seat post height?

[scott250]

OK, so why is it the OS seems to rock them to the heighest point posible + NS have em slamed to the floor ?

I've always ran mine between 2 to 4" at most - I ran mine a little higher in the mid school from barspins(nipping seat) and nofooter manuals.  Its about 2" for now - I don't bother much with barspins these days+ the newschoolers kind of pin one leg to do bars  .

Have all oldschoolers damaged the knees so much they cannot run a seat any lower  ?

[HEYWOOD BMX]

  No idea although I`ve always ran my post slammed -maybe `cos I`m a bit taller than Spen

[scott250]

Most of my seatposts in the 80s were cut up old bars - I made a layback from my old vbars, then a straight one from some bent CWs.  I went right off CWs and laybacks bitd though still make me cringe today    think I'm anti-gimick or something 

[Bettyswallocks]

Another bit taller than Spen so its always been a low seat for me, have a bit of a pet hate for flagpole height seats... 

[Bigplinky]

High seatposts from the 80's blame Tim March and The Patterson Brothers (and just about any Other Pro over 6"). Only just learning to run mine low now 

[meticulous]

mines where its comfy for seated cruising, which is all i can do, so its set about 6in, same height bitd tbh.....

looks fookin un-comfy to me sat on the back wheel pedaling....

[adobe wan kanobe]

Fashion. Just like the wide bars and the narrow jeans.

Seat height level with your bars when turned 90°.
Deviate too far from that, you're playing with yourself.

[scott250]

High seatposts from the 80's blame Tim March and The Patterson Brothers (and just about any Other Pro over 6"). Only just learning to run mine low now 

Must have been the odd time when they got snagged in it & slamed 

[scott250]

Fashion. Just like the wide bars and the narrow jeans.

Seat height level with your bars when turned 90°.
Deviate too far from that, you're playing with yourself.

Ahh, but most of us had tight jeans in 84 + masive bars - remember those GT xt large ones, haha- mate of mine had some.  If I was younger I would wear those tight jeans - never get chain snag with em - but they do look daft as, haha.

[20to26]

...always had my seat at the same height as the bars when turned 90 degrees - and seat positioned a couple mm's away from the grip end so you could hold em together for balance tricks.

Set lower for racing tho.

[stidds]

Bitd we had high seatposts for racing so we could sit down entering a corner, not done that way these days as everyone uses the same (read fastest) line.

[Bettyswallocks]

Fashion. Just like the wide bars and the narrow jeans.

Seat height level with your bars when turned 90°.
Deviate too far from that, you're playing with yourself.

Real imaginative reply... 

I'll stick with my low seat and yes i do partake in the odd 5 knuckle shuffle so you got that part right... 

[christhejob]

I can't physically pedal a 20" bmx anymore with a seatpost below 6". 
I am 6foot3 and my Doctor told me to lay off BMXing 21 years ago due to "ballerina's knee!"

[scott250]

Bitd we had high seatposts for racing so we could sit down entering a corner, not done that way these days as everyone uses the same (read fastest) line.

Really? I've never sat down while riding a BMX much, if ever on trails or tracks - only for nofooted manuals and going backwards, oww and nofooted endos bitd, haha.

Then again, I never raced ever.