Did you miss the above post about it not fitting?
I have to say Iām firmly in the camp of people who think that the Hatchet looks ridiculous without a fat tyre in it. Seeing it side on like the pictures above doesnāt tell the whole story.
Yeah you can fit other wheels in such a frame (I have a 26" freewheel in a 36" QX frame right now), but it always looks a bit silly, doubly so with the extra width.
i did miss that i guess
Any idea when the Nimbus Hatchet will be back in stock on unicycle.com ? I want the full 29" setup with brake but I donāt want to build it myself from parts.
OP here, life got in the way and I never wound up building the 27.5 hatchet the way I wanted. Finally stashed enough coin to make it happen and its been out of stock. I actually messaged them today with the same question and am waiting on a reply. Ill let you know what I find out.
Iād go with the fattest 26er I could fit in it. If I were going to go with something smaller Iād choose a different frame.
Judging by other sources, I would guess July
P.S. Yes that UDC 
but I also read elsewhere that UDC 
would get new stock around the same time, so perhaps UDC 
is the same.
Just confirmed with Josh at UDC US July it is.
Whew thatās sketchy looking. I just ordered a nextie 27.5 x 85mm double wall carbon rim, nimbus 32h 125mm hub, and a maxxis Colossus 27.5 x 4.5 for a hatchet build. Hopefully I donāt need to resort to this.
Hi unisomniac,
Do you have your frame yet ? Would love to see this once built so please attach some progress photos if you dont mind.
I also have a hatchet i built using a dt swiss br710 rim,They sure are fun to ride even thou there clumsy great things to ride!!
Yes, something like that was what I had in mind, but I hadnāt thought of 3d printing something when I wrote the above post ā Iām maybe too old school (!) I did see this when it was originally posted and thought it was pretty neat. Iām not sure how well the printed plastic stands up to being a bearing housing, but it is a good idea and nicely made.
That said, I think I agree with the sentiment that you really need to have a big fat wheel in a Hatchet 
. UDC used to say on their Hatchet description that you could fit a 32" wheel in the frame, I was just checking for someone if it was the case (since I had just got my Hatchet frame and I have a 32" Oracle). Actually, you can fit a 32" wheel in a Hatchet frame, it is just that youād have to do it without a tyre!
No frame yet. I figured I might as well build the wheel while I wait.
In my experience, 3d prints tend to be pretty strong. if you think regular filament wouldnāt be strong enough you can also print in carbon fiber.
It would probably be fine, I have no experience of the durability of the material, it would be under a reasonable amount of compression and also sheer forces. Basically I donāt know if it would end up breaking up ā not that that would stop me giving it a go though :o) I did like it as a solution. I wasnāt aware that you could 3d print carbon-fibre.
I have always thought getting a 3d printer would be a reasonable idea for playing around with stuff like that ā there are always too many other roads for oneās money to run thoughā¦
As a spacer between machined bearing caps I suspect itād hold up pretty well as itās mostly in compression, but still something like ABS would be a better bet than some basic PLA.
Well, you canāt really. You can print plastic thatās got carbon fibre strands embedded in it, but the additional strength is nothing like a part actually moulded with carbon fibre as the strands obviously have to miniscule to fit into the filament and be squeezed through a tiny nozzle.
They donāt do anything for layer-layer strength (additives can often also make this worse), and are a good way to have to replace your nozzle frequently as the materialās rather abrasive.
I just wondered if the material would ācrumbleā given the way it is deposited, especially with sheer in the direction along the axis of the axle, but I guess it is also clamped up by the bolts. Iād need to take a hammer to something printed to get a feel for it!
Anyway, what you say about printing carbon-fibre pretty much fits with what I would think. I didnāt actually think that any fibres that short would have any significant benefit over just āresinā. I didnāt really think about it wearing the nozzle though, more that it might clog it up. Either way, Iāve learned something.
Does that end up being similar to glass fibre reinforced nylon?
How is the maneuverability of a hatchet compared to something like a 36ā (Coker with 4-ply tire and 48 spoke wheel), or a 24ā x 2.35ā Sun? A 26ā x 4.8ā hatchet came up for sale for $400. It looks like it is in nice shape. I think it would be slightly older than the currently sold ones since it has venture cranks in it, but it looks like a nice deal for a disk brake muni.
Somewhere in the middle between the 36" and the 24" Iād say (unsurprisingly). Looks like a good deal to me, even if you donāt end up liking it, I bet you can resell it for similar money.
ItĖs younger than mine (end of 2016), because it has the newer rim with the offset spoke lacing (with the non-offset I had quite an issue with the wheel keeping centered). And I agree with @finnspin that it is a good deal. Fat unicycles are a breed of their own, as fatb*kes are in the two wheeled world. I like mine very much.
