Cycling Forum / General / Unicycles / October 2006

Hi all,
Those of you who attended Unicon X in Beijing have no doubt seen the real cool, huge Chinese monocycles. I have been getting various inquiries over the last few years about how to get these, and I have been in contact with the CUA several times, but they had trouble with ...

Hey I'm 11 and my birthdays on October 28th and i'm wondering who's the
yougest crankflipper and 360 unispiner because i could land crankflips
like a week ago and im so close to a 360 unispin like in an hour i''d
probably get it so im just wondering whos the youngest person to land

The ones with the plastic inserts in the palm. Anyone know where to get
them just now? All sources I've found seem to be sold out.
JL

I'm a copy cat with these counting threads, but who cares they are fun
and interesting.  In this one you type how much you have spent on
unicycles, not exact if you don't want, but just try and get a close
amount, then add it to the running total.  I think it will end up more

Title kinda says it all - are there any 16" rims around that have 48
holes? I've been searching but not found any.  Sun does the Rhynolite
rim in 16 x 1.75" size but I'm not sure what drillings it comes in...

It had to happen sooner or later.  I started unicycling at the end of
July on my 50th birthday.  It was just yesterday that I got my first
"You've lost your other wheel!"  Oh, I did get the "Entry of the
Gladiators" hummed at me a long time ago.   Otherwise it's been mostly,

I got my crabcycle powder coded now. :D  Tom Miller (of TUF) was able to
set this up for me.
I just put up some new video on http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/crab.html
I added reverse (note I am going right by pedaling backwards, which

Anyone in the Philedalphia want to meet at love park for a unicycle
meeting? im thinking november 19th email me max_wippermann@yahoo.com

Crankflip Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaDyxB0gwMw
Enjoy
-Shaun Johanneson

My father-in-law gave me this clip from the telly guide of, I think, the
Mail.  Did they really show film from BMW?  Anybody see it or better
still record it?  Any idea who (and where) that is in the photograph?
Rob

What's the consensus, is this thing more comfortable than the 06 Fusion
or Nimbus gel for distance riding?

Hey, well heres the deal:
ive got tha kh frame and 19" VIZ rim, i've laced it to the wheel a bit
and its now 11:02pm. i havent ordered the tyre yet and i want to take
it down to the lbs to get it tensioned and trued tommrorw.

I'm pleased to finally be able to announce the first session of the
revived Bristol Freaks unicycle hockey club. For those of you near
other Bristols around the World, this is the one in the south west of
England.

I need a trials/street uni and I really want a Koxx. How much would it
be to get in the U.S. and/or could I get it anywhere in the U.S.?

I've been noticing this for several days, and trying (and failing) to
isolate/clear it the whole time, maybe someone else has some ideas.
While riding in straight lines (most of my riding) I have two positions
I default to; anything else feels off balance and usually results in a