freestyle uni plans-any good?

mornish · August 13, 2006, 2:31pm

would the koxx-one signature frame be worth $230? or would I be better of getting the free tricks frame or a different one?

burjzyntski · August 13, 2006, 2:37pm

Why not go with the Nimbus X longneck? Nimbus is pretty well known for having strong frames, and this one is only $45 (and it’s here in the US, so you won’t be paying high s&h costs)

president_luke · August 13, 2006, 3:09pm

that wheelset is overkill, it’s also way to heavy for freestyle. If you want to do street on it the get a different frame. Also that frame has 40mm machined bearing housings and the koxx hub has 42mm bearings.

mornish · August 13, 2006, 3:49pm

in all the pics on UDC the nimbus longneck frame has tons of tire clearence. that’s why I didn’t like it.

hmm, what would be a good, strong/light freestyle rim and hubs and cranks? I really don’t know jack about square taper hubs and cranks, what does everyone recommend?

burjzyntski · August 13, 2006, 4:40pm

I wasn’t aware that a couple of centimeters of clearance would affect your riding so dramatically

president_luke · August 13, 2006, 4:48pm

It makes a huge differance to stand-up tricks.

unijesse · August 13, 2006, 5:06pm

just get a whole freestyle uni

skate4flip · August 13, 2006, 7:51pm

you can get the semcycle long neck frame from semcycle.com. thats were i got my freestyle. I dont think its too expensive, and its a great frame.

mornish · August 13, 2006, 8:41pm

um, I couldn’t find it:(

skate4flip · August 13, 2006, 8:43pm

then you didnt look hard enough

http://store.semcycle.com/product_info.php?cPath=8_10&products_id=171

(you had to click equipment on the left side from the main page.)

mornish · August 13, 2006, 8:46pm

ok, thanks. is it steel?

nickvb123 · August 14, 2006, 2:34am

how much clearance does the semcycle frame have over the tyre?

nickjb · August 14, 2006, 3:30am

My (fairly old one) has a huge amount of clearance above the tyre and hardly any at the sides. The newer ones still seem to have a lot of clearance above the tyre and more at the sides

nickvb123 · August 14, 2006, 5:08am

dam. its so hard to find a frame that hugs the tyre nicely. So glad i bought my wyganowski while they still had them

nickjb · August 14, 2006, 5:26am

What about a Koxx pink lady. There were a couple at unicon and they looked pretty funky.

mornish · August 14, 2006, 8:23am

hmm, how does this wheelset look?

also what would be a better frame, the koxx free tricks frame, or the koxx sig frame?

also, for that japanese uni, can you tell them exactly how high you want the seat stem and tire clearence and they build it?

JLthemanthelegend · August 14, 2006, 2:39pm

the unicycle i ordered didn’t allow me to custom make it, but the titanium one that costs a lot more lets you