gpickett00 said:*is it as hard as catwalking on a bike? or is it more like the feeling
of riding a unicycle. i think it would be cool to try out *
gpickett00,
I'm not sure what catwalking is. It does not ride like a unicycle at
all, actually. Very limited similarities, anyway. It's much more like
trying to ride a really long wheelie on a bicycle. Part of this is
because it has a freewheel hub on it, so you pedal forward to go
forward, but have to feather in rear brake to keep from flipping over
backward. Steering is also much different-- you don't just twist the
saddle with your hips and turn. It turns more like a regular uni in a
spin-- you lean the bike into the turn while leaning your body away
from the turn. I don't know what all makes it work, but it's been a
long time in learning. I rode with a front wheel on there for a long
time, trying to do the same stuff. The no-training-wheel version was
just good incentive to keep it up longer. Boy did it work! I suppose
it's lighter now, too, and the wind doesn't blow the front end around
like it did with the front wheel on there.
fluffinator007 said:*I was going to make one of these. Is all that you did chop off the
front wheel? Or are there other adjustments/additions/reductions? *
fluffinator,
First I just took off the front wheel, and still had the fork sticking
down. While it looked cool that way, it didn't seem very safe. So I
hack-sawed the fork off right near the frame.
theamazingmolio said:*I've been planning to make one for a while.
I was hoping to find a BMX, or something else without a derallier gear
system, take the front wheel off, butcher the freewheeling hub so that
it doesn't anymore, and see what happens.
The first time I saw anything like this was on a TV advert for a
building society or something a little while back.
A unicycle turns heads, but once they've seen one they've seen em all,
but this just looks really surreal.
Any comments on my planned method, maybe from some of you people out
there who've already done it. *
amazingmolio,
Having a fixed hub would make it easier to learn to ride, I think,
especially in terms of transferring your unicycle skills. With a fixed
hub, you could remove any brakes. When I rode unis I always wanted to
be able to shift gears, but now that I have 21 gears to select from I
ask myself: How fast do I really want to be going when I wreck? So now
with the training wheel gone, I actually only use about three gears--
really slow to medium fast.
Chris
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