Little do these guys know how in fact unsilly this is and how much I hoped it was real.
While I can chuckle with the next person on this - it’s also an annoying April fools joke as the people creating it clearly have zero idea of the actual area or topic.
If they knew about Schlumpfs and geared riding perhaps it wouldn’t have been such “funny” item.
The geared giraffe is cool and all, but it would be annoying to get on it, and really hard to go fast on it, due to aerodynamics. Also, it would be hella dangerous for muni, which is what it seems designed for.
And the unipacking setup looks cool, but there is so much wasted space (and no brake)
…and it‘s only suited for those who can confidently ride one foot. Nothing for mere mortals.
Have a look at the brake disk (a disk but no brake, by the way; but I have a uni like that, too ) and the thought that this could be some AI generated content creeps inevitably to your mind. Same, if you realise that the one crank is mounted between the hub and the frame …really difficult to move that pedal past the frame.
EDIT: ok, the crank is probably mounted correctly - hard to see. But the spokeholes are drilled freestyle. Someone should have AI design a unicycle from scratch, then have it produced, and look how well the end result works. Repeat that every year or so and have people bet how many tries it takes until the result is functional.
It would be interesting to see the AI generated individual that the Breezer is intended for (with a tenuous shout-out to another current thread discussing inseam length…) – assuming it is a 20" wheel and say, 150mm cranks (since they look quite long), a rough guess would be that they would need to have an inseam length of at least 40" to ride that beast with the saddle where it is…
Now, according to the fount of knowledge that is Google and the world-wide-web, and assuming ‘normal’ proportions, the average height-to-inseam ratio is 2.2:1, which would put said individual at around 88" tall, or 7’ 4" (~2.24m) – that of course is assuming they have ordinary shoes and not a pair of stilts or extreme-platform Five-Tens (which I am sure generative AI could also sprit into existence if required). So basically they’d be quite a striking individual (and quite talented to boot if they can also mount that thing with the bags in the way and ride it one footed).
I hope they have a YouTube channel, and I’ll also be signing up for their top-level Patreon… it will be worth the money.
The lack of research on the geared giraffe is what’s most annoying to me lol.
“Ok, the only way that we can put gears on a unicycle is to separate the cranks and the wheel like on a bike.”
The Pack-Wheel has potential. UDC and KH, ya’ll should start looking into something like this lol.
I don’t see why the second one is so undoable. If the bags are a bit further apart and give space for the rotation and they aren’t too heavily loaded, it should be doable to ride. When you wear a backpack on your back, you are basically also out of balance and have to adjust your upper body. Isn’t that the same with having a front and back bag. The brake could be nice, but do you really need it on a 20", which is what it looks like.
When you zoom in, the brake disc doesn’t look very round. It looks more like wiring or something.
If you‘re tall enough…
Mounting and dismounting would be sketchy, UPDing would most likely end in a fall.
Moving the bags more to the front and rear, respectively, would make it harder to corner such a beast. To be fair, since it‘s a touring uni that might not be a big issue.
Yup, that‘s what I meant when I wrote: Have a look at the brake disk (a disk but no brake, by the way; but I have a uni like that, too ) and the thought that this could be some AI generated content creeps inevitably to your mind.
I have that on my Nimbus 29". At some point the brake didn’t slide so smoothly over the disc anymore. I think it is bent because of the many UPDs in the past 10 years, so I took off the brake and have been riding without it since. It doesn’t feel bent while riding and I live in a flat part in the world. No need for brakes really.
In my case it‘s because I‘m reluctant to machine the d‘brake in order for it to accept a Schlumpf hub. For a short period the uni was equipped with a different wheel and a working brake.
Everyday riding is possible without a brake for me, but I miss it every now and then. And I have to take the 36er (or the 26er fatty) for hill climbing, or more precisely: for riding down again. That‘s not exactly the best solution.
Im sure that when you ride your brake-less uni, you can keep the 26 fatty on your back. It will make for a very comfy ride Im sure. You can like twist in the air and flip over to the 26" with the brake when you want to go downhill and then once you’re down, hop in the air again and flip back onto your other uni Easy peasy - please make a video of it and show us.