Quote from Bud_Bent on May 24th, 2014, 6:53pm:I've purchased a Profile aero bar on ebay. Hopefully, it's the right one, and will work as my headrest.
Moving quickly! :^) If the forearm support plates are plastic, it should be fine. Hope they aren't the metal ones. Look at the photos of the headrests at
http://synthetictransport.com/railgun/ .
The paint on the h.r. frame tends to make it stick in the support tubes so you might need a little bit of effort to extract the frame from the seat the first few times. You can cut the ends of the h.r. frame tubes to fit where you want, though there is normally enough stiction from the paint to hold the position you want.
I've been meaning to do a page on making headrests but haven't done it yet. You can use a hair dryer or heat gun to (carefully) bend the CPVC tubes if you want to curve them upward (as in one of the photos), as opposed to using a long post as in one of the others. You can grind the end of the CPVC post to get it to fit the shape of the crosspiece on the frame to make it more solid. Or you can get some CPVS fittings and a short length of CPVC tubing and make whatever shape you want. I have customers doing combinations of the above.
For a pretty cushy headrest you can go down to Target or such and pick up a 2-pack of those microfiber pocket wax applicator pads in the auto section and slip one over the top of the headrest.
Quote:I'm still debating how to attach the sprint braces. Has anyone tried just using an expanding rubber nut in the end of the sprint brace tube?
Are you talking about the seat stays? If so, it should just mount like a std carbon seat, though I prefer to use industrial Velcro between the seat and the tube mounts instead of the std rubber spacers.