Red Menace 36 update

And here's the trans. I have pretty much reached the design limit, with
the chain centerlines only 1.0" apart.

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Looks wonderful, Pete!

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I want that uni...

Thats so awesome...

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That looks closer to a bike than most uni's... major frame going on
there. Yep.

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Wow, function and form come together so beautifully.

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... um, Gulp🙂

Wow!

Are those Carbon Fiber cranks?

Cheers.

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Ha ha ha...I got to be the second human to ride this baby after Pete
christened it in my neighborhood today. I am here to testify that it is
one sweet machine, and if anything rides better than it looks, which is
saying a lot. Pete is a guy who likes his engineering precise, and it
really shows in this latest and finest example of his design. Purple
Phaze is nice, but this is nicer.

The gearing today was 1:1.4, giving it an effective 50" wheel size. I
wish I could have had more time to get comfortable with the gearing and
really crank it up, but I was pretty timid. After a summer of direct
drive coker cranking in prep for the 'MS-150'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51208), the gearing
felt really strange, even with the ride being super smooth. The uni
wasn't jerky, but I sure was. Still, I made it up the block and back
including a fairly tight u-turn, with no UPD.

Signing off now, while saying silent prayers I'll get another, longer
shot on the Red Menace sometime in the future.

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Nice machine....I like the incorporation of the disc brake and how the
axle and the hub are now inline as opposed to sitting above it- the
lowered centre of gravity compared with Purple Phaze must make it more
stable at speed.

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i dont quite get how it works.

can someone please explain it really slowly for me.

is the left crank not attatched to the hub at all?

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wow, that coker is nice! you could ride around the country on that
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Pete,

You sure know how to design a sexy thing like that, it's a pity you
live so far away because I'd sure like to try that thing sometime. I've
ridden a Schlumpf coker at Unicon and when your cranks are horizontal
you feel sort of a click and some of the energy you put in the
revolution is just gone. It feels very weird, you said there was no
crank play whatsoever, so you're saying it's a smoother ride than let's
say, a Schlumpf?
I love the handles you put on that thing, it was your Purple Haze
design that made me put handles on mine, and you keep giving me more
ideas on improving my own unicycle, keep up the good work!

Cheers,

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iridemymuni said:

i dont quite get how it works.

can someone please explain it really slowly for me.

is the left crank not attached to the hub at all?

The hub is different than any other unicycle hub. The hub body is on
bearings and is able to rotate around the axle. In that sense the hub
is like a bicycle wheel hub that spins on an axle.

The cranks are attached to the axle. There is a jackshaft (the two
cogs above the hub). The chain from the cranks drive the jackshaft.
The second chain from the jackshaft then goes down and drives the hub.
So the hub is able to spin at a different RPM than the axle. That is
what allows for gearing. It can be geared up or down based on the size
of the cogs.

I hope that makes sense. It's hard to explain without pictures.

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Very nice Pete. It's projects like this that keep the Seattle area at
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Thanks all! Yep, I am pleased with it. A new paint job on old frame
tubes that were cut & re-welded many time can go a long way.

Drawings for my next project have begun.

PS: Happy International Harper Day!!!

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That is a very nicely designed peice of equipment. I would really like
to try it. It looks so nice.

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That is absolutely incredible. What a sexy unicycle. I don't think I'd
ever stop riding it (not that I stop riding my other ones either..)

Man, that's amazing.

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I bet Dave Stockton would duplicate this for anyone interested...and I'd
also bet he could do it for less than I would. 🙂

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unisk8r said:

I bet Dave Stockton would duplicate this for anyone interested...and I'd
also bet he could do it for less than I would. 🙂

Would that be Dave Stockton from 'LiveWire Unicycles'
(http://www.livewireunicycles.com/)?

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