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  1. It would be cool to see a wheel designed and cut out like you see the
    boys at American chopper build .Spinners ,with customs patterns fat
    slick wide as possible ,.
    Just for poser riding ,you know Bikz day's ,Sturgess.Lots of Chrome
    ,Pimp my ride.Flames,paint,American Hot rod style
    What a hit that would be. .Leathers ,party.

    Haha, crazy idea

    Motorcross

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  2. Wal-mart sells bike spinners.

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  3. munipsycho said:

    *Why not a disk brake while we're at it? *

    some does have a disk break on their uni

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  4. keaner said:

    *It would be cool to see a wheel designed and cut out like you see
    the boys at American chopper build .Spinners ,with customs patterns
    fat slick wide as possible ,.
    Just for poser riding ,you know Bikz day's ,Sturgess.Lots of Chrome
    ,Pimp my ride.Flames,paint,American Hot rod style
    What a hit that would be. .Leathers ,party.

    Haha, crazy idea

    Motorcross *

    somthing like this! but on a uni

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  5. while we on the subject of fancy wheels check this bmx hub out

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  6. now that is one sexy hub. any idea bout the cost?

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  7. keaner said:

    *Spinners*


    On a unicycle? Ouch! 🙂

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  8. wal-mart has ones that go inside the spokes. you have to thread them in.
    seager bought some for his 20 inch. woulda been better if his rim didn't
    have assloads of spokes(48 i think) and the little clamps to keep if
    from moving on the hub were able to be tightened tight enough. also i
    think due to the massive amount of spokes/no room for fingers/tools to
    tighten things up.

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  9. That fancy hub posted by smc02 looks cool, but probably wouldn't be much
    good on a unicycle. Radially spoked wheels are no good for a wheel that
    has to transmit torque from the hub (so it's really only useful for the
    front wheel of a bike, and even then only if not using any form of hub
    braking).

    There are similar hub designs around that look unusual, and still have
    the advantage of using straight spokes (less chance of spoke breakage -
    they usually break at the hooked end of a conventional spoke where it
    goes through the hub flange), but are laced in a suitable way for a
    drive wheel, so could be used on a unicycle. Advocates of these hubs
    claim that fewer spokes can be used because of the stronger spoke/hub
    interface, but I suspect that rim stability is probably more of a
    problem on a unicycle (with the higher lateral forces than on a bike
    wheel) than spoke breakage. A unicycle hub built this way would look
    pretty cool I think.

    There are various designs around, but here's a picture of one I found
    quickly:

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  10. Yes, that radial BMX hub was really cool. It would make a great B.C.
    wheel hub! But yes, you don't want radial spokes on a regular unicycle
    unless, like this thread started out, it's just for looks and not for
    hard riding.

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  11. Thinking about it, I seem to remember seeing a unicycle wheel built with
    a hub specially drilled to take twice the normal number of spokes
    (presumably 72 or 96 spokes then). That looked cool, and as far as I
    can remember it was radially spoked - perhaps with so many spokes it was
    rigid enough. I think it may have been one of Darren Bedford's (?)

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  12. I know Andy Schwarz has a sweet looking radial spoked 20" freestyle uni.
    Don't know the number but I think its' 48 spokes? It looks awesome but
    he breaks so many spokes it's not even funny. Sometimes he breaks a
    couple at a time! And it's seldom that he rides it with all the spokes
    on cause it always seems to be missing at least one. So ya they are
    great for looks but doing any tricks is not good.

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  13. Having the nipples attached to the hub rather than the rim has the
    advantage of keeping more of the mass near the centre. This is done on
    some performance manual wheelchairs.

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  14. [image: http://image09.webshots.com/9/7/4/30/101270430LdXNJj_ph.jpg]
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  15. OMG !:eek: :eek:

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  16. I never thought I'd see a bling-bling uni! Now if that doesn't get the
    babes running your way, I don't know what will...

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  17. <drools> damn... <drools>

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  18. loosejello's pic

    ooh [censored]... loosejello nice rim lol

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  19. munipsycho said:

    *Why not a disk brake while we're at it? *

    [image:
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  20. Loosejello, only one of the sics pix displays. Are the other ones as
    drool-provoking?

    Klaas Bil

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