Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Posts: 572

I'm ready to replace my Koolback cord lacing with zip ties. These work better for me.

Does anyone have the zip tie lacing diagram that used to be on a pdf? The only one on the ER web site is for cord and Denton could not locate the zip tie diagram.

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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Florida
Posts: 35

I might have it in my Florida condo, but I won't be back there until October. Sorry.

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Registered: Nov 2007
Location: San Jose, CA
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You might try contacting Lonnie Morse (www.crazyguyonabike.com) as he uses zip ties on his koolback seat.

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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Omaha, Ne
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I would like to see the zip lock way too. I can never get mine laced tight enough

Mike

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Registered: Nov 2009
Location: boise idaho
Posts: 157

I don't have the official diagram but if you can imagine the ziptie makes a severe 180 degree bend around the seat stay wire you can figure it out.
The tie has to pull on the seat stay wire so it is spreading, ,tensioning, the mesh. So it has to go around the outside of the vertical pipes. Right? There's only one way to thread the tie through the hole in the pipe and through the seat mesh AND create tension. This hard bend is what causes the zipties to fail after lots of UV exposure. There are nice stainless steel zipties you can get at electronic shops. These will last forever but are hard to trim.

I now use vinly coated steel rope..

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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Posts: 572

Thanks everybody. I located a diagram, not the one I remember but it will suffice. Now, I see the existing holes will not line up, even if the seat back is shifted so that the first ones line up. I will have to make new holes.

I think.

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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Omaha, Ne
Posts: 86

Dick,

Could you post the diagram you found?

Thanks.
Mike

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