I used the brake for my 29er muni and haven’t bought a replacement. For anything more than a gentle slope I do want and need a brake. For the beach ride I was fine without it***. I don’t have any problem riding 114 cranks on flat level ground. I’ve found it feels better for me. Really tempted to go shorter and see how I do.
***Side note: After I took the photo, I rode down the ramp without issue until the bottom where I turned on a patch of sand. The uni went one direction and me another. Fell hard hurting my wrist. A brake my have prevented the fall but who knows #KarmaPayback for all my rebellious photos?
I’ve bought those last year, but the trail model:
I felt immediately comfortable mounting my unicycle and adjust my feet on this (that was not the case with my old metal spiky pedals).
I like them, but they are quite slippery when wet. My shoes may not be the best for these pedals, tho.
I made a review the day I got them here (in French, sorry):
Those look great! I have been using the Odyssey BMX pedals on all my unicycles, but I have been wondering what other options were out there. I will have to try a pair of those.
I used the Odyssey pedals for years after some nasty pedal strikes from the nimbus steel pin pedals. The sharp plastic pins can still do some damage to your shins. I found the look pedals and tried them non pinned version with my vans shoes the grip was great and a very comfortable pedal to adjust your footing.after mounting After a while I bought a set of the pinned look pedals for my 26 muni and I have since put the pinned pads on all of them. The replacement pads are available and very easy to swap out.
Hello Canapin,
thanks for the reply. When I open the link to monocycle .info, the text is machine-translated into Danish, so no problem …
I have not seen the thread “Look Geocity pedals” here at unicyclist .com (I don’t read everything). I have just tried to find some flat pedals with an acceptable grip. As you write, they are a bit to the heavy side, but I don’t ride fast anyway.
BR Sanne
Riding the GCC again this year trying to raise $$ for children’s cancer research and treatments. little over 10 miles yesterday afternoon on the 32 at my favorite local park
I might have accidentally honored the speed limit here - the trail was in terrible shape, with tree roots, washed out bits of trail, and bridges with exposed nails.
I really want to photoshop my uni in all of the rental bike corrals as I was leaving the city proper, but I’m way too exhausted at the moment. So pretend I did, it’s funny in my head
This is along the Manayunk canal towpath, where they’ve started building housing basically in the river. And every couple of years it’s literally in the river. I understand why they’re building it, because people are buying… but I don’t understand why people are buying.
And finally, just passing my mark. I actually did closer to 55 miles - Runkeeper helpfully paused the workout around mile 19 and I lost a couple. But I really wanted the number on screen so I pushed out a couple extra!
Three of more recent rides. Please forgive my bike usage.
The first picture was a quick ride around the park with a friend. He rode my mini penny so I rode the 24” to pace him. He loved it and we are planning on building him one of his own. Yes, I have a steering wheel on the penny right now.
I recently got a just go runt clown bike off of marketplace for $20 and it has been so much fun to ride around the house and has made me a lot happier. I took it for a 1.8 mile ride along a multi use path. Unfortunately gravel on the path damaged the old tires and causes chunks along the edge to split off. I’m currently super gluing them back together in hope to maintain them.
the mini-penny looks super fun - i’ve ridden a larger model in unicycle mode one time. hysterical.
clown bikes. nice. you could probably use something other than super glue, possibly a two part steel epoxy with rubberizor for strength, bind the sides with fiber glass, and do a continuous rubber rim retread…
Yeah I don’t expect the glue to last well, it’s just to let me ride it carefully in the mean time. I’m going to look into options of coating/retreading, adapting new tires to these rims, or making new wheels to fit new tires and the old hardware on these wheels.
#KarmaPayback for all my rebellious photos?
I’m currently super gluing them back together in hope to maintain them.
