Hi freaks,
in “the last” year my brother and I had a special idea for using the snow:
http://www.einrad-ist-besser-als-keinrad.de/huette.shtml
Greetings from the snowy (crazy word) -Felix
f.hees@gmx.de writes:
>Hi freaks,
>
>in “the last” year my brother and I had a special idea for using the
>snow: http://www.einrad-ist-besser-als-keinrad.de/huette.shtml
>
>Greetings from the snowy (crazy word) -Felix
I couldn’t find pix of snow trials at Felix’s cool (German) site. There
are some neat shots of trials bikes in snow, however.
Let me just say that some of the best practice trials riding you can do
(as someone new to trials riding) involves snow. Snow is a wonderful
and inexpensive material, provided you live somewhere cold enough (like
New York).
Last year at around this time, my club convened for the 2nd time ever and
we were lucky enough to have snow banks to try bouncing onto. Joe Merrill
and I both had trials unis by then (or was I borrowing his?), and we were
able to jump onto the snow banks without worrying much about some of the
things which make trials scary at first. • Since snow banks can be graded
(like a ramp), we could see how high we were able to jump by noticing
where we landed. • We didn’t have to worry about landing back on the
ground. • We could ‘crash’ into a barrier we were trying to get over
without it hurting us.
There are many good uses of snow for anyone interested in trials, but I
think that newbies (like me) benefit the most.
By the way, I rode home a few days ago in the snow on my Coker. It was a
bit scary on the downhills, but since the snow was only a centimeter deep
at most, it wasn’t a problem (yet) on straightaways.
David Stone Co-founder, Unatics of NY 1st Sunday / 3rd Saturday @ Central
Park Bandshell
1:30 start time after 11/1/01
…at the right are the uni pics
HI David,
the unicycle pics are at the right of this: …SITE 
At the left are really the monty bike pics, but at the right you’ll see…
greets
felix
Only for info. Sometimes I post with my real name, but sometimes with “foxx”.
Unibogganing is what we like to do in the snow here in Toronto. You find a nice hill where the kids are going down with their toboggans (pieces of curved wood/plastic that you sit on and then go down the hill). Climb to the top of the hill, point your uni in the downward direction, mount and go. Mud is not so great, so avoid the worn patches. Jumps don’t go so well because of the slow speeds of uni-ing.
A nice 2.5" full knobby tire with reduced air pressure will provide lots of traction in the snow. You’ll need at least 1/2" clearance both beside and above your tire or you’ll bind. Ice isn’t so great to ride on, and there’s lots of slipping.
Deep snow (3") is difficult for me to ride through but seems not to bother Carl Hoyer and his Gazz.
Slush sucks because it’s messy and slippery.
Riding on a frozen pond on sheer ice is also “interesting”, but the fall on the butt is as quick as it is painful. It’s still fun. You need to try this, but ensure the pond is truly frozen. A large butt pad would be useful.
Don_taiATyahooDOTcoDOTuk, Toronto, Canada
Snow is certainly interesting. I had occasion to watch 12 year old Zyllan
recently. Having fallen off his sledge on the snow slope two or three
times, he decided a uni with standard tyre, and a five foot giraffe, also
with “gymnasium tread” were two far better vehicles with which to descend
the snow slope. My prediction of “not a chance” was quickly proved wrong,
and he took the applause of the sledgers. I suspect that maybe a uni, with
its greater ground contact pressure may actually be easier for an
experienced rider to take down a snow slope, than a standard bicycle. I
wouldn’t try it myself as yet of course, not good enough, so the above is
all theory, but maybe the experienced amongst you might like to comment
upon bike vs uni on snow?
Unicycle ice hockey anyone?
–
I find it quite astonishing what some guys can do with three balls. Naomi
Naomi_Sajeri@hotmail.com
So far it’s only snowed once this year in Rochester (don’t get me
started)… but when it does, it’s a ton of fun to unicycle in. As for the
hills, there’s no way you’d convince me to try that stuff on a bicycle,
but I’ve hit all the hills I can find on a uni. You have so much more
control of a unicycle than a bicycle – none of that coasting stuff to
throw you off.
And let’s not forget that every unicycle I’ve seen comes equipt with all
wheel drive. 
jeff lutkus
> I suspect that maybe a uni, with its greater ground contact pressure
> may actually be easier for an experienced rider to take down a snow
> slope, than a standard bicycle. I wouldn’t try it myself as yet of
> course, not good enough, so the above is all theory, but maybe the
> experienced amongst you might like to comment upon bike vs uni on
> snow?
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:23:20 -0600 (CST), “Jeff Lutkus”
<lutkus@unicyclist.com> wrote:
>And let’s not forget that every unicycle I’ve seen comes equipt with all
>wheel drive.
A two-wheeler giraffe is a doubtful case in this respect.
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked
automagically from a database:” “screws, SLI, SONANGOL”
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:23:20 -0600 (CST), “Jeff Lutkus”
<lutkus@unicyclist.com> wrote:
>And let’s not forget that every unicycle I’ve seen comes equipt with all
>wheel drive.
A two-wheeler giraffe is a doubtful case in this respect.
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked
automagically from a database:” “screws, SLI, SONANGOL”
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:23:20 -0600 (CST), “Jeff Lutkus”
<lutkus@unicyclist.com> wrote:
>And let’s not forget that every unicycle I’ve seen comes equipt with all
>wheel drive.
A two-wheeler giraffe is a doubtful case in this respect.
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked
automagically from a database:” “screws, SLI, SONANGOL”