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Hi all,

You have a new member to the club: I just received my brand new Coker
this afternoon!!!

I didn't have time for a real ride, but I couldn't let it rest. As soon
as I touched it, I tried. I freemounted the first time, and I was
surprised how a pleasure it is to ride. Tough acceleration and
deceleration need some getting used to, it's more easy than I thought.
So tomorrow I'm gonna put a rail-seat-post, my air seat and DX pedals
and go for a real test.

Later

Vincent


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Excellent.
I remember my first Coker ride like it was yesterday. I spent 2 hours
reading the owners manual over & over:) I finally just got on and rode
like 14 miles (w/ jeans on :( ). It really opened my eyes & blew my
mind.
It still does----13,000 miles later.
-Mark


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Wipe that smile off your face!

Welcome to the Tres Grande Wheel club!


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vincelemay wrote:
> *...I freemounted the first time...*

Cool!
My main goal when I got my Coker was to freemount it on the first try.
You only get one chance at that and I wanted it to be good. I cheated a
little and pointed it down a slight hill just to make it easier. I was
successful. Then came the next challenge. I needed to do a U turn
cause the parking lot was running out of room. That little challenge
was less successful. The big Coker turns a little differently than I
expected. Oh well, it was 1 for 2.

Have fun with the new toy.


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Cokerhead is defintely "for real"! You don't have to wonder - just
search for his posts. That's what the handy Search button does.

I remember my first Coker ride. It was 5 years and 3 days ago. I put it
together, mounted up, rode about 2 revolutions, and fell onto the road.
On about the third or fourth try, I started really riding and loved the
feeling. I did my first full commute to work within a few days (13
miles).

DON'T do what I did next which was to ride more and more, with a
speedometer, pushing the max speed higher and higher. 5 weeks after I
started, I crashed really hard at 18.1mph. My shoulder and elbow didn't
fully recover for a whole year (although I was riding again the next
week). Anyway, take it easy and enjoy it - and welcome to the club!

---Nathan


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nathan wrote:
> *
> DON'T do what I did next which was to ride more and more, with a
> speedometer, pushing the max speed higher and higher. 5 weeks after I
> started, I crashed really hard at 18.1mph. My shoulder and elbow
> didn't fully recover for a whole year (although I was riding again the
> next week). Anyway, take it easy and enjoy it - and welcome to the
> club!
>
> ---Nathan *


Nathan, that is some great advice. When I get a Coker, I am sure I
would have done the exact same thing. With your warning, I will wait at
least 6 weeks before testing the top speed. :) Seriously, that is great
advice. --chirokid--


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That really is good advice i think, Nathan. For the first year or so
that i had my Coker, i just rode it. Somewhere along there, i added a
computer to it, and for a while, every ride had to prove
something...highest top speed, highest average speed, longest distance,
etc. After a (very long) while, i finally went back to just enjoying
the ride. The computer is still on it, i still like checking it when i
finish riding for the day, but i don't spend my entire ride feeling like
i'm trying to prove something!

Enjoy the Ride!
Chuck


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There's an owners manual? I don't remember an owners manual. Maybe I
didn't get one. I hope I'm not using my coker improperly...

Cokerhead wrote:
> *Excellent.
> I remember my first Coker ride like it was yesterday. I spent 2 hours
> reading the owners manual over & over:) I finally just got on and
> rode like 14 miles (w/ jeans on :( ). It really opened my eyes & blew
> my mind.
> It still does----13,000 miles later.
> -Mark *



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chirokid wrote:
> *
>
> I will wait at least 6 weeks before testing the top--chirokid-- *


And then you can ride over your brand new Golden Gate Bridge that I will
now sell you


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Hey,

I totally concur with Nathan, having made the exact same mistakes, and a
few more. I'm still interestd in speed Cokering, but now, after three
months, I realize two important things that I wish someone had told me
the day I jumped onto my Coker. For whatever that's worth, here they
are:

First (according to what Kris Holm told me), many people have
miscalibrated their cyclometers, and claimes of 20+ MPH with 150 cranks
are, by and large, vastly exaggerated; trying to chase after those
speeds, at the outset, only got me frustrated and damn near killed (I
can wind up a road bike upwards of 35MPH on the flats, but it's taken me
3 months on the Coker to learn to hold a true 13-14 MPH for as little as
a couple miles). Second, providing you have the leg strength/quickness
to wind up a road bike, Cokering speed comes from learning to relax
(especially your stomach and core) and developing a smooth, even stroke
(read--fluidly spinning, not punching, the peddles), without which the
speed wobbles are so scary you simply can't move your legs faster
without the terrifying feeling that you're going to eat asphalt any
second.

So now my focus has shifted to developing control and fluidity, and
having fun. I trust the speed will come, but chasing it has not worked
for me so far.

In short--have fun, work on gaining fluid peddling mechanics, and put in
a stack of miles.

Lastly, if you really are a die-hard for speed (like me), ocassional
work on the Ultimate Wheel has helped smooth out my peddling mechanics,
likewise, seat-out work on my Muni.

Enjoy!

JL


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nbrazzi wrote:
> There's an owners manual? I don't remember an owners manual. Maybe I
> didn't get one. I hope I'm not using my coker improperly...

Just for you:
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url:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/z-coker4.jpg (140 KB)

It's a wonderful comedy document that basically spends 3 pages saying
"unicycling can kill you, so don't say we didn't warn you and try to sue
us if you fall off and hurt yourself". Very, very American.

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Cokerhead wrote:
> *I remember my first Coker ride like it was yesterday. *
I remember mine too. David Coker brought one to the 1998 USA Convention
in Monrovia, CA. I think this one was the first one Gilby won in the
raffle. It was probably the first one any of us had seen. I took it
outside and tried to ride it. The tire needed way more air. We put more
air in. It still rode funny, because all my large wheel unicycing
experience had been on hard, narrow tires. I had trouble with it because
I was trying to curve and swoop around like I do on my 45" Tom Miller
wheel. I did not yet know the Coker is best at going in a straight
line.

I never rode any distance on a Coker until the 10k race at the 2001
NAUCC in Toronto. I borrowed one for that and had a blast riding it.

It's cool that Coker Tire includes an owner's manual with their product.
So few unicycles come with one.


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johnfoss wrote:
> *It's cool that Coker Tire includes an owner's manual with their
> product. So few unicycles come with one. *

The Coker manual is a classic with all the warnings of *serious injury
or death*. I hope I still have the manual that came with my Coker.
It's going to be a keeper for a long time. I think it's time to dig
through the parts closet to try to find that manual. It's gotta be in
there somewhere.


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Thanks everyone for the welcomes and good advices!

I tested the beast today. I did only 20 kms due to lack of time, but I
rode up/down some steep hills and the wind was strong (we're quite high
up there!), so it gave me a good idea of the feeling : a pretty good one
:D

-Originally posted by Nathan-
> DON'T do what I did next... pushing the max speed higher and higher.


Thanks for the note, I'm gonna try not to push myself too much, but I
love speed...

Like Vivalargo wrote, it's easier to have a good pedals stroke on a bike
than on a Big Wheel. My coach taught me to have a fluid round one on a
mtb, but without the help of the upper body, it's more difficult. I'm
gonna train to relax it, I think it's an excellent advice.

I will soon need a speedometer, so what do you recommend? I heard Shwinn
makes one for the 36 inches?


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Once you have a few rides in, you will become much more comfortable on
it. Less attention will need to be paid to 'staying up' and you will
feel more relaxed, enough to focus on what needs to be worked on to get
the most effective spinning.

Your knowledge of what an effective spin on a bicycle is, is a very big
advantage. Handlebars Shmandlebars


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has an atomic mass of 16. The total atomic mass within a D2O molecule is
20 and within an H2O molecule is 18. Heavy water is 20/18, 10/9, or 1.11
times as heavy as water." - Harper's response to 'Hi Greg, how are
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vincelemay wrote:
> *I will soon need a speedometer, so what do you recommend? I heard
> Shwinn makes one for the 36 inches? *

The Schwinn isn't the only cycle computer that will handle a 36" wheel.
Many other brands and models will too.

I don't think Schwinn is still making the model that I liked. Last time
I went to Wal*Mart they had a new style Schwinn computer that isn't as
good.

The Schwinn computer I liked was this one:
'Schwinn SW500' (http://tinyurl.com/ehof)
It's still on the Schwinn web site, so I don't know what's going on.

Topeak has a new computer that looks a lot like the old Schwinn. Maybe
Topeak bought the design from Schwinn???
'Topeak computers'
(http://www.topeak.com/2004/products/computer_lead.html)


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I've been thinking of getting a 29 inch uni, but now i'm concidering a
coker after reading more posts. I want to go riding on the road, and I
have a 24 which is ok. But I don't wanna get a 29 and be like, this
isn't that much better for distance. And yes I know i'll probably have
both someday...... so it's just a matter of which one first.

Now I know not to go for speed too much, thanks.

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CJ-52, there is no question. Get a COKER! A 29er is a compromise for the
road - easier to transport and lighter, but it doesn't have the speed.
It's still really a small unicycle whereas the Coker is something
different. It depends on what you want. If you're doing cross-country
Muni (and are not crazy), you might want a 29er.

vincelemay, I have been using Vetta RT-88 and V100A on my Hunter36. The
reason I picked these is that the transmitters are pretty wide and work
with the extra wide hub on my wheel. With a standard Coker, you can use
these or a Cateye Cordless 2 like I have on my bike, or many others. I
recommend wireless as these have been working for me and not having the
wire is great. Battery life is good (years). The RT-88 only lasted a
year before it got very hard to reset. I've got 100 miles on my new
V100A and LOVE the altitude functions - overall it works great.

---Nathan


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