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syrupandme said:

*I have a pashley unicycle and i dont know whther it is up to
date???
should i get a new one????
ME😕 *

Unless it's broken, just pump up the tire, and off you go. No need to
get a new one.

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I wonder if it's about time Pashley upgraded their unicycle? It is out
of date. They were ahead of their time- being one of the first mass
production purpose built MUnis. In fact, I think they own the name
Muni.

I've still got my old 26" Pashley 😎

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GizmoDuck said:

*I wonder if it's about time Pashley upgraded their unicycle? It is
out of date. They were ahead of their time- being one of the first
mass production purpose built MUnis. In fact, I think they own the
name Muni.

I've still got my old 26" Pashley 😎 *

Heh, I still do too, Ken, but the only original pieces left are the
frame and bearing holders, and the frame has been cut down twice...

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I've still got a 20" Pashley 'Muni' that I recently retrieved from the
school I left a year ago. A friend I sold it to left it there so I
decided to take charge of a rescue attempt. I was amazed to find it was
still there! Its marked as an 'absolute' on the frame, but I recognise
the style & the lollipop bearing housings. I'm going to put a hookworm
on it and use it to teach people on I think. I had to replace the hub &
cranks just after purchase (they got knackered pretty quick).

Loose.

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My dad has one of those 20" 'Absolute' unis, I always wondered whether
it was actually a Pashley. It dates from around 1996.

Pashley should definitely bring out a new uni, they make extremely good
quality bikes and I'm sure they could apply the same expertise to
unicycles without too much problem.
I for one would love to own a Pashley 36er!

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My first uni was a 20 inch pashley UMX in about 1987. I later bought a
Pashley 26 inch MUni, and have had much fun on it.

However, although you can have great fun on a Pashley, they are heavy
and outdated. Knowing what I now know, I wouldn't choose a Pashley
MUni.

But that doesn't mean you "should" upgrade. You can have miles of fun
on it, and upgrade when you know what style of riding suits you, and
exactly what spec. you want.

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Mikefule said:

*My first uni was a 20 inch pashley UMX in about 1987. *

Pashley had a unicycle called UMX? I wonder where they got that name? I
originally used it in the USA Newsletter in an article from 1981 for
Unicycle Motocross.

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johnfoss said:

*Pashley had a unicycle called UMX? *

I remember the advert and the purchase decision very well. At the time,
Pashley made a standard 20 and 24 with normal road bicycle tyres, and
the 20 inch "UMX" (as in Unicycle Moto X). The advertising leaflet went
on about the standard 20 and the larger 24 and then said, "...or go
uniciycle yomping on the UMX...".

Pashley are fairly local (Staffordshire, I think) and were retailing
through Halfords a bicycle and motor spares chain store.

Yomping was a fashionable word in the early 1980s, having been used a
lot by the media during the Falklands conflict of 1982 to describe the
Marines marching cross country.

The UMX itself was a dreadful machine by modern standards. I still have
the original frame, wheel, and cranks. The alleged seat was replaced
with a seat from a child's bicyccle. The pedals were upgraded.

The bearing holders were worse than the modern Pashley ones, each being
held into the fork with two self-tapping screws.

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