the threaded holes of the bushings so that the left and right bolts may engage those threaded holes and clamp the left and right sidewalls of the seat post and the left and right sidewalls of the seat tube together, respectively. This seat post mount eliminates stress concentrations to the seat post. Moreover, the seat post is not clamped down with opposed forces placed on the left and right sidewalls of the seat post.

主权项

1. A bicycle having a seat post, the bicycle comprising:
the seat post having a hollow center along a height of the seat post wherein the hollow center defines an inner perimeter, a first opening formed in a first sidewall of the seat post; a seat tube having a hollow center defining an inner perimeter sized and configured to match the outer perimeter of the seat post so that the seat post may telescope into and out of the hollow center of the seat tube, the seat tube defining a first side wall; a first bushing disposable in the hollow center of the seat post, the first bushing having an outer perimeter matching the inner perimeter of the seat post; a first fastener inserted into the first opening formed in the seat post for clamping the first bushing, the first sidewall of the seat post and the first sidewall of the seat tube together to fix a vertical height of the seat post to the seat tube.