I can kind of see what Roger's getting at, but the 20G tyre is afterall,
one of almost a hundred 20" tyre options.
As for the 20" rim itself, going for a high quality and reasonably wide
BMX rim would be alright, I mean quality BMX rims that are in the
centre of trendsville in BMX community. Take for example the Araya
Himiko rim, it currently has the undisputedly best quality chrome
plating on any 20" BMX rim, plus its design seems to make it very
durable when you see how harsh and hard street BMXers go.
I say, quality BMX rim with a good width, added to a nice chunky-ish
BMX tyre, and it'll be without a doubt be interesting to ride. The 20G
may be awesome for BC, but as Roger said, it's not a miracle for 20"
unis. We don't necessarily need fat tyres for street though to be
honest.. because if you have a high quality BMX rim, high quality
built, and a nice slick and popular BMX tyre like the Animal tyres (ASM
and GLH 20x2.1"😉 it may feel great for all-round smoothness. It may be
a while before this whole 20" thing catches on, but a trials tyre and
wheelbuild generally feels too rugged, bouncy, soft, and grippy to give
a smooth flowsome ride in flatland and street.
I'm going to be brutally honest, but currently street unicycling is
going through its equivalent of 'adolescence' in that there is a lot of
experimentation and changes going on in both the riding and the unis.
Flatland too is relatively recent, but neither street or flat in
unicycling are anywhere near the smoothness and flow-some-ness of the
BMX equivalents. Compare street BMX to street unicycling, obviously BMX
is more flowsome and every move seems knotted in nicely, whilst street
unicycling is more: stop, go, stop, go, correction hop, go, stop,
correction hop. There's no real flow in comparison to BMX in both
street and flat, but afterall unicycling as a sport is still not fully
matured so those will be fixed in time. As of right now,
experimentation with quality 20" wheelbuilds with BMX derived
components may well be the future for flowsome street and flat.
Just my 2pence (or £1?!), but 20" street is definitely worth a crack.
EDIT: forgot to add: Don't say, Oh look at Shaun or Xavier you fool,
they are so damn flowsome... Well, my reply to that is that they are
amazing indeed, but I am sure Xavier at least can admit that sometimes
his riding can be improved by the eliminiation of correction hops
during his street runs/lines. Also trials unicycling is almost as
smooth as biketrials right now in many areas, as trials uni-ing has
developed and grown for a much longer time than street uni-ing has, so
once street unicyling as taken more time to evolve THEN it will become
comparable to the flow of BMX.
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