Is this unicycle anygood?

Basically these uni's are only made to ride on, even minor hopping and
small drops will bend your cranks/hub, but it's okay if you havn't
decided if you're going to keep unicycling or stop after you've learnt
it.
If you're planning on doing trials, I'd get anything splined if I were
you, strong hubs like suzue (cotterless) will hold for a while, but
eventually it will mess up, best get a splined hub/crankset.

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My Dad has one of these unis, and I have ridden it a few times.

It would be fine for a cheap learner uni, the only problem with it is
the 140mm cranks it comes with (not mentioned on ebay). These make it a
very twitchy ride and would probably be horrible for learning, so new,
shorter cranks (from unicycle.com) would add about another £10 to the
cost. SJS Cycles is also a trustworthy ebay seller in my experience.

If you want to do trials, however, you will need a more expensive uni.
This one has a narrow tyre with with very little bounce, no handle on
the seat, and most importantly, a cheap square taper hub that I
personally would not even use for hopping on the spot, let alone off
drops.

Trials unis are pretty expensive (but still very good value), so you
have a choice of spending a little now and a lot later (presuming you
stick with unicycling), or spending a lot now and nothing for quite a
while.

You might want to post on the Trading Post board to ask if anyone has a
20" to sell at the moment, whether it's one like this or a trials you
will still get a better price secondhand.

P.S. I'm assuming from the eBay link that you live in the UK. If you
are actually in the US then do what trials_uni said and get a Torker
DX, these are
cheap, have a great reputation, but unfortunately are not available in
the UK!

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it looks like a good learner uni. You might be able to start learning
trials on it then upgrade later if you like trials. The seat looks like
the one on my sun, which isn't that good for seat in hops but it fits
your hand really nice for sif stuff. If you learn sif i would suggest
putting electrical tape over where the back bumper meets the seat to
make it more comfortable for your legs.

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stuckinwheeliemode said:

it looks like a good learner uni. You might be able to start learning
trials on it then upgrade later if you like trials. The seat looks like
the one on my sun, which isn't that good for seat in hops but it fits
your hand really nice for sif stuff.

I agree.

Those unicycles can actually last a long time if you don't abuse them
too much. We've had two like that (but they were actually cheesier)
and they both lasted upwards of a year. You can usually take them off
of 2 foot drops if you're careful and it won't hurt it. If you are
going to get really into it, though, you may want to get a different
one.

And seats without handles are evil. Seriously, if there is a devil
then the first thing he would have made was a generic unicycle seat
without a handle.

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Looks like mine... I bought one like that to learn on, then I got some
shorter cranks so I could go faster, then I got a Nimbus 29er so I
could go faster, then I got a 36er so I could go faster...

It's getting expensive now ;-)

It's fine to learn on, not *too* uncomfy (but not great in the saddle
department!). Probably has a short seatpost, so you may need to get a
longer one (e.g. from unicycle.com).

For basic skills and some tricks it'll do OK. If you want more, you
can buy a better uni and keep that as a spare / for lending / whatever.
If you give up, you haven't spent much.

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Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat? And no
pedals!
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