How to pick a unicycle?

General
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>The best unicycle that you can get is a custom made one. Osell’s Cycle Shop in
>Minnesota will make a unicycle to your specifications. They built me a double
>wheeled unicycle and I am very satisfied with it.

Sounds to me like you were just suckered into buying a bicycle…

Jake Cooper

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Re: How to pick a unicycle?

There actually is such a thing as a multi-wheel unicycle. Check out a few
unicycle web sites and you are sure to find a picture of one.

The wheels are arranged vertically with each wheel driving the wheel below
it. Therefore a three wheel unicycle (sounds like an oxymoron really) goes
backwards when you peddle forward and vice-versa.

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Joe Mayers <Acadian@eatel.net> wrote in article
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> Wonder if he can ride with both wheels on the ground at the same time?
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> >>…They built me a double wheeled unicycle…
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> >Sounds to me like you were just suckered into buying a bicycle…
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Re: How to pick a unicycle?

>There actually is such a thing as a multi-wheel unicycle. Check out a few
>unicycle web sites and you are sure to find a picture of one.
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>The wheels are arranged vertically with each wheel driving the wheel below
>it. Therefore a three wheel unicycle (sounds like an oxymoron really) goes
> backwards when you peddle forward and vice-versa.

Not at all. A three wheeler works like an ordinary giraffe as any multi wheelers
with an odd number of wheels do. If you want to get a multi wheeler going
forward when pedalling backward and vise versa you have to take an even number
of wheels.

Wolfgang

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Re: How to pick a unicycle?

Greetings

In message “Re: How to pick a unicycle?”, Mark wrote…
>There actually is such a thing as a multi-wheel unicycle. Check out a few
>unicycle web sites and you are sure to find a picture of one.
>
>The wheels are arranged vertically with each wheel driving the wheel below
>it. Therefore a three wheel unicycle (sounds like an oxymoron really) goes
> backwards when you peddle forward and vice-versa.

I have ridden a 13-wheel unicycle! Check out
http://www.kanji.org/jack/images/13wheel.jpg to have your mind blown.

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>Joe Mayers <Acadian@eatel.net> wrote in article
><k25y2.10535$lx.6666@news2.giganews.com>…
>> Wonder if he can ride with both wheels on the ground at the same time?
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>> >>…They built me a double wheeled unicycle…
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>> >Sounds to me like you were just suckered into buying a bicycle…
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Stay on top, Jack Halpern, IUF Vice President Website: http://www.kanji.org

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RE: How to pick a unicycle?

> I have ridden a 13-wheel unicycle! Check out
> http://www.kanji.org/jack/images/13wheel.jpg to have your mind blown.

Yeah? Well… I’ve ridden… erm… oh… OK, I guess that can’t be beat :o)

Was there A LOT of effort needed to turn the wheels? When I tried a 3 wheeler it
was pretty difficult.

Cheers,

Stu