Alas, a Decent Hub

Unicycles and Equipment
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I just got back from a ride on my 26" trail monster, now with the
Poznanter/Profile hub and crankset installed. This is one BEEFY setup!-- the
first of its kind available as an aftermarket product. I’ve been waiting for
months while this hub was in development. Many thanks to David Poznanter,
Profile Racing, and whoever else aided in producing it. I expect to get many
years’ use out of this one, rather than just a few weeks like with standard
hubs. Ride On!!!

Chris Reeder

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Does suspension on a uni protect the hub? or do you always land with your feet
on the pedals. If you had serious suspension travel would you stay in your seat?

Tom

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Hi,

Suspension hubs don’t affect loading of the hub. They do, however, offer a
couple of major benefits:

  1. If you are on easy but bumpy terrain, you can sit down with much more comfort
    than the best made airseat could ever offer by itself.

  2. They offer significant advantage for comfort on technical downhill with lots
    of rolling drops, and limited advantage in trials, where drops are often more
    controlled and may be more hopping oriented. The former case is because you
    may not always land every drop with the pedals near the power position
    (horizontal), especially when the drops are occurring more frequently than
    one pedal revolution apart. In hopping drops, or big rolling drops, most of
    the shock absorbency comes from rolling out of the drop and hinging the frame
    backwards (which occurs naturally as you fold forwards with your upper body).
    In this case, the shock seatpost “rounds out” the transition between landing
    and folding forwards with your upper body, increasing comfort. In a nutshell,
    a shock seatpost is really great for technical downhill, but not really that
    important for trials.

Hope that helps,

Kris Holm.

BTW, for those of you that didn’t hear this, a 9 minute clip of Universe was
shown at the Tube Film Festival in San Francisco, and Dan Heaton just mentioned
to me that it recieved the 3rd most audience votes out of 25 films!

— Clifford Elmore <CliffElmore@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Does suspension on a uni protect the hub? or do you always land with your
> feet on the pedals. If you had serious suspension travel would you stay in
> your seat?
>
> Tom

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> BTW, for those of you that didn’t hear this, a 9 minute clip of Universe was
> shown at the Tube Film Festival in San Francisco, and Dan Heaton just
> mentioned to me that it recieved the 3rd most audience votes out of 25 films!

Way to go Dan!!! I did a search –

see it streaming! http://features.expn.go.com/expn/tube/view.html#

Enjoy, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone http://www.unicycling.com

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by Jacquie)

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“Chris Reeder” <reed8990@uidaho.edu> wrote in message
news:39BF2ED9.F9ACF05A@uidaho.edu…
>
> I just got back from a ride on my 26" trail monster, now with the
> Poznanter/Profile hub and crankset installed. This is one BEEFY setup!-- the
> first of its kind available as an aftermarket product. I’ve been waiting for
> months while this hub was in development. Many thanks to David Poznanter,
> Profile Racing, and whoever else aided in producing it. I expect to get many
> years’ use out of this one, rather than just a few weeks like with standard
> hubs. Ride On!!!
>
Have you ever tried and broken a Suzue hub?

Arthur Doerksen

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Cool. I also liked the one on the Skateboard long jump competition…

—Nathan

“John Foss” <john_foss@asinet.com> wrote in message
news:631B3F1D150FD3118E4D00A0C9EC1BDA481137@SERVER…
> > BTW, for those of you that didn’t hear this, a 9 minute clip of Universe was
> > shown at the Tube Film Festival in San Francisco, and Dan Heaton just
> > mentioned to me that it recieved the 3rd most audience votes out of 25
> > films!
>
> Way to go Dan!!! I did a search –
>
> see it streaming! http://features.expn.go.com/expn/tube/view.html#

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Arthur Doerksen wrote:

> Have you ever tried and broken a Suzue hub?
>
> Arthur Doerksen

Yes. The Suzue hub is the best standard hub I’ve ever used. It lasted me one day
short of six weeks. I used it with 175mm Black Widows, I weigh 150 lbs, and my
biggest drops are a little higher than the unicycle is tall.

Chris Reeder