Coker's Penny-Farthing?

Unicycles and Equipment
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Who here has one of these suckers?http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=439
What gear ratio on a singlespeed 26" bike would this relate to?

I can see me and my wife owning a pair of these when I’m outta college!

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Re: Coker’s Penny-Farthing?

small,like a grany gear…to be more accurate it would be like a 32 front chainring and a 23 in the back .on a 26 inch wheel

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RE: Coker’s Penny-Farthing?

> Who here has one of these
> suckers?http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=439
> What gear ratio on a singlespeed 26" bike would this relate to?

I think one way of describing relative gears on a bike is to offer the
number of “gear inches.” Without looking this up, I believe it refers to the
equivalent size of a wheel, making one revolution with a turn of the pedals.
In other words, that bike would be equivalent to a 36" gear. Relatively
slow, as bikes go. But speed is not the reason to ride one of those.

Stay on top,
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
jfoss@unicycling.com

“It takes four times the man to ride twice the half the bike.” - Scott
Kurland, on Coker unicycles

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Re: Coker’s Penny-Farthing?

>Who here has one of these
>suckers?http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=439
>What gear ratio on a singlespeed 26" bike would this relate to?
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>I can see me and my wife owning a pair of these when I’m outta college!
>
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>Sofa

I have one. It’s a load of fun (two together are probably even more so) and
gets a lot of attention. Its main drawbacks are some rather weak components;
the brakes are kind of lame and I found the original seat rather uncomfortable.
Mine was also delivered with a faulty hub; Unicycle.com exchanged the whole
wheel for me at no charge. Of course it’s not a really high-priced item either.
Mine is in the shop having a new front hub spoked in; I sort of abused mine by
riding it hard and constantly instead of my “normal” bike for a whole summer,
the kind of use for which it probably is not designed. Learn to pull
alternately on the bars to compensate for your pedaling (like riding a giant
tricycle), plan to be delayed by people asking you questions about your weird
bike, lean back a bit when you brake, and don’t expect to get anywhere fast.

I have considered putting a Coker uni wheel on the thing to make it a
fixed-crank machine instead of a free-wheeler; the fork would have to be
squeezed a bit for the narrower hub. I think it uses the same bearings.

  • Joe
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JOE

I HAVE A cOKER UNICYCLE AND I CAN SAY THAT I WOULD GLADLY TRADE YOU opps.caps were on ,anyway i would gladly trade your coker two wheeler for my one wheeler.