You aren’t screwed, you just need a brake mount plus either spirit cranks or a d’brake adapter.
Add photos if you get stuck.
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I would love to ride spirit twinholes for freestyle if they didnt all have knobs for disc attachement
They exist without disc attachment: Spirit Cranks | Kris Holm Unicycles
But they’re too long for freestyle as they don’t go under 110mm.
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Isn’t zero q the standard for freestyle? I may be a bit ignorant here, but I’d be thinking that anything that makes pedaling less smooth would be detrimental.
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To add my two cents to the conversation:
If today I had to choose between a schlumpf 36" wheel with a carbon rim and an external disc brake or a schlumpf 36" wheel with an aluminum rim with a magura HS33 pad brake, I would choose the 2nd one.
In my opinion, a 36" frame with a magura HS33 pad brake mount is more schlumpf friendly than a 36" frame with an external disc brake mount.
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The external disk situation is part of the reason why I sold, and then didn’t buy another Schlumpf hub. I borrowed one to test not so long ago (admittedly not a latest gen), but the braking through the gearing really put me off.
I also slightly deformed the ISIS interface on a set of Spirits in the process of testing.
I’ve otherwise not had issues with my external disk fixed wheel though and I accelerate and brake hard (203mm disk, and I almost always do a brake coast when stopping, or a brake assisted emergency stop if I need to stop quicker).
I’m going to find it much harder to resist a new internal disk Schlumpf if/when I have the spare cash.
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Yea theres spirit without the disc mount but with twin(or tripple) hole it would just be even cooler 
theyve made them so that all the twinholes has the discmount which is a fair crowd assumption i guess but i happen to be a freestyler that like twinholes haha, im also fine with 110 and over. I get the speed from my wheel diameter 
Interesting conversation. At the end of the day, we’re a niche market so it’s probably hard for manufacturers to offer tons of options without the prices going through the roof!
There are many stories out there of people riding on chrome crappy 20" unis on all terrains because there was nothing else available (changing the tire being the only option really). So we shouldn’t complain now that we can have high quality frames with two tabs at a decent price, or cranks with disc mount. And if those extra bits are really a problem, a angle grinder should help.
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Don’t use a grit disc on aluminium. It gets stuck between the grit particles, heats, expands and can split the disc.
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I don’t feel bad about offering my ONE4ALL unicycle forks with two brake mounts. However, it is a Magura mount and disc.
Switzerland is a small country and many unicyclists still buy abroad. So I have a very small clientele.
Since I had a minimum order of 100 forks per size, I was faced with the choice of having 200 forks produced per size or 100 with both sockets.
In the end it’s good for me as a dealer and for the buyer: If he wants to configure a unicycle, he has free choice of hubs with the same fork.
Sure, many are now smiling at the Magura rim brakes, they are considered outdated. I still enjoy riding with them. If you have found the right rim - brake pad combination and can grip the brake lever well, they are as good as entry-level disc brakes. There is also eg. by BBB brake pads the dirt / water repellency. I think many have not tested enough and only tried the black Magura brake pad. You can also experiment with brake lever holders. I’ve come to the conclusion that a T-shaped mount is much better than this spaceship mount.
Brake mounts are not heavy and are relatively inexpensive when welded in series. You’d better save the weight on the rim, tire and tube. Some factory MUni have a cheap Duro tube with 500g weight. You can forget the few grams of brake sockets.
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