Crap! sorry about that…I shrunk the pic, but then attached the still big one.
How embarrasing
Let me correct myself
That is one of the most horific images I have ever seen. I dont think I have seen anyone ever be so Sacraligious to the sport of unicycling. Yeah I noticed thats a Do the Muni shirt while your on your mtn bike. Its one thing to ride both of them, but another to mix and match shirts like that.
Sofa I never thought you would sink to this level
Chex
Yeah, but I only ride it on one wheel!
well this thread is toast 
page 3 couldnt come fast enough.
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thats what happens for trials and disks (with the exeptions of a few well designed frames 
Most of my mountain biking and trials riding was in Vancouver, Burnaby, and the North Shore. Not the driest of places:)
that’s odd, people I’ve met from the peaks (wet quite muddy place in the UK) all said they ran discs because they went through pads & rims really really fast otherwise. I always thought that and performance in the wet were the biggest advantages of discs?
Joe
That is exactly true. Drewnicycle is simply crazy
Anyone else think Sofa has a really cool looking house?
More on the subject, What are the tabs that break off from Trials? With the type of forces we put on unicycles, I would consider this a potential problem…
the tabs? the thinggys that attach the disk to the frame or fork… like canti-mounts only on 1 side…
John, disc tabs are the holes that disc brakes attach to. for lack of better picture, I found this on the magura website:
If you notice the two bolts diectly behold the axle, between the stanchions and the brake itself, that is where the fork attaches the actual braking mechanism.
The problem with disc brakes on trials bikes is that XC type tabs (ones that almost all, if not all, disc brakes use) are not designed to take backwards stress. they are only meant to slow the bike down, not lock it up. Since I dont actually ride bikes very often, and I have only once ridden a bike that has disc brakes, I could be very wrong. but the problem is the tabs rip off when force is applied away from the frame/fork.
I hope that makes sense to at least someone…
There wouldn’t be enough force exerted in a uni application to cause any damage. Trials bikes have their brakes locked tight, then released to a burst of force (likt to hop up to something) and the clamped down again to stop them.
It would apply barely any pressure to slow a uni down
trials bikes don’t really use their brakes for modulation, it would take the same force to stop a uni as it would for a trials bike
if you were riding your trials bike at 10 km’s an hour and braking to a stop.
I bet if you used your dsic brake during hops and drops and stuff with your uni, you’d break it as well. But you’re only using your brakes while riding.
Some one make me a disc uni, and I’ll try it. and supply photos
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
oooh good one 10km an hour Ha!
Unispin- I disagree. Trials bike use modulation quite often. Getting up on to the back wheel, pedal kicking, edging up to the end of an obstacle before gapping are examples.
Sofa- Firstprinciples (.ca) make a disc adapter for standard hubs. All you need is to braze on a mount for the disc. Muniac made a disc muni few years back, (99?) but not from the first principles hub.
-I don’t see how a road bike can benefit from a disc brake.
-Front wheel stoppies are easier with maggies (at least for me)
-once you set up up the maguras you don’t have to touch them again, other than replacing pads and maybe changing the oil once every two years.
-you can adjust the lever feel so it’s not a hand cramping experience and most trials riders brake with one finger
-the hoses are pretty much identical and you can always upgrade to stainless if you feel so inclined.
What?! getting to back wheel? as in bunnyhopping to or just getting up to?
pedal kicking is pulling hard on the brakes so the wheel doesn’t slip out fro underneith you,
and getting to and edge of an obstical and gapping are the same as pedal kicking,