I’d like to thank both Darren Bedford and John and Amy Drummond for providing much needed services and products to me and to many others at NAUCC (and elsewhere, of course).
Bedford Unicycles and UDC are both class outfits and provided help to many of us during the conference in many different ways. Both provided me and others with service without charging for it. Technical advice and assistance just poured from them. Both provided products on the honor system in order to help people get ready for events, and let us return to pay them later. (In both cases, I had to find them to pay them.) I’m thankful we have two such complementary firms with ultra high integrity.
The unicycling community benefits enormously from both.
If you liv in Toronto, why don’t you call Darren, to make sure that he’s at the shop, and then take a ride down to see him. He’ll show you all of his unis and talk to you about which uni will suit you best. I’m pretty sure that there are uni clubs that he is a part of too. You could meet him there and see many of his unis. Either way, you’d be a fool not to get one from him if you liv in Toronto. I liv in Ottawa, and i have bought 2 unis from him in under a year. Both are awesome. I have no regrets.
Darren is the President of the Toronto Unicyclists and the club meets every thursday night. This week it is at the Cordella school where there will be a news camera crew there to video the members playing “unicycle hockey”.
You can find out how to get there by going to the website at torontounicylists.ca.
If you come out you will be able to see almost every style of uni that Darren sells. And if your interested in one, you can make an appointment to go to his shop or he will deliver one to you personally at almost any club meeting.
The greatest advantage of Darren’s uni’s are the very high quality at a very reasonable cost, and the fact that you don’t have to pay the duty to import one from out of the country. That can add 50 to 100% to the price of your uni. (I know this personally)
If you live in Canada, the only reason not to buy from Darren would be if you wanted that very rare part that he does not carry, and I personally can’t think of what that might be, cause he can get almost anything uni wise!
That was my experience as well, and that is rare indeed. They definitely set the standard high, and not many companies are going to match that level of service and commitment to the unicycle community.
pictures? anyone?
also i was planing on getting a bedford as my second unicycle im interested in trials should i spend the 700 bucks on the hard core trials uni?
Bedford DEFINITELY need a website, with prices, pics and specs of their unis. That’s basically the main reason I bought off UDC and not them. Make a website!!!
I found this picture of the Bedford freestyle uni on his webshots pic site, and it looks like the frame is terrible for freestyle! Wouldn’t such a good craftsman know that he should have the frame closer to the tire? Does he have better frames for freestyle?
