When there is not the unlimited or easy money, yes. But if you had unlimited cash, how would you know if it was a malinvestment or not? You’d probably end up just spending more resources as you can just throw more cash at it. You wouldn’t know if another method would be better. Also, the incentive is not there to succeed on the early tries and this results in more resources being used on this particular problem, instead of those resources being used on some other project.
If you have a central planner, a lot of resources are thrown at a problem, using one or a small number of methods. If that fails, then a lot of resources were wasted, and you try again. In a distributed system, such as a free market, lots of individuals invest their resources in different methods, and the more successful method(s) rise above from the others because resources are being pulled towards them earlier on while depriving less successful methods. This results in much less wasted resources.
gilby, you are off topic!!!
haha, wasn’t the question what UNICYCLE would you get?
mine:
coustom seat cover made from leapord fur(no seams either) with a special foam shaped exactly to me and me only, a seatpost that is PART OF a seatbase and both totally indestructable. a kevlar frame with a thin titanium shell (not sure if it would be inner or outer) and internal trusses throughout. some crazy bearings(i’m thinking like car bearings, but 2 of them in one bearing housing, so you have killer bearings) … the axle, a 1.5" splined pipe that is utterly impossible to bend. the cranks… i have no idea, something super light and super strong. i would have them coustom fitted to my axle.
the pedals… HMMMM
letsss see
some sort of amazing pedals that NEVER flip over, no matter what, but rotate smoothy, permanently attached to the cranks, and have that perfect slide for grinding on ANY and EVERY surface.
oops, forgot the handle, one that has an opposing force to the ground and cannot touch it, but is perfectly shaped to my hand (of course the seatbase has a SIF handle imprinted on each side of similar comfort)
Off topic in JC? Never happens. Posting a unicycle thread in JC is like bringing a knife to a gun fight. (I know it’s a bad analogy but I heard it again recently and was the only analogy fresh in my head).
i’d want a titanium trials uni in blue and silver, super thick tube so i don’t keep blowin them out from to much jumping( i do like 3-6ftjumps off of stuff) good seat, and… made 4 the most hardcore riding ever
I don’t think you guys are thinking about this clearly enough. You need a big unicycle made of expensive, marketable components. You would want it to be solid platinum (no tubes) with 1 gauge platinum spokes. The tire should be filled with cocaine.
I would have a custom ti frame made in 22.2 size it would be a long neck A ti seat post/ custom cf base with some type of foam and a custom leather cover I would then have a ti drilled rim with ti spokes and a ti hub/ with isis splines also ti cranks The pedals of course full ti even the spindles
i would get a
ti frame probably the sponge or similar in design powder coated black
SW carbon fiber base and death grip handle.
custom crocodile skin gel saddle.
Thompson post
Schlumpf or kh geared hub black
neon green spokes
kh rim black
custom expendable cranks black
custom neon green luna tire
ok … why do the seat bases NOT have hand imprints?
it would be fairly easy to modify a the mold to include this… maybe we can suggest the idea to KH, I’ll email him about it.
