Brief go on a 12 inch uni

[keg]

@Danny Colyer

Her birthday is next weekend, so she hasn’t seen it yet. Unfortunately,
even if I shorten the seatpost (which will allow me to get the seat
about an inch lower) and screw wooden blocks to the pedals, her legs
still won’t be long enough to ride it yet

The frame looks very long, the height problem can easily be resolved with the aid of a hacksaw but it might damage you taping

I did this to a 16" frame so my kids could reach the peddles at about that age. Although as it was s/h so I didn’t feel so guilty cutting it.

Keith

[thieum]

@Mikefule

The 12 was different enough to be a whole new experience. 1/3 the size of a Coker!

My 2 cent :
Size of a 12 inch uni = Pi*(12/2)^2=113 sqin
Size of a 36 inch uni = Pi*(36/2)^2=1017 sqin
A 12 incher is 1/9 the size of a coker (its radius is a third)

Smarty pants Matayo

[GILD]

@thieum

My 2 cent :
Size of a 12 inch uni = Pi*(12/2)^2=113 sqin
Size of a 36 inch uni = Pi*(36/2)^2=1017 sqin
A 12 incher is 1/9 the size of a coker (its radius is a third)

Smarty pants Matayo

That’s what I figured when I saw the original comment but I just didn’t have the maths to back it up.

Danny, that is one seriously pimped 12" uni!
Purple was my favourite colour as a kid. I would’ve platzed at that uni.
Into my teens, the color-preference changed to blue.

[system]

Re: Brief go on a 12 inch uni

keg wrote:
> The frame looks very long, the height problem can easily be resolved
> with the aid of a hacksaw but it might damage you taping
>
> I did this to a 16" frame so my kids could reach the peddles at about
> that age. Although as it was s/h so I didn’t feel so guilty cutting it.

I started looking seriously at 12" unicycles in the run up to Christmas
2004. Jenny was only 2 then, but she wanted a unicycle. Roger took
measurements and offered to cut a frame down for me, but in the end I
decided to wait a bit longer rather than get a frame that (even cut
down) would have been too big.

Now her legs should be long enough for a cut down frame, but I’d really
rather not do it. Hopefully she’ll at least be able to sit on the
saddle, holding onto a wall or my hand, with the cranks horizontal,
which should be enough to start getting a feel for the balance of a
unicycle.

In the meantime, she’s got her trike, she’s starting to get a feel for
two wheels and by the summer her legs should hopefully be long enough
for the trailerbike that’s been sitting in my workshop for the last
couple of years.

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