i wanna get into muni.....

Qu-Ax muni. You won't be disappointed.

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Get splined, you'll break anything else pretty quickly. Also I personaly
recomend getting a KH, over a onza.

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*Get splined, you'll break anything else pretty quickly. *

I disagree, I am NOT a "little" man by any means and I've been riding on
a square taper axle/hub for over 2 years without a problem. If you're
not using it for trials, a square taper is quite capable of lasting a
long time. Granted, splined hubs are stronger, but not everyone needs
one 😉

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one_man_one_wheel said:

*p.s.s. are udc prices in american currency only? *

Have you called 'Darren Bedford' (http://www.bedfordunicycles.ca/) in
Toronto? Unless there's something you're not telling us, there's
probably no reason not to deal with him for all you Unicycle needs.

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Krashin'Kenny said:

*I disagree, I am NOT a "little" man by any means and I've been riding
on a square taper axle/hub for over 2 years without a problem. If
you're not using it for trials, a square taper is quite capable of
lasting a long time. Granted, splined hubs are stronger, but not
everyone needs one 😉 *

That is reletivly true, but not for anyone that is, "serious" about
muni, trials, or street. If you associate muni with trail ridding your
probably right, but other wise i'd disagree.

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*That is reletivly true, but not for anyone that is, "serious" about
muni, trials, or street. If you associate muni with trail ridding your
probably right, but other wise i'd disagree. *

Serious about Muni!! What is that supposed to mean? At what point does
the unserious rider become a serious Muni rider? Do I have to spend a
certain amount of $$ to be serious. Will more money spent make me a
better rider? Maybe a serious rider beats up on his equipment, doesn't
learn how to land without destroying parts. Please explain as I really
would like to become a "serious Muni rider" some day.

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One on one said:

*Serious about Muni!! What is that supposed to mean? At what point
does the unserious rider become a serious Muni rider? Do I have to
spend a certain amount of $$ to be serious. Will more money spent make
me a better rider? Maybe a serious rider beats up on his equipment,
doesn't learn how to land without destroying parts. Please explain as
I really would like to become a "serious Muni rider" some day. *

He obviously means one who rides a lot of M-uni miles and/or has a
significant amount of vertical change.

For example, putting 4000 M-uni miles on square tapers ain't a good
idea. Moreover, doing 2-3+ foot drops, technical downhill, and/or
hopping up 10,000 vertical feet (in a year) ain't a good idea for
non-splined either. To put in that amount of "play/effort" one must put
in "serious" saddle time (regardless of their mental attitude).

You imply that you have an issue with "$."
He didn't mention COST, just design.
Since you brought it, up, M-uni IS an expensive sport (if one considers
time, equipment and optional travel). I'd bet the best riders spend
"serious" amounts of time, effort, and even $. I'm not just cited the
riders that "go big" either.

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Hi,
I came from windsurfing to unicycling,muni mostly.As Mr Peck quite
rightly says it is a very weather dependant sport.It is also quite
expensive.What these sports taught me is that,within reason,you gets
what you pays for.

I have two 24 uni's.One (my first) is a cheapo raliegh at about £80,it
has square tapers and a skinny street tyre.Although fine for learning
on,when I took it off road I had doubts.The tyre would skip sideways off
the smallest of stones and my first drops of about 5-8 inches were
disasterous.I have an engineering background and this coupled with all
the breakage posts I,ve read convinced me that it was only a matter of
time before something broke.Filled with fear I found the most simple
muni impossible.so...

I bought a kh,it gave me the same feeling that leg armour gives most
people.Confidence.There is a lot to think about whilst muni,ing.Not
thinking about breakages/shin scrapes can be a boon to some people.If
you are one of these people get youre wallet out :-)

Ridingwise I did less than 80 miles on the raliegh I,ve done way more
than 270 on the kh so the way I look at it the kh was cheaper.

As far as onza or kh goes,I dont think there is a lot in it.They are
both really good.

All SERIOUS sport is about pushing yourself to your limits,the last
thing you want is to be limited by you're equipment.

Good luck with whatever you choose.
Stu

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The trouble I have here is with the two words "serious" and "unicycling"
in the same sentence - OXYMORON !

It's a unicycle for goodness sake. Muni is fantastic FUN, but not
serious - same way as 5ex is FUN, but when it becomes serious it loses
some fun-factor and becomes a means towards an end, i.e. procreation, or
travelling from A to B.

I go to work to be serious and grown-up about life, the rest of the time
I have FUN. As soon as it stops being fun, then I'll hang up the uni's
for the last time.

On the question of which muni to consider:

If doing big drops is your idea of fun, then you will need kit up to the
task, probably splined. I have ridden many hundreds of miles on rough
trail with limited drops on the same square-taper hub, even the same
bearings, over the last 3-years with ne'er a problem, other than a crank
occasionally coming loose. If for some reason I start to find leaping
towards possible unicycle component or limb breakage, then I'll invest
in stronger kit.

Horses for courses - you don't buy a racehorse to pull a cart or a shire
horse to run the Grand National.

Above all - keep having FUN !😄

Chris

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munidobs said:

*Above all - keep having FUN !😄

Chris *

Cutting to the core . . .

One cannot have "fun" once their equipment breaks and becomes
unusable.

Therefore, we all agree.

Obviously one_man_one_wheel wants to avoid breakage.
Breakage is "no fun."

//Currently without a splined unicycle.

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