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  1. yes, you guessed it, i made another dodgey unicycle. this one took me 24
    minutes to build. it's got a 7.5" rim and 40mm cranks. it's really,
    really hard to ride, the furthest i got was 5metres after about 4
    minuts of riding. does anybody else have any really, really small
    wheeled unicycles?

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    sorry the pics on its side.

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  2. lol, that thing looks so funny, I would love to try and ride that.

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  3. You mean like this? This was a photo from Torchlight Parade during
    UNICON 2002 in Seattle.

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  4. duuude i want one!!!

    Chase

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  5. When I learned to ride, I was in a youth circus. We had a bunch of
    crazy unicycles.. one of the tamest of which was a small wheeled one.
    They called it a helicopter wheel.. we were led to believe that's what
    the wheel came from, not sure how true that was.

    It was tough to ride as you had to make corrections way faster to keep
    up with it. Nobody was going to win any races on it 🙂

    I wish I had pictures of that collection though.. some crazy stuff they
    had...

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  6. DM used to make a uni with a really small wheel...

    http://tinyurl.com/ntsj6

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  7. A silly unicycle similar to this was lurking in the hall on Saturday
    night at the British Unicycle Convention. I guess it was a 'trainer
    12\" unicycle' (http://tinyurl.com/7b7lc) with a ridiculously long
    seatpost to make it adult height.

    Riding it around was absolutely hilarious; I couldn't stop laughing,
    not helped by the fact that it squeaked as I plodded along. I didn't
    find it hard to ride and I could even idle it, although obviously it
    was completely impractical for going anywhere.

    I never found it who's it was...

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  8. can you ride that thing? if you can i'm sure it would take forever to
    get anywhere you wanted to go. not really a "fastest time from point a
    to point b" type of uni, huh? 😄

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  9. i want to make one of those
    gear it so it goes insanely fast though!

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  10. stuckinwheeliemode said:

    i want to make one of those
    gear it so it goes insanely fast though!

    haha get the one w/ the rollerblade wheel and do it tho, make it peel
    out!!!

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    hop-180 to backwards riding or a spin off of a wall or something

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  11. Take a close look at that photo that Yoopers posted. Looks like about a
    3" wheel geared up to maybe a 20" or so. That would just feel strange
    to ride.

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  12. iridemymuni said:

    yes, you guessed it, i made another dodgey unicycle. this one took me 24
    minutes to build. it's got a 7.5" rim and 40mm cranks. it's really,
    really hard to ride, the furthest i got was 5metres after about 4
    minuts of riding. does anybody else have any really, really small
    wheeled unicycles?

    [image:
    http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=219816&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=a029828cd8cec477c2669b06bfa4c0f0]
    sorry the pics on its side.

    out of couristosity(purposely spelt rong) where was the wheel from

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    how the hell do u get fluro brown??? it would also probably look like
    uve dunked the uni in a big pile of [censored]

    iridemymuni said:

    What colour [censored] do you do tom ? flouro brown [censored]? thats kinda weird

    tomtrevor said:

    y do u want to know the colour of my [censored]? like that just isn't natural
    for someone to think that.


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  13. Looks like the front of a tricycle welded to a cut up bike frame.

    'Here' (http://www.doowahriders.com/potw/picofweek82.htm)'s a small one
    for ya.

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  14. spudboy there is dead right.

    i got the bike seat tube thingo and cut it into a length, and then
    welded that over the forks of a kids tricycle.

    it took me 5 mins to cut through the tube, cause i didnt have a hacksaw
    and the angle grinder disc was too worn down, i got through it with a
    drill bit and a hammer drill :P

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  15. iridemymuni said:

    yes, you guessed it, i made another dodgey unicycle. this one took me 24
    minutes to build. it's got a 7.5" rim and 40mm cranks. it's really,
    really hard to ride, the furthest i got was 5metres after about 4
    minuts of riding. does anybody else have any really, really small
    wheeled unicycles?

    [image:
    http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=219816&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=a029828cd8cec477c2669b06bfa4c0f0]
    sorry the pics on its side.

    It's cool lookiing but that really SCREAMS "CLOWN-CYCLE"!😄

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  16. senc u talking about ''big''wheel's : Peter Rosendahl of Sweden,.
    Peter got the Guiness World Record of riding the smallest unicycle with
    15mm diameter wheel.

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  17. oh dear god, i dont want to look like a clown.

    i mean theres nothing wrong with it, its just not me.

    thats a small unicycle that guys got there

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  18. how much would you sell that for?

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    tomtrevor said:

    how the hell do u get fluro brown??? it would also probably look like
    uve dunked the uni in a big pile of [censored]

    iridemymuni said:

    What colour [censored] do you do tom ? flouro brown [censored]? thats kinda weird

    tomtrevor said:

    y do u want to know the colour of my [censored]? like that just isn't natural
    for someone to think that.


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  19. i cant sell the seat or seatpost, cause that's off my good unicycle :P.
    (the diametre is 25.4 or something like that.)

    i'd sell it to you, but you probably wouldnt want it as such, i've
    already bent the left crank (no matter, i can bend it back with my
    hands :P), and the tyre isnt inflatable (dont ask me, i dont know,
    theres nowhere to fill it up from and its weird), and it's got lollypop
    bearings (these arent too crash hot).

    do you still perform at southbank, i'll pop by one day and give you a
    ride

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  20. iridemymuni said:

    i cant sell the seat or seatpost, cause that's off my good unicycle :P.
    (the diametre is 25.4 or something like that.)

    i'd sell it to you, but you probably wouldnt want it as such, i've
    already bent the left crank (no matter, i can bend it back with my
    hands :P), and the tyre isnt inflatable (dont ask me, i dont know,
    theres nowhere to fill it up from and its weird), and it's got lollypop
    bearings (these arent too crash hot).

    do you still perform at southbank, i'll pop by one day and give you a
    ride

    no that you put it like that maybe I dont want it

    yeah I perform at south bank but havnt don so for a while and probably
    wont for a bit cause its the holidays

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    tomtrevor said:

    how the hell do u get fluro brown??? it would also probably look like
    uve dunked the uni in a big pile of [censored]

    iridemymuni said:

    What colour [censored] do you do tom ? flouro brown [censored]? thats kinda weird

    tomtrevor said:

    y do u want to know the colour of my [censored]? like that just isn't natural
    for someone to think that.


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