The tyre is a 24x3 Felt “Thick Brick” (named after the brick style tread patern). It is not a muni tyre. It is a “crusier” style tyre. It is just what I had with me on this trip. It is certainly not optimal for this area, though having a little volume was nice as it softened some of the bumps on the way down.
I am in Iceland for work and brought a unicycle along because I could.
I just took my smallest because it was easiest to carry and I did not alter it from the configuration it was already in because I did not know how and when I might actually get to use it.
I was actually on a hike with colleagues and just took the uni along to cycle where I could. My friends thought I was a little nuts. To be honest I walked more than I cycled. In part because much of the route was not rideable and also because I couldn’t just race off and leave them. But I did get some riding in and certainly had fun.
P.S. When I say parts where not really rideable, this is what I mean.
Here is another part of the trip. Look very carefully at the top of the image.
That is awesome! In this minute I am just returning from holidays in Iceland. I went without my uni, and I had one single hike where I could have immagined riding down (and walk up). I envy you for being there at the moment!
Here I am cycing off when I eventualy decided to ditch the others and spend a litlle bit more time riding. An easy but fun trail at this point with the only real difficulty being trying to avoid pedal strike as it was so narrow at points.
Took my first “vehicular” uni ride today - using it to actually get to a destination vs practicing or joy riding. Just 3 miles round trip to the pharmacy, and only a little faster than walking (~4 mph average), but felt good overall. No unplanned dismounts, and the couple times I did dismount at busy intersections was able to free mount again with minimal fuss.
Uni is a 26" nimbus ii with a kh saddle. Currently running the stock 150 cranks, but planning to swap in 3 hole cranks and try 125 soon.
Another low quality image (only my feature phone with me) but I took it anyway because I loved the contrast in colour between this big yellow mound and the black dirt and gravel.
EDIT: In case you wondered… this is from on the coast of Seltjarnarnes (Reykjavík), Iceland. These things were apparently used to assist sailing (and as a landmark). The first one in this location was raised around 1780. Last one (prior to this) got destroyed 1996 by bad weather. This one was built some time after that.
A nice fall ride and I beat my old non-stop distance record of 20 miles. Today I went over 26 miles (42km) with no stops or dismounts. This was on my bike saddle and front support system.
No, the first hoop/handle is only used temporarily when mounting. It makes holding the uni for mounting similar to a normal front saddle handle and allows me to ride without hands on any handle till the removable front pad is in place.
Took advantage of a window between rainstorms to get a ride in on a nice paved bike trail nearby. This was my first significant ride since swapping my 150mm cranks for 3-hole cranks @ 125mm a couple days ago. Took a bit to get used to the higher seat position, and the higher resistance probably contributed to struggling and having to dismount on some steeper hills. As expect though, flats felt a bit faster. A surprise benefit was that free-mounting feels a bit more predictable with the higher resistance.
