Cousin Itt
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I think like you said earlier it’d be too early for that. I sure as heck got some interest on this page lol…you talk about revolutionizing Unicycle technology and boy you either like the ideal or you hate it.
Now caution: I have a long one for those who feel like wasting there time reading all this
This was about money to some extent, but it is a personal thing, so I am going to chill on posting threads or even polls about it for a little while…like I said before I LOVE SPEED, and I want to truly replace my bicycle (by the way I stopped owning bicycles years ago).
I know zooming around on a unicycle may make some of you squeamish, but I would never ever say something “like I would never want to go as fast as a road bike goes” lol, because to me I don’t care if someone else said it but if I said it, it would be “sacrilege” since in the sense that I am truly talking of “competing” with bicycles now because for a while before Kris holm or the Unigeezer or I knew about Redford Unicycling club none of my immediate friends and family knew Unicycles existed. I never want it to get that way again here, I want people to be aware that you can use a unicycle as viable transportation, or for the sport/novelty of it, whatever you want.
Unicycling takes Loyalty, commitment, and dedication to learn, as with business or making geared unicycles.
IMO there is way more marketability for Dual chain unicycles due to affordability, again, 1 speed, very simple, Justin has 1 as you mentioned, the Purple Phazer is another example as well.
Now about geared hubs; Unfortunately importation from some countries doesn’t make anything cheaper either , Like import taxes on European products, or European taxes on American products, looks like if there ever is a 5 speed “American made” unicycle than Some countries will have to unfortunately deal with the taxes, and vice versa, so that being said this French guy I keep hearing about can rest easy, like his product will be a little bit cheaper in his country than in in my country and # 2 it’s going to take some extensive testing, research, and development to get this thing going, as well as plenty of money which I whole heartedly plan to invest in it just to make it real for the interested and worst case scenario myself. It’s not like (personal information alert) once I pay off some bills here that my current employment won’t allow me to invest at least 20 grand a year or more if I didn’t have to pay for living arrangement/expenses—sure I’d be willing to spend tens of thousands just to make 1 prototype! I’m sure doing so with a car or a motorcycle would cost millions if not billions (depending on what car we are talking about) and take decades to develop.
I am hoping to give all unicyclist over the entire world options for the willing though.
Right now my goal is to make professional quality blueprints and make rough prototypes (they won’t be ride-able) for demonstration purposes only. Eventually though if it turns out only 10 people on the planet earth want one, and they wind up getting 1 I still think that’s pretty awesome as I never had the opportunity to just throw money at this to get 1…XD.
Another issue that I hear is that only rich people can get such a product, that’s part of the reason that I was working (and may still be offering) with dual chain products
I don’t believe it’s just a rich persons thing to have a geared unicycle hub though, unless you are at poverty level, what I think it is, is distribution of money, for example if you are an middle class adult you can afford a 20-30 grand car. well cars can be as cheap as 2 grand, now you spend 100k on a house, imagine is you could by an old used 50 k house (and I’m not talking about some run down crime ridden city, were talking country side etc.). imagine if you made 28K (not what I make and way lower than minimum wage) a year, you could finance the house and the car and you would still have around maybe 10k to spare a year…or even better you are 18 and live at home and make 15k a year, that will leave you around slightly more, etc.
I will plan to eventually start the intended company by getting my ideal company name legally licensed as a company eventually, all that cost money and unfortunately now I only have few k a year to spare at the moment on development considering my excessive bills, now I’ve told you guys a little too much about my personal life, this is not about making a big name in the Unicycle world for myself, in fact unless you can contribute in someway to this project I’d rather not have people know who I really am…I don’t need the attention, other more skilled unicyclist deserve that 
hopefully that gives you guys a better understanding of my intentions and commitment level.
Unicycles have 1 benefit over bicycles which I use to excuse my obsession, they can fit in car trunks, bicycles are cumbersome and break down due to complexity easily that being said, having a geared hub on a unicycle isn’t going to reduce complexity, and my first ever unicycle was some cheap piece of junk that broke apart in 2 months, I had to upgrade.
