I know the image quality is poor enough to have me sent to prison, but that will make the game all the more fun! It has a KHS sticker on it, but that may have been stuck on by the previous owner (my brother). When I get ahold of a better quality camera, I will take a picture of the axle and cranks and tweaked cotter pins so maybe you gurus can tell me why my unicycle is eating cotter pins… thanks!
Hmm. Cottered cranks, Lolipop bearings, I’d have to say it is definately a P.O.S. unicycle.
Not a KH.
-David Kaplan
no way,anything with a flat crown is not a P.O.S.
No, no, no… I didn’t say KH sticker, I said KHS… the unicycle is at the very least 10 years old. KHS currently only makes high-end mountain two-wheelers… perhaps they used to make more useful vehicles (like unicycles).
Ah yes, very true. In that case, i’ll say its a N.Q.A.P.O.S.
By KHS i thought you neant Kris Holm Series.
-David Kaplan
I had similar problems with the cotter pins on the two Schwinn unicycles that I learned on. Cotter pins are made of soft metal and they are hard to get tight. When the get loose they eat the cotter pin. I can remember regularly going to the bike shop to buy new cotter pins.
Sheldon Brown has some articles that describe how to install cotter pins. Wish I knew about that stuff back when I had my old Schwinns.
His info on filing the flats on the cotter pins to get a better fit sounds like it might help.
I wonder if greasing the cotter pin would help it fit better? Maybe. But I don’t know if grease would just end up making the situation worse.
Good luck.
john_childs
RE: Identify this unicycle!
> I know the image quality is poor enough to have me sent to prison, but
> that will make the game all the more fun! It has a KHS sticker on it,
> but that may have been stuck on by the previous owner (my brother).
Ow my eyes. Make sure your new camera offers a “focus” feature 
Not lolipop bearings; they look like Miyata bearings. But Miyata has not
made cottered since the 70’s, maybe before they started shipping them here.
It looks like one of the Chinese Miyata copies I saw on both of my trips to
China (1993 and 2000).
I can’t remember hearing of a KHS branded unicycle, so it may just be a
sticker that was stuck on there.
Good luck on your search for a camera!
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
jfoss@unicycling.com
“My p____ just grew an inch!” David Poznanter, after riding an insane
downhill mud/wood obstacle in the pouring rain