I was driving to work last Monday, when I passed a yard sale and this chrome unicycle caught my eye. $7, and the price was right. "Can you ride it?" they asked, "I can practice," I said. A week later, and I can ride my 24" Savage (like new condition)across the room, and I'm learning how to turn. I slapped a knobby tire (24"x2.1"😉 on it, and it fits just fine. Can't wait to ride outside. I just thought I'd share, as I live on the island of Tutuila, in American Samoa (look it up on a map) and I'm pretty sure I'm the only one around here who can't stop thinking about unicycling!
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tennisgh22's Profile: unicyclist.com5771Open ↗ View this thread: unicyclist.com32445Open ↗
Great! Good luck. No matter how much pressure people on this forum (including me) give you, don't feel obligated to buy a new unicycle until you're breaking this one. About the only thing that you may urgently want to improve is the seat. I learned most of my muni skills and the basic trials ones (I got up to a 16" hop and a 4' gap before I bent the cranks beyond ridability on 75 2' drops) on a stock 20" united (main- cap) with a miyata saddle, a 20x2.125 knobby, and some $5 pinned pedals (lasted me 2 years before the left one shattered on a failed hop onto a cement ledge. That didn't stop me. I rode 2 blocks to the next spot, some one-footed, and kept riding. There were 7 bearings left in the thing by the time I got home).
Have fun and happy trails.
-- gerblefranklin - Trials Unicyclist
Don't you think it's a cruel irony that acting like a G.I. Joe in the army can get you a Medal, while playing with one can get you thrown out? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerblefranklin's Profile: unicyclist.com4295Open ↗ View this thread: unicyclist.com32445Open ↗
