Hey, New to the forums! 
Okay, so i’ve been looking for a while but can’t find a tutorial on how to make a simple rack that attaches to my bike to hold my unicycle. I’m comfident in riding but getting to places on a unicycle isn’t the most efficient way of travelling. So if anyone knows of a tutorial, or can give me intructions on how to build a rack for my bike, please post! Oh and i’ve seen the motorcycle one but the design doesnt work for my bike.
Cheers.
Can you post what type of bike and what size unicycle.Does the bike have rack lugs already.
john
I bet there is a way to attach the seat of your uni to a normal rack for a bike and let it roll behind like a trailer. Hmmm now you have me thinking of ways to bike to the mountains with my Muni instead of driving.
I tried various configurations of pulling my 26er muni without success. It seems that unless the saddle is fixed firmly (e.g., via a seatpost-seatpost connector rod), it just flops around.
Instead, I use a Burley flatbed trailer with a cardboard box to elevate the muni above the level of the top of the trailer’s wheels. I toss all my gear into the box first, then strap the muni on using the trailer’s straps. I regularly ride 8+ miles to trailheads this way, in traffic, without any problems. If the box ever wears out, I’ll replace it with a more durable plastic bin.
I realize that buying a trailer for this purpose is a bit much, but I already had one for grocery shopping and general hauling.
Good idea, I should look into some trailers for my long haul trucker, I can bring a dog into my new office, so when I get a dog it would be cool to haul him along in the trailer as well to work.
I used my Yak Bob (http://www.bobgear.com/trailers/trailer.php?product_id=10) trailer to haul my 24" muni the other day. It works fairly well, though securing the uni takes work with a small trailer like the Yak.
I usually ride to the trailhead (~3 miles), but I found taking the trailer to be immensely better. You arrive fresh and can go all out without having to save energy (and crotch ‘endurance’) for riding back home.
The problem I see with attaching a muni to a bike directly is mostly its size. A bike doesn’t have many places that a third wheel can be attached without getting in the way. It might be possible to mount it on the rear rack (wheel laid flat horizontally across the top of the rack) but you’d almost definetly have to take off the seatpost.
Let us know if you find a method that works!
A flat rider had a nice setup for carrying his 20" unicycle on here. I forget his name and how though…
Some sort of strap on both frames with the wheel coming out the back horizontally.
i usually hook one crank over one end of the handlebar, then hold the seat post and other handle grip together. Its a bit awkward, you can use the brakes, and going fast probably isn’t a good idea either. It worked for a while though.
I have also taken the pedals and frame off and then cable tied the wheel to the side of the storage rack on the back of the bike, and then attached the frame to the other side and chucked the pedals, tools, wire cutters and a hand full of cable ties in my bag. That works a treat, although a little bulky and requires a bit of work putting the uni back together (especially is it has brakes to put back on too)
When I was learning on my 20" Torker and biking 5 miles to the Amtrak station, I just used a couple bungee cords to secure the Torker to my rack. The bungee cords were long (I think one was 1.5’ and one was 2.5’, unstretched), and I wrapped them around lots of places on the uni.
I have a homemade post toward the back of my rack, which helped. It’s about 3" high, and made by drilling a hole in the platform on my Planet Bike rack, and using a bolt, nut, metal washers, garden hose washers, and a short bit of copper pipe. What you’d see looking at it top to bottom would be bolt head, (rubber) hose washer (for noise reduction/shock absorption), three inches of copper pipe (sheathing the bolt), metal washer, rack platform, metal washer, rubber washer, nut. Of course, I used loctite to keep it fastened. It is heavy because of the 1/2" diameter 3.5" steel bolt, but its utility is worth it. In case you’re wondering, I worked at a hardware store, so these parts were convenient for me. Not everyone has a 3" length of copper pipe laying around.
So I put the wheel on top of the rack and put the frame against the post, then bungee corded the heck out of it. The frame would still travel a little while riding, but it was manageable.
I’ve carried another bike on my bike before, when I had a milkcrate (non-stolen!) on my rack. I got as many looks with a bike on a bike as I do on a uni. I guess people aren’t used to seeing bike-on-bike action! No one in front of me could see the uni when it was on my bike, though. Anyway, I think I would be able to just barely manage my KH24 if I had the milkcrate on my rack, by setting the wheel on top of the crate horizontally with a crank suspended in the crate, and the frame pointing behind me. You could take the seatpost and saddle off, too, if you have such a milkcrate to put it in. You could put it in saddle-side down, then it could stick up through the spokes if the spokes aren’t too close together.
Again, bungee the heck out of it–hook the bungee to the rack (or to itself after going around the rack or the wheel), then stretch and wrap, stretch and wrap, stretch and wrap…and hook. Wiggle your uni throughout to see where it’s loose, and try to bungee it down at that point. It’s not fun to have a massive object swaying on the back of your bike, especially if its center of gravity is high.
For any long distance (greater than 5 miles), I’d have to use my bike trailer (designed to carry a dog). Then it’d probably be easy up to a 29", but a 36" uni might require a custom trailer. But at that point, you’d be hauling a uni built for speed and distance, so that’d only make sense if you wanted both vehicles at your destination. And I’m done. :o
Hey John,
Unicycle is just a basic 20"
I’m not too sure what kind of bike it is… I would check but I don’t have it here.
I’m probably gonna get some bungee cord off eBay and inprovise 
Thanks for everyones help!
bike with uni
I’ve done it with my unicycle (20 in) strapped to my back before. I rigged up a harness and took the cranks off. The cranks I threw in my basket and the uni rode on my back. I wouldn’t suggest it for very long distance riding though.
When visiting my Mom in Boston, I strapped my Muni to the rack on her bike, secured w/ a bungee chord. It was pretty awkward to ride, mainly, I think, to my tall seat height. I’ve thought of getting a post diameter adapter and using my Muni seat and post on the bike, then switching it back at the trail. That would make fitting it on the rack a bit easier I think.
While learning I strapped my learner to my expedition backpack (2,000 cu in) and secured the frame w/ a velcro strap, while I rode my bike to my practice spot. That worked well, but I think if I had the size & weight of a Muni, it would wear me out a bit (but not nearly as much as uniiing & get there a lot faster).
A couple of times I broke my Muni on the trail, so I strapped it to my Camelback Hawg and held the frame/seat to keep it from flopping around and hiked out. It worked but it would have been nice to have a way to secure the frame. It was a lot less comfortable than my expedition backpack.
You could build a U shape pipe rack and set it up aft of your bike seat post secured to and sideways to the rear wheel in a way where the unicycle hub is right above the top of the rear wheel. The bottom of the U shape rack is secured to the rear bike wheel. The unicycle wheel is secured at the bottom of the U shape rack and the U side closer to the bike wheel is longer so the unicycle seat post can be secured to that longer part of the U shape rack.
Hope you get the idea.
Like having the unicycle wheel halfway to the rear bike wheel. If you make it double, you can even carry two unicycles, one each side.
Just an idea.
Cheers
The video that I was talking about is right there. Strapped on unicycle is at the end.