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tomtrevor said:

<snip> the right and left pedals threaded the cranks and then they
snapped off. this happened like ages away from my house so i had to
push it back the whole way.

What type of uni was it?

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munipsycho said:

What type of uni was it?

Reread his post, it wasn't a uni.

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The unicycle (or bike) always breaks at your farthest point from home
(the car). I narrowly missed having to take a very long walk last
summer when my 29" blew its tire on the Downieville trail. I don't know
how far from town we were, but it was way over 5 miles, with nothing
in-between. Fortunately one of the guys in the group had a 26" tube we
were able to stretch in there.

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johnfoss said:

The unicycle (or bike) always breaks at your farthest point from home
(the car).

Yes that will generally be true, because if your unicycle (or bike)
breaks, you're not going any further.

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Klaas Bil said:

Yes that will generally be true, because if your unicycle (or bike)
breaks, you're not going any further.

As always, flawless logic.

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Sorry about that Tom, although what we were doin did look pretty cool.
We nicely threaded the crank aye

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Quoted message said:

Sorry about that Tom, although what we were doin did look pretty cool.
We nicely threaded the crank aye

yea i rekon, als oremember the time we made that real dodge reverse
tandem and we ended up walking it 13km in 3 hours, that was not such a
great i dea after all.

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johnfoss said:

blew its tire on the Downieville trail

That trail is nasty for tires. It's the only trail I've ever blown a
tire on and noticed. All other flats while offroading have been slow
leaking enough that I didn't notice until several hours later.

Do you actually buy 700x50 tubes? I've always used 26x2 tubes on my
29er because that's what I have laying around, and because I've never
seen 700x50 for sale anywhere, not that I've looked very hard.

My worse flats have always been from nails, glass, and thorns on the
road. The farthest I ever had to walk was about 5 miles.

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phlegm said:

It's the only trail I've ever blown a tire on and noticed. All other
flats while offroading have been slow leaking enough that I didn't
notice until several hours later.

My tire didn't actually blow, it popped off the rim letting the tube
out, a-la Jacinto in Universe 2. I scrambled to let a bunch of air out,
which I did successfully. When I thought it was low enough to be safe
for a photo, I went to pull out my camera. *Then* it popped, only after
I had the camera out!

Quoted message said:

Do you actually buy 700x50 tubes? I've always used 26x2 tubes on my
29er because that's what I have laying around, and because I've never
seen 700x50 for sale anywhere, not that I've looked very hard.

Fact is, I haven't used that uni for any MUni since that ride. I'm sure
it'll be fine as long as I don't take it to places like Downieville
though.....

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