24" trails

'trails' or 'trials'?

If you want to race in a 24" class, then it is probably a good idea to
get a 24. If you want to do 'trails' then a 24" is great. For 'trials'
I would recomend a 20".

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opps maybe i was wrong...if you meant*trails* then yes a 24 is the best

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If you are going to race seriously like at NAUCC, you need to go to the
USA(unicycle society of America)website for official rules and
regulations regarding racing. As for trails, I ride a 24 in. Torker DX
for Muni and it works fine.

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i have went to the NAUCC website and they said that if i raced in my age
group the biggest size tire you can have is a 24" and i think if
everyone had a 24" and i used me 20" it wouldn't be that fair. i meant
trails and i will be needing to keep up with bikes because thats what
all my friends would be riding only because they have no uni and they
aren't good at riding a uni anyways unless they practiced.

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keeping up with bikes on the trails requires alot of work...its not easy
at all.

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If you're going to be riding with bikes, you might want to consider a 29
or even a coker. 24" just doesn't have the circumference to keep up
with a MTB rocketing down a trail, and a larger-sized wheel will lessen
the pain.

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would a 29" hris holm cross country be good

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if they were using 26" tires and i was using a 26" how much hard would
it be for me to keep up

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also i would really like to get a 24" trails were i could do a little
bit of muni and jump on and off of rocks while i am out in the woulds.
the main thing is i just don't wont to be like a hour and a half or
two hours after them when i finish. i can beat most of the people that
i would be riding with on a mountion bike easy. the last time we went
only about four or five beat me and that is because a girl that i was
riding with fell asleep right beside of me and ran into me

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lucky_8 said:

if they were using 26" tires and i was using a 26" how much hard would
it be for me to keep up

pass them up hill, no show off keeping up downhill

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Incidentally, if you buy a 24" Muni you probably won't be able to race
with it, some 24" tyres are much larger than 24" across, and the rules
say no more than 24 1/3 " I believe. The tyres genreally used for
jumping rocks like the Duro and the Nokian Gazzalodi are more like 27"
across although the fit on a 24" rim.

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As long as the bikers arn't really hard-core you should be able to keep
up on a 24. I have embarassed bikers before cuz they have a hard time
getting away from me, especially on climbs, and I ride a 24. No one
likes to be shown up by a unicyclist.😄

It may be that a 26in could be a good option too... extra speed, but
you can still manouver better than on a 29in. Just remember that the
bigger the wheel, the less manoeverability and hill riding ability you
have.

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it's gonna be hard keeping up with mtb's no matter what size tyre you
use. bikes are much more efficient, even larger wheel diameter trials
bikes (fixed gear) don't keep up with 21 speed mtn bikes. i had
trouble keeping up with an 8 year old one a one speed huffy on the
trail because he could coast. if you are going to ride with bikers,
you're going to slow them down

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if you have the money and you want to ride with mtn bikers then yeah get
the KH 29er it will be better in the long run.

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lucky_8 said:

if everyone had a 24" and i used me 20" it wouldn't be that fair.

Why would it be unfair for you to choose to ride a smaller wheel? The
choice is yours. Obviously, you're at a major disadvantage on 20" in
everything except the slow races and maybe the Obstacle Course.

For riding with bikes, the KH 29er is an excellent choice. It's less
suited to all the jumping & stuff, but if you want speed that's your
ticket. You will not be able to keep up with bikes well on any size
unicycle, so the difference between 24 and 29 is not really that great
as far as that goes. The bikes have the gears, and they always cheat on
the downhills. 🙂

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johnfoss said:

Why would it be unfair for you to choose to ride a smaller wheel? 🙂

it's not really unfair it is that they would be getting 4 more inches
then me outof every revolution. it would be my choose so im going to
get a 24" that would be good for racing and a 24" for muni and i will
be good. i thionk that the 24" for muni and offroad would be better
because i would be jumping off of stuff

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lucky_8 said:

it's not really unfair it is that they would be getting 4 more inches
then me outof every revolution.

It's "fair" to say that you have to multiply that with pi. They'd be
getting almost 13 more inches out of every revolution!

Klaas Bil said:

lucky_8 said:

it's not really unfair it is that they would be getting 4 more inches
then me outof every revolution.

It's "fair" to say that you have to multiply that with pi. They'd be
getting almost 13 more inches out of every revolution!

oops i didn't think about pi

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