G’day folks, please bear with me momentarily. I know very little about unicycles, but my 16 year old son is keen to try & build one from his large collection of bicycle parts. As far as he can tell this should be possible, perhaps with the exception of having to buy a specific unicycle hub/crank. Could anyone here either supply us with basic plans or maybe tell us where to find them on the web. We’re both pretty handy with Oxy & arc welding, although my spannering is more commonly on old british motorcycles.
I’d also be interested in any leads as to where to find unicycle parts in Australia, if anyone knows.
Thanks
Well, ive just succsessfully built a trials unicycle, as i broke my other one.
I made the frame from cromolly tubing i bought at a “Custom Car racing Place” that sells lots of diameter tubing to make custom sprint cars. cost me about 30bucks for the amount of tubing to make one uni. and about 10 bucks for metal plate for the cross brace.
I bought the tyre and wheel from a bike store and ordered the hub seperatly from unicycle.com. In Aus, you can buy a standard unicycle hub from juggleart in melbourne. www.juggleart.com
to make a uni you will need
4 bearing holders, 2 to weld to the frame and 2 to clamp (20 bucks)
A uni seat.
Bearings to go with a hub.
The rest you can get from a bike store.
But believe me, unless your building a custom trials uni or muni or something similar, its cheaper to buy one.
If you want more details dont hesitate to ask, ill be getting pics up on the net soon!
I have the pictures of my unicycle builds up on the web already. The site
also has a bit of a description on what I did to build them. Check out the
projectFB and projectMuni pages on my site. Dont forget there is a big link
theat takes you to page 2 at the bottom of the page.
If you need any more help, feel free to email me at the link on the site.
Leo
Sydney, Australia
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> G’day folks, please bear with me momentarily. I know very little about
> unicycles, but my 16 year old son is keen to try & build one from his
> large collection of bicycle parts. As far as he can tell this should be
> possible, perhaps with the exception of having to buy a specific
> unicycle hub/crank. Could anyone here either supply us with basic plans
> or maybe tell us where to find them on the web. We’re both pretty handy
> with Oxy & arc welding, although my spannering is more commonly on old
> british motorcycles.
> I’d also be interested in any leads as to where to find unicycle parts
> in Australia, if anyone knows.
> Thanks
>
> Regards
> Ian
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