Announcing the new KH gear for June 2012

[danger_uni]

Also - please can you measure the width of the bearing housings. They should be 20 mm (not 22 mm).

Is this with a geared hub or regular hub?

[Feisty]

Kris your revised leg armor is amazing, on long rides I would get some rubbing above my knees from the old version but these new ones with the knee cup are so comfortable I genuinely forget I have them on!

My only concern is they have a fabric cover on the knee area where the old version had the same hard-wearing shiny material as the inside of the calf which makes me wonder how resilient they are?

[danger_uni]

Glad you like them!
My personal experience is that the knees get occasionally bashed (when you fall, and not always even then), whereas the inside leg and shins more frequently get hit. I've been testing them for over a year and the knee fabric is still in good shape.

[Fatlazypig]

Will measure bearing housings in the morning, I have it all packed away now

It is a geared hub, so no spacers

Seems the biggest rub is at the weld. I think I can get this to work with a file
The bolts are contacting other areas but just scratching the powdercoating

I'll take the wheel out and take the whole housing back to bare metal with a flat file ans take some metal off the weld and try again

This is my plan for tomorrow

Even though the wheel wont turn, it looks amazing

[danger_uni]

OK that explains it. It is a tight fit with the geared hub and the slightest variation in spline size or angle on the produced hub affects the lateral position of the cranks, lacking a spacer between them and the bearing.

Kris

[Fatlazypig]

So I took the wheel out. I was hoping to just take the edge off the weld. But seems
All 6 bolts were gouging the paint so I filed it all back

Now the wheel will spin smoothly.


Until I put the caliper on.
Disc is really warped

Hmm guess I'm destined not to ride today

I must say however uni is looking Amazing
I'm glad I went with the frame rab not the d'brake

[Fatlazypig]

Love this stuff

Cranks look awesome
Was worried about the shifting braking situation but seems to work

Took a bit of fettling, but couldn't be happier

Thank you Kris

[Nurse Ben]

Kris, maybe I missed it, but do you say if your disc brake tab will work with a disc hub, i.e. the Nimbus D' Brake.

[danger_uni]

The disk mount on the KH frame won't work for a hub mount disk brake because it's on the right hand side. I haven't personally tried the KH frame with a hub mount disk brake and d'brake on the left side. However, I believe that it works; you'd just have a low profile disk mount on the right side of the frame that wasn't in use. Anyone else on this thread done that?

Kris

[dmacuni]

Originally Posted by danger_uni

......you'd just have a low profile disk mount on the right side of the frame that wasn't in use. Anyone else on this thread done that?

Kris

I will be running your new frame with my 29er oracle wheelset once my new disc arrives. Apparently LH calipers exist, but are as rare as hens teeth. Toyed with the idea of running a normal caliper upside down and changing the hose angle via an adjustable fitting; but instead going back to the d'brake.

Cheers,

Dan

[danger_uni]

For riders choosing to use a hub mount system, here's a photo of the D'brake on the left side of a KH frame. (photo by Roger Davies).

[bouin-bouin]

This is my set up on my KH26 and KH29 with Oracle Nimbus hub, works fine

[MadFurai]

Just realized that the KH26 I bought this past weekend from Nurse Ben has the D.brake system on the left hand side. This is a 2011 KH frame, but I can verify the setup works well.

[kb1jki]

Kris,

It's been a while since I've been on the threads -or a uni for that matter. Thanks for the acknowledgement regarding the initial disc system brought to bear with a useless provisional patent, and sluggish investment. A bit of me still wishes I beat you to market by a year on the crank design, but you were already an established manufacturer and had backing. the crank product would be more costly and heavy than your version... (excellence is the standard you bring) and wouldn't have had a KH logo or Schlumpf endorsement. The ideas were there, like the caliper mount, also available in a less expensive form as the d'brake. Alas, you and UDC are well established and for good reason.

Product design and development took far less time than gaining confidence and investment, and the time was mostly spent on the forum developing the market and interest. I guess the focus for Jeff is to maintain conventional / custom unicycle sales as just another internet unicycle shop. Sadly, it seems the vision of competing in components has since dimmed. In hind sight, I wonder if we were really all on board with bringing innovation to the sport from the get go, or just establishing an e-commerce situation. Regardless, kudos dude, and as always, beautifully executed product and design. I am more impressed with your vision as a company than your prowess riding a unicycle -and envious of both! I respect your ability and willingness to take yourself, your company, and the sport to the next level.

-Eric J

[bristlecone]

Originally Posted by kb1jki

It's been a while since I've been on ... a uni for that matter.

Say it ain't so! The last time we rode at Lynn Woods, you turned up with four unis on your roof rack! Pick one up and go

-Jamie