nested props

Nice work and good idea! I've been meaning to pick up
materials for some sandwich boards, these would be
useful to.

A few Q's:

What is the width of the widest prop?

How much material did it take?

Can you post a pic of the end view?

Thanks,

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They look great. I've been playing around with suicide
mounts with the unicycle standing 'freely'. It's opened up a
whole new world of running suicide and reverse suicide
mounts. I had been propping up the uni in pebble gardens and
things like that but then I thought of propping it up on top
of a sandwich board, running up, jumping off another one
(sitting perpendicular to it), and landing on the unicycle.
This worked out really well and was a lot of fun. I'm
planning on doing more of these mounts so the other day I
made myself a sandwich board to suit.

Sandwich board - side panels -----> Suicide mount
helper thingy!

It also allows you to prop up the unicycle tilted backwards
to make running suicide mounts easier. Tony and I have been
jumping off boulders onto the unicycle and all sorts of
things. To do this you just need to wedge something behind
the tyre and between the top of the tyre and the crown of
the frame. The photos show all of this.

There are some photos of fun applications 'here.'
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Man, Andrew! Your cranks are bent!! IS that a picture
wierdo, or are those really that bad?

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I think you should paint pictures of little Russian girls on them...
[image: "]http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/mikec/image5.jpg]

Just a thought

Daniel

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duaner said:

*While waiting for my new Bedford muni to arrive, I made
some new props.

I made 2 sets of 5 sizes, 6", 7.5", 9", 10.5" and
12" high.

I'm pretty happy with how they turned out; each size nests
insided the next larger size.

The top pic: left - a set of 5 inverted to show the
nesting rite - a set of 5 nested foreground - a 3'
level (size reference) The bottom pic: top left - one
set of 5 inverted to show the nesting rest - the other
set of 5 props *

Nice job Duane, and glad to hear you ordered a MUni. I look
forward to riding with you again when I am able.

Scott

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UniBrier said:

*What is the width of the widest prop? How much material
did it take? Can you post a pic of the end view? *

The largets is 12" high and 22" wide.

Dunno just how much material, I was working from
construction scrap.

End pic of the prop is below.

Other notes...

I used 3/4" plywood and a 2x4

The side slope is 2vertical:1horizontal. I.e. 63.435
degrees.

I targetted the top surface to be about the width of a
sandwich board, so I trimmed the top corners of the 2x4 to
make the top surfcae 3" wide. This also gave the side slopes
a little better seat against the 2x4.

For nesting purposes, the props had to each be AT LEAST 1
1/2" wider than the next smaller prop (twice the plywood
thickness). I added a 1/4 inch to this, so made each prop 1
3/4" wider than the next. The props came out ALMOST too
snug of a fit.

I used deck screws (#8), and drilled a pilot hole for each
screw as I assembled the prop (having two drills helped
here: one with drill bit, other with screw driver bit) I
drilled the pilot holes to
- prevent the plywood from splitting
- help assure the screws went in reasonable straight

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