Post your home made unicycle upgrades.

unijesse · January 24, 2006, 4:14pm

an easy way to get the pattern for a seat cover is to take of your cover, rip the seams, trace onto some other fabric, cut and sew.

Chrashing · January 26, 2006, 5:44am

A simple modification is to replace the nuts on the KH and like seats with the nuts that have the nylon locking insert. This way they never loosen.

Brian_MacKenzie · January 26, 2006, 12:44pm

also works for the bearing holder bolts, they will bend slightly, never too much to render unusable, but they will never snap like the ones that come on them.

down side is you need two wrenches to tighten or loosen
up side is that every single time you tighten or loosen them, you will be in the comfort of your own house

habbywall · January 26, 2006, 1:51pm

how long did that seat cover last?

lleberg · January 26, 2006, 2:34pm

I tried it, and it was really hard to do, since the fabric has stretched quite a bit! In all sorts of directions.

trials_uni · January 26, 2006, 2:36pm

i just thought of this but for trials and pedal grabs put some tire rubber on your grabbinh pedal much like a grind plate but for grabbing not slipping.

manon1wheel · January 26, 2006, 7:41pm

not really a good idea… but it might work for what your doing

James_Potter · February 11, 2006, 10:11am

I’ve had it for a few months and I’m still using it (:

skrobo · September 30, 2009, 2:46pm

i had one on my uni for a good while, probably 4 or 5 months, the cover everyone is freaking out about is some sort of stretchy material, and one piece… its not extremely hard to make a cover from 1 piece of material.

lobbybopster · September 30, 2009, 7:05pm

Home Made Upgrade

For when your bashing offroad and don’t want an untrue wheel to hang-up on your brake
I give you-----
-----the Disc Brake

Super_G · September 30, 2009, 9:34pm

Hey lobbybopster, how about a picture of the whole uni? It looks like quite the conversation piece!

evil-nick · September 30, 2009, 10:21pm

Yah, that looks pretty bada55… Like a cyberpunk frame

L8BRKR · September 30, 2009, 10:21pm

I had a friend of mine weld piping to make a seat post with a T-bar attached to it.
Why? Because I got into unicycling because I love the wheelie feeling and also this was supposed to make me a better wheelie rider.

EDIT: I am thinking of shortening the T-bar but I’m not sure how short I should go…also thinking of making the handlebars more narrow.
Just not sure what I can/should do with that T-bar set up.
I don’t know (at this point) if it would be a good platform to use for my 28" in terms of something that is closer to the other handlebars that are more common.

hobo_chuck · September 30, 2009, 10:24pm

I did the opposite and got rid of the annoying nylon nut + bolt setup in exchange for the usual hex bolts with threads in the bearing holder.

maestro8 · October 1, 2009, 10:57am

Shorter?

You don’t ever get spam email for shortening your “male appendage”… why would you want anything shorter?

I say make it longer.

Seriously, it depends on what you want to do with that unicycle. If you want to make it into a touring uni, then you will want to shorten it and narrow down the handlebars - the goal there is to have a handle that won’t kill you if you UPD off the front of the unicycle, but still have enough handle that you can use it to take some of the weight off of your crotch.

liddle-peter · October 1, 2009, 11:30am

I give you-----
-----the Disc Brake
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kay, iv’e seen that before, but cant figure summin out… is that a unicycle hub? if so how does the disk brake fit on,
or is that a normal bike hub… if so… how do the cranks attach?

liddle-peter · October 1, 2009, 11:37am

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3520719&id=770257888&op=1&view=global&subj=770257888

attention to the home made frame covers, theyr’e lizard skin fork covers, with a length of hosepipe underneath doing a brilliant job of prtecting my frame XD

lobbybopster · October 1, 2009, 5:31pm

Disc Hub

kay, iv’e seen that before, but cant figure summin out… is that a unicycle hub? if so how does the disk brake fit on,
or is that a normal bike hub… if so… how do the cranks attach?
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I thought this thread was about home-made uni stuff?

   The entire hub is home-made to accept a disc, just like a normal ISIS bike hub. It's that simple!

Oh Yeah, Super G, Check out the suspension uni thread or CMW 2008 for many complete pictures.

L8BRKR · October 1, 2009, 8:55pm

Or use this seat post on another uni. I also have a 28."

The thing is…I can’t have stuff welded for free everyday, so I am wondering about the value or potential I have for it.
Yeah, I think I am with you on that. With it long, it is still safe because when you jump off because you are safely between the handlebars and the seat and still have room in between them. If shorter, the handlebars will trip you up–unless they are narrower and not as protruding outwards.
Now it is just a matter of trying to fab it that way (if I choose to do that).
Fabbing is half the fun.

lobbybopster · October 10, 2009, 10:49pm

suspension

OK this is how we start. Start with a cheap eBay GT LTS frame ($40/$50)Cut, cut, cut! Then lay it out. This is a little different than my 24" x 3" muni, I’m going to try a 26" street version. I’ll post again after a little tack weld and test.