pashley

I have a pashley unicycle and i dont know whther it is up to date???
should i get a new one???
ME :thinking:

Re: pashley

Unless it’s broken, just pump up the tire, and off you go. No need to get a new one.

I wonder if it’s about time Pashley upgraded their unicycle? It is out of date. They were ahead of their time- being one of the first mass production purpose built MUnis. In fact, I think they own the name Muni.

I’ve still got my old 26" Pashley :sunglasses:

Heh, I still do too, Ken, but the only original pieces left are the frame and bearing holders, and the frame has been cut down twice…

I’ve still got a 20" Pashley ā€˜Muni’ that I recently retrieved from the school I left a year ago. A friend I sold it to left it there so I decided to take charge of a rescue attempt. I was amazed to find it was still there! Its marked as an ā€˜absolute’ on the frame, but I recognise the style & the lollipop bearing housings. I’m going to put a hookworm on it and use it to teach people on I think. I had to replace the hub & cranks just after purchase (they got knackered pretty quick).

Loose.

My dad has one of those 20" ā€˜Absolute’ unis, I always wondered whether it was actually a Pashley. It dates from around 1996.

Pashley should definitely bring out a new uni, they make extremely good quality bikes and I’m sure they could apply the same expertise to unicycles without too much problem.
I for one would love to own a Pashley 36er!

My first uni was a 20 inch pashley UMX in about 1987. I later bought a Pashley 26 inch MUni, and have had much fun on it.

However, although you can have great fun on a Pashley, they are heavy and outdated. Knowing what I now know, I wouldn’t choose a Pashley MUni.

But that doesn’t mean you ā€œshouldā€ upgrade. You can have miles of fun on it, and upgrade when you know what style of riding suits you, and exactly what spec. you want.

Pashley had a unicycle called UMX? I wonder where they got that name? I originally used it in the USA Newsletter in an article from 1981 for Unicycle Motocross.

I remember the advert and the purchase decision very well. At the time, Pashley made a standard 20 and 24 with normal road bicycle tyres, and the 20 inch ā€œUMXā€ (as in Unicycle Moto X). The advertising leaflet went on about the standard 20 and the larger 24 and then said, ā€œā€¦or go uniciycle yomping on the UMXā€¦ā€.

Pashley are fairly local (Staffordshire, I think) and were retailing through Halfords a bicycle and motor spares chain store.

Yomping was a fashionable word in the early 1980s, having been used a lot by the media during the Falklands conflict of 1982 to describe the Marines marching cross country.

The UMX itself was a dreadful machine by modern standards. I still have the original frame, wheel, and cranks. The alleged seat was replaced with a seat from a child’s bicyccle. The pedals were upgraded.

The bearing holders were worse than the modern Pashley ones, each being held into the fork with two self-tapping screws.