Are your knees still okay?
Yeah, Iām used to the smaller cranks and exclusively ride them for a few years now. Itās partly why the saddle is so high but Iāve developed some good muscle power for the smaller rotation.
Foot placement on the pedals and knee alignment is very important but you find the ways to make it work.
Apologies, I missed your questions. I can ride with moderate confidence now. I take it on easier to moderate trails with success. I was new to freewheel when I started. I have been writing my freewheel successes in Adventures in Freewheeling - #240 by IvenBach. Been having fun with it. I need to get back to consistently ride it, rainy gloomy weather has kept me off it for a few days.
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New-ish build
- Carbon 700c wheel, aluminum hub, 32c GP5000 tire
- Custom 100/75 mm cranks to go fast
- Red accents to make it faster (itās science)
- Amazing new Flansberrium frame with a locking loop, amazing bearing holders, lovely colour, and 3 cage bottle mounts front and rear
- Nimbus Air saddle because I love them
- Custom Flansberrium handlebar.
Jakob did an amazing job with the whole build. Couldnāt have dreamed it better myself and it handles amazing while still be very light.
The whole uni with handlebar (minus the 4lbs lock) is under 4.5kg/10 lbs (9.84 lbs).
This is what Iām calling ācity modeā.
I havenāt posted about it but Iām currently also transitioning from a boy to being femme presenting non-binary. So I have been buying many pink things.
As such this build is being called Gender Affirming Care or GAC for short.
For unipacking I have a 45c tire and 2 cargo cages in hot red coming that will increase the functionality of this frame. But my first ride with the lock today felt super stable and it doesnāt change the forward/back balancing by very much.
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What is the semicircle on the fork intended for?
I couldnāt imagine riding this one on 75, must be clone to getting airborne 
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Locking up the wheel. I ride it as my main form of transportation and it can now be safely locked outside if needed.
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Ok, makes sense. Nice uni!
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Wow. This frame design is a really clever idea! I wish, unicycle frames came stock with bottle cage studs.
What is that fender?
Keep rockin!
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Thatās a sweet ride.
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Love the ācity modeā 700c you just posted, but it reminded me that I needed to credit you with / blame you for messing with my plans to downsize to just two unis with your recent 20" post. Iām not at your level of short crankiness, but after reading your post I got nostalgic over how much I had loved buzzing around on a modified Indy-Nimbus hybrid 20" with a 2.3" slick tyre and 100mm cranks when I was training up our then-puppy to run with the uni. My current downsizing plan is to go from 5 to 2 unis, keeping just a g26 (that may one day become a g29) and a 24". But Iāve just bought another 20" - for its ISIS hub and cranks only, or so I thought (see a little further up this thread) - and Iām now thinking that I may hold onto it, swap my old 24" hub into it so it goes cotterless, and transfer the 2.3" tyre onto it so I have myself a fast 20" again, as uni number 3. Itāll only be small after all, and I so loved spinning along on the small wheel (I got up to 192 rpm highest according to my Garmin app - room for improvement still!). Iāll even be rocking a bit of red in that setup, as Iāve picked up a pair of red 100mm cotterless cranks off ebay - not quite your level of colour flare, but Iāll treat them as a reminder of your 75mm cranks, and hopefully someday Iāll get some myself. I wish you well with GAC, with all its colour and the thought thatās gone into it - and all it represents of new and courageous steps for you
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Also your credit card is the limit. My short crank builds work best because I have selected tires that are light weight, rims that are lightweight, and tubes that are light weight.
You donāt need carbon/expensive stuff but 300g of wheel weight savings makes a huge difference. It was the comfort between the 75mm on the 700c build feeling sketchy and controllable.
Neither of these are what Iād called beginner friendly too but practice will get you there!
Glad Iām inspiring bad habits lol but those 2 unis are honestly covering so much of my riding.
G26 and a 20" sounds like a solid fleet too.
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My KH G26er has changed and become a KH26er. I decided I had to experiment with the BrakeFast Schlumpf adapter but I couldnāt leave this frame / set up in bits so decided to test my wheel building skills again with this one.
Canāt say it is in any way advance - itās not, but happily the nice Magura braided brake in white goes well with the Impact hub.
Iām so happy to have a knock about setup like this using the nice (IMHO) 26x2.5ā High Roller Red Line tyre. Yep Iām sticking with 26ā for a while I think as I got a few rare secondhand old skoll Maxxis tyres 
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Sexy, can you show amazing bearing holders closer?
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You only have to undo a single bolt and the other one swings out of the way. Very nice for crank adjustments on the fly!
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Thank you, I fancy, there is quick locking clamp, like on underseat tube is.
Yeah itās my first Flansberrium frame. Can highly recommend it. Jakob made it turn out beyond my highest expectations.
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Jacob is the best! I have been riding the 29 for 5 years and the FAT26 for winters. He just made a 27.5 for my brand new Schlumpf. I like them bare metal to see the beautifully made welding.
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My unicycle is just a Frankenstein that grew over time. It started as a 2004 Nimbus Trials I got off Facebook marketplace a few months ago. I changed the cranks to 125mm and pedals to the generic beginner unicycle pedals. I also changed the KH saddle to a Impact Naomi. The tire and a spoke broke and I had a folding bike front wheel lying around so I spent a day building a new wheel from the parts.
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Just realised I only put 2 of todayās photos in the ālatest rideā thread so Iāll put the other one here too.
My Nimbus 2 24 muni with a specialized big roller 24x2.8" tyre, Shimano mt200 with a dābrake - itās an older frame without a mount. Kris Holm spirit 125/150 cranks (in the 150mm position), and Superstar el Plastique pedals.
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