My DIY mini girafe

HAHAHA, that's awesome. I want one. Any videos of you riding it?

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Looks great! I love the color. Good job.

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I want one too. Or rather, I would like to construct one. Could you
perhaps be bothered to write more in details, perhaps with some
illustrations how to make one, step by step? I am quite sure I wouldn't
be the only one here appreciating that 🙂

It looks great, nice detail with the painted chain to match the fork!

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That thing does look pretty cool 😄
Have you ridden it yet?

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thats kool wanna make me one

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Yeah, I think I might make one some time.

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Awsome. Great color scheme, too.

I doubt that chain will stay green for long, though.🙂

Nice handiwork.

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I built a Mini G very similar to the the one you built. By the date on
the photo It looks like I built it in April of 2003.

I have a series of photos of my building it in my photo gallery at my
Yahoo Group (link in my signature line)

Your frame looks a lot beefier than mine, greener too.

I realy like riding this one, for some reason beyond my understanding,
the geometry of this design makes idling almost effortless.

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I built a Mini G very similar to the the one you built. By the date on
the photo It looks like I built it in April of 2003.

I have a series of photos of my building it in my photo gallery at my
Yahoo Group (link in my signature line)

Your frame looks a lot beefier than mine, greener too.

I realy like riding this one, for some reason beyond my understanding,
the geometry of this design makes idling almost effortless.

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tose are soo cool! i want one!

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dude.. make it geared.. oent have to be like super dooper fast.. but
like as fast as a 26 or 28 then you would have the most pimepd out
geared ever

Chase

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Unitik908 said:

*dude.. make it geared.. oent have to be like super dooper fast.. but
like as fast as a 26 or 28 then you would have the most pimepd out
geared ever

Chase *

The first MiniG I built (1996) had a 16" wheel and my first gearing
configuration was equivilant to a 42" wheel. I never made it more than
one turn of the pedals. At that time I had never seen a giraffe, but I
figured I should get the gearing as close to the 24" wheel that I was
used to riding. I ended up with about a 22" wheel equivilant by cutting
the cogs off a 12 speed hub and braising the wheel that had the closest
number of teeth onto the coaster brake hub.

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Unitik908 said:

*dude.. make it geared.. oent have to be like super dooper fast.. but
like as fast as a 26 or 28 then you would have the most pimepd out
geared ever

Chase *

The first MiniG I built (1996) had a 16" wheel and my first gearing
configuration was equivilant to a 42" wheel. I never made it more than
one turn of the pedals. At that time I had never seen a giraffe, but I
figured I should get the gearing as close to the 24" wheel that I was
used to riding. I ended up with about a 22" wheel equivilant by cutting
the cogs off a 12 speed hub and braising the wheel that had the closest
number of teeth onto the coaster brake hub.

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al_lieffring said:

*The first MiniG I built (1996) had a 16" wheel and my first gearing
configuration was equivilant to a 42" wheel. I never made it more than
one turn of the pedals. At that time I had never seen a giraffe, but
I figured I should get the gearing as close to the 24" wheel that I
was used to riding. I ended up with about a 22" wheel equivilant by
cutting the cogs off a 12 speed hub and braising the wheel that had
the closest number of teeth onto the coaster brake hub. *

cool so you could go at a fairly decent speed?

Chase

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al_lieffring said:

*The first MiniG I built (1996) had a 16" wheel and my first gearing
configuration was equivilant to a 42" wheel. I never made it more than
one turn of the pedals. At that time I had never seen a giraffe, but
I figured I should get the gearing as close to the 24" wheel that I
was used to riding. I ended up with about a 22" wheel equivilant by
cutting the cogs off a 12 speed hub and braising the wheel that had
the closest number of teeth onto the coaster brake hub. *

cool so you could go at a fairly decent speed?

Chase

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Unitik908 said:

*cool so you could go at a fairly decent speed?

Chase *

I wasn't able to ride it at all set up like that.

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looks a million times better painted,

look what you could make it into
a mini mini g:

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maybe a mini giraffe would be my perfect unicycle....it's easy to idle
with, light i'm sure, and it would be easy to design a gearing system
with 2 settings so i could ride it long distances....

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maybe a mini giraffe would be my perfect unicycle....it's easy to idle
with, light i'm sure, and it would be easy to design a gearing system
with 2 settings so i could ride it long distances....

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