Hub/Wheelset with coasting ability?

To your first question, I say "Probably not." As you may or may not
know, being able to apply torque to the wheel in both directions is
critical to riding. (Okay, it's not critical, but it makes it a *lot*
easier than it otherwise would be.) I don't know about your second
question.

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you can get front-wheel-drive tricycle hubs that you can fit into a
unicycle and will allow you to coast, but they are tricky to use at
first.

the average flange separation of a unicycle hub is about 2.3 inches and
they're total width is on average about 6 inches.

jim

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Some people have made custom coasting unicycles out of specialty
tricycle, and bigwheel hubs. But as said before, you can't ride well
without backwards pressure what needs to be made is a unicycle that can
disengage its direct drive via a clutch, and can coast, but don't hold
your breath.

Someday... someday.....

As for the hub width, I don't know what it is, but its standard, for
most unicycle hub manufacturures, (I wont say all) wheel diamater dosn't
matter.

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Here's a video of a coaster uni that the SWAT made:

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/album390

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A couple of people have made unicycles using a Coker penny-farthing hub,
but I think it's quite expensive (I think I heard somebody say he spent
£400 on building his unicycle - a lot for a novelty machine, although it
was nice looking).

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The 'Coker Wheelman'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=439)

A past thread on 'freewheeling unicycles' (http://tinyurl.com/7ahcz)

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