gear shift

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Hello everybody!

A problem came up some days ago and I was thinking a lot about it. But there is
no solution yet. Perhaps anyone has an idea (or has even solved) my little
mess: how can I built a gear shift for a unicycle. Traveling at a speed of 7 to
8 miles per hour is a nice thing, but riding at 20 or even more miles per hour
would be an exciting experience too. Of course I can include a chain and make
my uni faster, but then riding at slow speed is almost impossible. If I include
a standard gear shift, I loos the ability of pedaling backward, and that would
be a pitty. If anybody has a gear shift or knows how to build it, so that
pedaling backwards is still possible, please contact me. Perhaps there is a
factory that builts these things as standard components? I can’t emagine that,
but miracles occur…

Bye, Wolfgang

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Re: gear shift

Wolfgang Stroess wrote:

>Traveling at a speed of 7 to 8 miles per hour is a nice thing, but riding at 20
>or even more miles per hour would be an exciting experience too.

A gear shift sounds like a good solution. However, a giraffe geared up from 24"
to just 36" is very difficult to ride. A gear shift will not make the high gear
any easier to ride in.

I would strongly recommend a 40"-60" big wheel standard unicycle without any
gear shift as the only way to reliably and easily travel 20 or more miles per
hour on a unicycle (for long rides).

Perhaps someone can design a gear shift for a standard rather than
giraffe unicycle.

On One Wheel,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com