Attached is a couple photos of a new 29" unicycle available from Bedford Unicycles.
It has a bunch of things to look for when you are viewing the pictures.
Check out the Velo seat colour combo
Check out the CARBON FIBER rim. It has a glue on tire.
This unicycle will come with a hand built Cr-Mo racing frame and other items not yet pictured.
The new frame will be ready before the NAUCC.
It will also have a Carbon Fiber rail seat post for the convention. It will be available to test ride for anyone wanting to try it. The cranks will be alloy by then as well.
The frame is being made by Malcolm at Biseagal.
He is as excited as I am with this project.
The Bedford custom MUni frames will be next !
There are also a few pictures of some Bedford BC wheels as well and some other unicycles.
The Red BC wheel is Dan Heaton’s and I’m sure you will see it again in Universe II.
That looks beautiful. I still can’t get over those BC wheels…I’ll have to get one some day. The 29" looks like it’s sticking up it’s nose at it’s competition.
It looks like a nice 700c unicycle. For racing on tracks at least, wouldn’t want to ride anything that narrow on proper roads, you’d be slower than someone with a fatter tyre on all but the best surfaces.
But it isn’t a 29" unicycle, I bet you anything that you can’t put any tyre sold as 29 inch on that rim, at least without massive tyre wobble. Those rims are recommended for 23mm clincher tyre / 21mm tubular, so a 53mm 29" tyre is unlikely to perform well.
If its the tubular version, then you’re also stuck with a very small selection of tyres and nothing big enough for road touring or road riding anywhere other than well surfaced roads in cities.
All in all, if people get seriously into racing 700c unicycles on tracks, this looks lovely and really shiny, but for anything else it’d be better off with a mavic touring rim and even racing the pimpy rim isn’t likely to help that much at unicycle speeds.
That 700c machine is pure track. It’s the kind of thing we should be racing on. Riding 24" wheels for racing? Not any more!
If I could get more people interested, we could get a 700c category started, that would eventually replace 24" at the expert level. I imagine we would retain racing on more common sized wheels for people to still participate if they don’t have specialized equipment, so 24-inchers need not worry. Unless you want to be faster.
Cool John, I’d love to have some fun races on 29’ers. Mine’s not the carbon fibre version but as I tear along solo on my commutes home from school, I just know that I’m nearing the speed of light!
Hey, how about giving us a 42 or a 48 with a glue on pneumatic tire? This is not a joke; heck, we might even buy the thing if the price is 350 Dollars American. carjug, who gives more than he should to unicycle dot com.
