Made 3 steps last night, tried four today. Ouch.
My ankle will heal, nothing too bad there.
the crank arm is twisted, and the cotter pins have losened and are slipping a lot, even though I’ve been been hammering them in every day or so. My ankle is hurt because I slipped off the pedal because the arm bent.
I don’t get it.
I just got these new crank arms last week. The pins I got from uni.com didn’t work at all–they were too small, but the old pins still worked fine. I hammered them in, and they were loose again within a day or so.
I keep having to hammer them in–I’m I’m hammering them in hard, pounding them like a sweedish supermodel, and they keep getting loose–except that now, they pretty much flush with the crank, so I can’t hammer them in any further.
So, I guess it’s time for some major upgrades. My uni is an old schwinn 24", with a new KH saddle, seat post, and tire.
I obviously need new cranks, but I’m done with cotter pins. I’m only doing drops of about 6 to 10 inches right now, but I’d like to get better. I hear lots of complaints about cotterless cranks slipping, but splined are really expensive.
I was thinking about getting the uni.com hub ( http://unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=738 ) for my uni–anyone know if that will fit on it? Then latter on down the road, I’d change the rim to a 36 spoke rim.
Or would it be a lot better to go for a KH hub with KH crank arms? I don’t really know if I can afford that, but it it really is much better, I might do it. It seems like it’s probably overkill for what I’m doing - hopping down stairs and over things. I weigh about 150 lbs.
I know I should really probably buy a new unicycle instead, but unfortunatley, that would basically mean not unicycling for several months until I got enough money to do that.
EDIT: sorry about the repeat posts–my internet connection (public computer, sucks) kept telling me it wasn’t working…