GUNI (Geared UNI) won't downshift

take it to the bike shop or if you know anyone that knows a lot about
unicycles. they should be able to fix it for you.

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Hmmm... not able to shift when off of it? I never had that problem. I'd
ask Florian about it and send it back if needed.

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Why would you want to downshift at NAUCC? Wouldn't you be using it for
the 10k?

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tomtrevor said:

take it to the bike shop or if you know anyone that knows a lot about
unicycles. they should be able to fix it for you.

This may be the post that makes my sabattical permanent.

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It might be that the shift lever has got messed up a bit. It's maybe
worth taking off the shift buttons and looking at what's going on under
there. If it doesn't look like there's anything bent, maybe taking off
and putting back on the shift buttons might fix it, if they've just got
a little bit bashed?

I've never done it, but I think you need to use the two little tools
that came with it to take off the buttons, I think you hold the button
still with the flat thing, and unscrew the tiny allen key in the
middle.

Joe

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tomblackwood said:

This may be the post that makes my sabattical permanent.

Tom, I feel your pain. But don't go. We need you.....sort of 🙂

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tomblackwood said:

This may be the post that makes my sabattical permanent.

Don't leave us, Tom!!! Just do what I do: Take any advice with a grain
of salt. If the advice giver is under 20, apply a 2nd grain.

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harper said:

Why would you want to downshift at NAUCC? Wouldn't you be using it for
the 10k?

You're exactly right. In fact, I told Florian that I wouldn't send it
back till after NAUCC -- unless it fails me completely before then.
I'll be riding to work today; round-trip it's 9 miles. If it holds up
for now, I'll just have to get used to riding in high gear.

I have a feeling that I can repair it with some button-jiggering. I
don't think that I've damaged the shift buttons, but perhaps one of
them got wonky anyway.

To clarify, the buttons can move in on both sides as they normally do
when we shift, but when I put it into low gear, nothing happens.

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David_Stone said:

Yup. I don't really know what, if anything, I did. While riding
yesterday, I had to slow down quickly and also may have bumped a curb
lightly at the time. Later I noticed that the uni wouldn't downshift,
so I hopped off and tried it by hand. But then today, I tested it and
was unable to downshift under any conditions, either riding or
otherwise.

Help! I don't want to have to send it back. This is a 2nd gen hub, and
I want to use it at NAUCC. Thanks.

Will the button push across but then nothing happens or is it stuck?

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The recumbent bike shop here in State COllege has schlumf geared hubs on
some of their cycles, Florian even stopped by the shop once, I gather
from talking to the store owner. Is there a recumbent specialty shop in
NYC that would have such things and the technical know how to help you?

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This is the exact reason why i gave up Mountain biking and Bmx, too many
complicated mechanisms to go wrong.

Just when i thought unicycles were the most basic form of cycle,
someone goes and invents the shlumpf!

Rock on!
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David_Stone said:

I'll be riding to work today; round-trip it's 9 miles. If it holds up
for now, I'll just have to get used to riding in high gear.

Did you move or are you no longer working in Manhattan?

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tomtrevor said:

take it to the bike shop or if you know anyone that knows a lot about
unicycles. they should be able to fix it for you.

hmm... i dont know if any bike shops would know much about a Guni hub,
but i guess they could figure it out.

You could even take it apart and figure it out yourself.

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podzol said:

The recumbent bike shop here in State COllege has schlumf geared hubs on
some of their cycles, Florian even stopped by the shop once, I gather
from talking to the store owner. Is there a recumbent specialty shop in
NYC that would have such things and the technical know how to help you?

There must be some local recumbent bike specialists. Thanks for the
suggestion. I'll look into it. There are now three local gunis, so it
might be good to have someone around here who can service our special
hubs.

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harper said:

Did you move or are you no longer working in Manhattan?

We're still in Brooklyn (tho we have a lot of connexions to Manhattan)
for the next few months. We're going to move this summer (some time
before mid-August).

The NYUC will continue to meet at 122nd and RSD in Manhattan -- under
my continuing dictatorship; New Paltz is only an hour away from Grant's
Tomb.

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I took it out to try it today, and it didn't work -- at first. Then I
just pushed the wheel around and spun it around and lo and behold, it
works. But it didn't work the next time. But then on my way to work
today, I tried to downshift and was happy to discover that it worked.

When it fails, what happens is that the button goes in but the hub
stays in high gear. My hunch is that I can ride it in high gear safely
as long as the hub is set to high gear.

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well that's good news!

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I would make sure that problem is fully corrected before you put on your
superman suit. You have no idea how it will jam next time your
cruising.

Adam

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JustOneWheel said:

I would make sure that problem is fully corrected before you put on your
superman suit. You have no idea how it will jam next time your
cruising.

That's a good point. Now I'm worried. But I did ride 10 miles today
without problems.

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