Air pressure trials

how wide is your tire?

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well first off you shouldn't be using that for very heavy trials 🙂.

Its all about compromise, you want a fairly low pressure for
jumping/hopping but a fairly high pressure for jumping off stuff/not
damaging your rim...so therfore you must find YOUR ideal tYre pressure,
there is no number that i can give you because it depends on heaps of
varaibles (tyre, your weight, style of riding, atmospheric
pressure...etc). Just pump it up and see what feels good, too hard to
hop then lower it a bit, if your hiting your rim (you will definetly be
able to feel this) then pump it up.

P.S. I dont have a pressure gauge on my pump anyway 🙂

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thanks. my tire is 1.75 width i think. something like that ... oh and
it's only 20", not 24".

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I would not do hard stuff(Drops higher than 1/2 metre)with that small
tyre.
That is exactly the way how I killed my first uni.

I also wouldn't jump too high. A friend of mine cracked his first uni
when he jumped up 8 inches or so.

So:

1. Don't drop more than half metre!!
2. Don't jump up more than 8 inches!!

Generally you shouldn't do hard Stuff on such a Babyuni.
IT IS DANGEROUS IF YOU BREAK A CRANK OR A PEDAL WHILE YOU DO THAT HARD
STUFF! SAVE MONEY, GET REAL TRIAL OR A MUNI, THEN YOU CAN DO WHATEVER
YOU WANT WITHOUT BEEING AFRAID! IT IS EASY TO BREAK A UNI LIKE YOURS!

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haha my mate's first uni was just a 1.75 x 20" learners uni and it
survived awesome for a few months...he was doing 1m - 1.5m drops,
grinding and generally thrashing it.

tis all about technique 😎

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evil-nick said:

Trials biker after seeing me jump off a concrete barrier: "How do you
keep from squashing your nuts!?"
Me: "I use those for cushioning!"

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my very first uni was some junk unicycle out of a kids magazine with
lollipop bearings and a plastic rim and 3 big plastic spokes, the other
day i decided to get it out and see what it could handle, i got up to
roll hopping down a 5 stair before the rim was crushed...anyways back
on topic.

fill your tire up to the recommended air pressure to start with and
then lower the air pressure until you find your "sweet spot"
thats what i did.

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yeah... or is you have some money just get a 2.175 bmx tire(thats about
all you rim will hold) i did that and ran it around 40psi but im
230lbs. now i run a luna trials tire at around 22-25psi. great bounce!

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trials_uni said:

now i run a luna trials tire at around 22-25psi. great bounce!

dang thats low, i thought i was running it low at 35psi. (i weigh 190
lbs.)
At 35psi on big drops i will feel the rim tap the ground, but if i go
any higher then it bounces me way hard when i do a big drop, and thats
never any fun.

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its honestly better to get a 20"
a 24" will bend really easy unless u have a muni and evan then it will
still not take to much of a beating(not as much as a trials...)

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