gpickett00 said:*is it as hard as catwalking on a bike? or is it more like
the feeling of riding a unicycle. i think it would be cool
to try out *
gpickett00,
I'm not sure what catwalking is. It does not ride like a
unicycle at all, actually. Very limited similarities,
anyway. It's much more like trying to ride a really long
wheelie on a bicycle. Part of this is because it has a
freewheel hub on it, so you pedal forward to go forward, but
have to feather in rear brake to keep from flipping over
backward. Steering is also much different-- you don't just
twist the saddle with your hips and turn. It turns more like
a regular uni in a spin-- you lean the bike into the turn
while leaning your body away from the turn. I don't know
what all makes it work, but it's been a long time in
learning. I rode with a front wheel on there for a long
time, trying to do the same stuff. The no-training-wheel
version was just good incentive to keep it up longer. Boy
did it work! I suppose it's lighter now, too, and the wind
doesn't blow the front end around like it did with the front
wheel on there.
fluffinator007 said:*I was going to make one of these. Is all that you did
chop off the front wheel? Or are there other
adjustments/additions/reductions? *
fluffinator,
First I just took off the front wheel, and still had the
fork sticking down. While it looked cool that way, it
didn't seem very safe. So I hack-sawed the fork off right
near the frame.
theamazingmolio said:*I've been planning to make one for a while. I was hoping
to find a BMX, or something else without a derallier gear
system, take the front wheel off, butcher the freewheeling
hub so that it doesn't anymore, and see what happens. The
first time I saw anything like this was on a TV advert for
a building society or something a little while back. A
unicycle turns heads, but once they've seen one they've
seen em all, but this just looks really surreal. Any
comments on my planned method, maybe from some of you
people out there who've already done it. *
amazingmolio,
Having a fixed hub would make it easier to learn to ride, I
think, especially in terms of transferring your unicycle
skills. With a fixed hub, you could remove any brakes. When
I rode unis I always wanted to be able to shift gears, but
now that I have 21 gears to select from I ask myself: How
fast do I really want to be going when I wreck? So now with
the training wheel gone, I actually only use about three gears--
really slow to medium fast.
Chris
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