The slotted tube can be flipped either way, depending on what you want - I put the seatpost clamp facing forwards if the bar is extended, and backwards for this setup so I can move the T-bar as close in as possible. As mentioned above, the bar width was cut narrower to 120 mm width, to avoid my knees. It also brings the brake lever closer to your fingers, making it less tiring to grab.
The photo shows a set of carbon fibre bar ends. The stock setup is good, but I like these ones too. They are too expensive to ever be part of the stock setup though.
Best is to set it up approximately what you want, and then take a hex key on the first ride and adjust it until it’s the orientation you want. Canting the bar up and the bar-ends down slightly moves the lever closer to your fingers. Also, tightening the angle adjustment and bar ends enough to stop movement, but not so much that they won’t move in a bad crash, significantly helps resistance to breakage. The setup feels stiff to use, but likely has slight elastic flex in a crash which also helps avoid brittle failure. So far I have dropped it lots of times without a problem.
Where can I get the T-Bar and seat connector? I looked on UDC and couldn’t find anything that looked like that. The only ones under seat accessories were actually whole seat mounts that connect the seat to the seat post.
I also need to figure out how to attach brakes to my nimbus that doesn’t have brake mounts.
WOW Kris and congrats. That is awesome! Can’t wait to shake your hand the next time I see you. I wonder how all the two wheelers feel being beat by you?! If you had to guess how much of it you rode in 1st gear and 2nd was it about 50/50?
Thanks. More than 50% was in 1st gear - all but the gentle climbs were in 1st, and lots of technical sections on the flats and downhills were in 1st. But interspersed with that there were some beautiful flowy singletrack sections that were good in 2nd, all doubletrack and dirt road sections from gentle climbs to descents were good in 2nd, and on the last day we rode down a twisty bermed jump trail in the Whistler bike park, and some other manicured DH trails, that were 100% rideable in 2nd.
The 2nd gear was also invaluable in that, on several days, the race started in the middle of town, and headed on roads to the trailhead. Without the 2nd gear I would have been way, way behind before the trail started.
Kris, I want to join on the bandwagon in expressing my congratulations and thanks for the inspiration.
+1 is totally inadequate, so ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++!
Nice setup also with the T-bar. I’ve been experimenting with mine for XC use, and really like it for this but have been beating the heck out of my upper legs. I’ll definitely be trying out a narrower configuration.
Pretty much as everyone has said so far… Congratulations … certainly very inspiring. From pushing the boundaries in the sport, to designing and marketing your own brand of unicycles, to competing against MTB’ers in a grueling race … simply … wow !! Nice one Kris.
Love the Uni setup, and after reading your write-ups I would love to fit a schlumpf to my 26.
This thread was fun to read, and that quote was icing.
Stories like this always remind me of that cute short-lived ‘More than human?’ television show where they determined that Kris is indeed more than human. Robot, actually. (As if there was any question…)
Fantastic event Kris, you are the man. The daily massage would almost be worth the price of admission. Maybe the early miles on the WRT had some overlapping benefit? Keep up the hard work, glad the knee is healed and performing well. Allot of the patrollers I work with claim their “repaired” knees are better than the old knee. Enjoy some rest, and get back on it!
