Assuming one could fit it with the new stronger wheel and strong cranks and
a handle and an airseat… what do y’all muniists think?
So far ‘off-road’ has been on my nice smooth mowed lawn (and, of course, a
microsecond or so on a squirrel 
), but if/when I get better at this…
Scott
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Success is goals.
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Perhaps you should remove one crank to make it a bit more chalanging? … I would love to see some video once you get good. Seriously, I would guess it would be more of a down hill, high speed activity than 26" MUNI and need some serious all-over body padding.
How about filling the tyre with water to give it more momentum?
I’ve done a few miles on semi-rough double track with a stock Coker with no problems except my hill-climbing technique. I know people race on fire roads with Cokers. I did find that rust came quickly, partly because I rode through a stream. But the riding was a lot of fun!
Re: Coker muni
We do Redbull on Cokers… although it is not really hard off road, it is
definitely off road and some really good single track as well!
Roger
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Re: Re: Coker muni
Single track, schmingle track. For those out there who read these posts and haven’t the foggiest idea what they’re talking about, here’s a Mountain Biking Glossary (complete with annoying pop up windows):
http://mountainbike.about.com/library/blglossary.htm
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Re: Coker muni
“Scott Kurland” <skurland@juggler.net> wrote:
>Assuming one could fit it with the new stronger wheel and strong cranks and
>a handle and an airseat… what do y’all muniists think?
The Coker wheel is really too small to be an adequate road unicycle
“roadster”, unless one adds Harper’s fine uni.5 hub or similar hub.
(A 48" Coker wheel would be good as a road machine though.)
With that said, I’d say that the Coker tire and the new improved rim for
it would be the basis of a really fine big wheel muni! Add the profile
hub, profile cranks, stock Coker spokes, custom frame, brakes, Miyata
seat with air, plate, GB or Reeder handle and leather cover for fast
muni action!
One should really be able to roll out of drops with this set up?
However, it remains to be seen whether the tire and rim can really hold
up to muni (abuse) use! It would definitely be a great muni/road combo
(hybrid) unicycle though and maybe a good muni (great in its wheel
size class at least).
The use of GB or reader handle would depend on the riding terrain. The
same would go for a possible substitution of Suzue hub and/or shorter
cranks, but then we would be making it more of a road uni than a muni.
Just my two bits on the subject as a big wheel nut.
Sincerely,
Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>
Re: Coker muni
“Scott Kurland” <skurland@juggler.net> wrote in message news:upc0mfbojjdp51@corp.supernews.com…
> Assuming one could fit it with the new stronger wheel and strong cranks and
> a handle and an airseat… what do y’all muniists think?
>
You could do it, but why? It would be far from ideal for Muni.
Strength really isn’t the issue, it’s wheel/tire/crank size. You can
still have lots of Muni fun on a crappy rim. Why handicap yourself
in a sport that’s already tough enough with the best equipment?
Re: Coker muni
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> “Scott Kurland” <skurland@juggler.net> wrote in message
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> > Assuming one could fit it with the new stronger wheel and strong cranks
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> > a handle and an airseat… what do y’all muniists think?
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> You could do it, but why? It would be far from ideal for Muni.
> Strength really isn’t the issue, it’s wheel/tire/crank size. You can
> still have lots of Muni fun on a crappy rim. Why handicap yourself
> in a sport that’s already tough enough with the best equipment?
>
because it’s fast and exciting and rolls over anything. Cokering down big,
not too technical offroad hills is the most fun way to hurt yourself ever
invented, you just point it downhill and keep it going till you hit the
bottom, bouncing over roots and rocks and things like they’re not there.
The downside of the coker as an offroad machine is there not being a decent
tyre for riding in mud, other than that it’s great for non-technical riding
that doesn’t involve hops or drops or incredibly steep hills.
Find some easy fire-tracks to start off with just to get used to riding over
bumpy stuff and then head for the singletrack and you definately won’t
regret it.
Joe
The Coker is fun on trails, Kurland I keep tellin’ you to throw some big ole cranks on the beast and ride the thing! Send me pictures-carjug at yahoo.com. Man you think too much.
Re: Coker muni
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> The Coker is fun on trails, Kurland I keep tellin’ you to throw some big
> ole cranks on the beast and ride the thing! Send me pictures-carjug at
> yahoo.com. Man you think too much.
Hey, I can ride the thing until my quads are frying with lactic acid and
when I dismount my knees buckle.
Unfortunately that’s only a couple of minutes, but that’s just because I’m
rehabbing my damn knee and every time I add an activity it’s sheer misery
for at least a couple of weeks - an order of magnitude longer for the Coker,
of course, because I’m learning how to unicycle on it instead of just
regaining old skills. Though I can run 3 miles in less than half an hour
and bike as long as I want and full squat a couple of hundred pounds for a
dozen reps… I dunno, unicycling’s really hard. Bigger cranks wouldn’t
help.
Pictures?!
Well, I do have a digital camera somewhere around here… I’ll ask Christa
to take some of me riding.
Everyone else calls me Scott or snake or boojum or grasshopper or… never
mind, Kurland is fine.
Fast, smooth, swoopy singletrack is fun on a Coker. Add in a narrow trail with tall grass on both sides obscuring the trail and it gets interesting. On the right trail a Coker is a blast. Turns what would be an uninteresting trail into an interesting trail.
I wouldn’t take a Coker on technical singletrack with rocks, roots, and drops. It’s not the right vehicle for that type of ride. It’s definitely not a freeride muni.
The best thing about taking the Coker on a muni ride is that I don’t have to worry about pedal strikes like I do on my 24" muni.
john “king of pedal strikes” childs
no one has mentioned the height versus head trauma yet.i remember coming very close to a couple of street signs.
on a Coker the trees around here are major “Chris Reeves” style danger…
The Coker is brilliant fun on rough but basically level ground, with the odd short hill.
It’s like this: it’s unstoppable until it loses momentum, then it’s unstartable.
On a 24 MUni, you can get out of trouble on hills and tight turns, whereas on a Coker you either avoid the trouble or you have to get off and remount.
The rim is weak, and the seat takes more damage in a UPD as it hits the ground at an steep angle, so the bumper is uselss and the cover tears. The leverage with even 6 inch (150) cranks is such that you need to keep the momentum up.
Off roading on a Coker is great fun, but it is a different game from off roading on a 24 or 26.
As for head trauma and height: the seat of a Coker is approximately 5 inches higher than the seat of a 26, and 6 inches higher than the seat of a 24, assuming identical cranks. Not significant on broken ground where undulations may well be measured in feet.