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    monociclos
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    Im setting up a trials giraffe...

    I recently bougth a 1,50m DM one, in my opinion one of the heaviest and
    strongest giraffe frames!!

    I would like to upgrade the necessary parts like wheel, the cranks and
    the hub.

    Wheel: I´ve builded a wheel with a monty x-lite and a shimano deore
    front hub with disk brake mount.

    My idea is to make a fixed gear dilling a cog and bolting it into the
    hub.

    -> http://www.63xc.com/jasom/milldisc.htm

    What do you think??

    Any of you know paul the guy who performed at the muni trials
    convention with a custom trials giraffe?? I was so cool..

    I need some help to choose the crank measure and size of cog..

    Thanks!

    Pepe

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    Sounds fun. I wanna see some pedalgrabs to rubber when you are finished
    building it.

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  3. litldude2
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    I was doing small trials on my giraffe a long time ago. I am never ever
    going to do it again. Normally falling off of 2 pallets is not a big
    deal but when your wheel is stuck and you are already 5 feet in the air
    you dont just fall down, you get catapulted really far to the side.
    That happened to me and I landed on another unicycle. So have fun😉

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  4. kington99
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    Bolting the gear to the disk brake mount is an inspired idea, I always
    wanted to build a Muni giraffe and now I know how. The DM frames are
    very sturdy, not like my TX, I've seen DMs hopped up curbs a lot even
    in standard form. Seriously though, get some serious protection if
    you're going to do trials on this things, I spent the whole of this
    morning in hospital getting a uncycling injury checked out and it's not
    much fun.

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  5. litldude2
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    kington99 said:

    Bolting the gear to the disk brake mount is an inspired idea, I always
    wanted to build a Muni giraffe and now I know how. The DM frames are
    very sturdy, not like my TX, I've seen DMs hopped up curbs a lot even
    in standard form. Seriously though, get some serious protection if
    you're going to do trials on this things, I spent the whole of this
    morning in hospital getting a uncycling injury checked out and it's not
    much fun.

    hmm, I have hopped up alot of curbs on my TX and it didn't break.

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  6. kington99
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    Yeah sure, I didn't mean those two things to be directly connected, I'm
    not saying the TX can't do curbs, but the DM is deffinitely a much
    stronger frame. A friend of mine bent the bottom bracket on his TX
    hopping curbs, and it does feel like the frame flexes alot when i try
    and hop on it. But then i probably weigh twice what you do.

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