All Carbon Coker

It's been well and often thought of, but other than the custom one-off
carbon 36" frame on Flickr (I forget whose it was), no one has been
able to interest a manufacturer such as Giant or others with facilities
to make such a thing.

Plus you still have all the design issues to grapple with, regardless
of what materials the frame is made of. It'd be nice to see a frame
with modular bearing holders so that you could use either 40, 42, or
44mm bearings, thus opening it up to using just about any hub.

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bubbaeck said:

It would probably weight 5 pounds!

I think a Coker tire weighs about 5 pounds. In other words, there's a
limit to how light you're going to get as long as we're using the
existing tires and rim sizes.

Here's 'Scot Cooper's one-piece carbon 36\"'
(http://www.unicycling.smugmug.com/gallery/2411134#129900687). Looks
like at the time (two years ago) it also had a carbon seat and post,
but probably conventional rim (airfoil) and hub.

It would be hard to make a really big wheel that's really light,
without making it really weak. I'd rather improve my fitness level with
something heavier that's a lot less maintenance-intensive.

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Yeah, modular bearing holders (or some sort of industry standard) would
be nice... wow.. i didn't know a coker tire weighed that much...

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FYI: The frame was made by Calfee

http://www.calfeedesign.com/

I believe there was a dialog with Calfee regrarding making a carbon
rim, but it was cost prohibitive.

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johnfoss said:

Here's 'Scot Cooper's one-piece carbon 36\"'
(http://www.unicycling.smugmug.com/gallery/2411134#129900687).

That is one of the most beautiful things I have seen. 😎 I'd
heard rumour of a carbon 36" frame, but never seen it before.

Any idea how much it weighs? A Nimbus 36 frame is 1.1kg, I think a
standard steel frame is about 950g and an aluminium one (like the
up-coming KH36) I expect to be about 700g. Is this carbon beauty much
less than that?

They're silly little savings considering the cost and effort, but still
it's very cool.

Sam

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Well 'i know they make giraffe unicycles, just like the one they sell on
UDC UK.' (http://tinyurl.com/2o5lk) So i guess a carbon fibre coker
would be awesome to make/own/buy. :p

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And there is Magura brake mounts on the Carbon frame. Wow cool!

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