I’m just about to order a Blue Sun flat top 20" Unicycle (first unicycle) and I Was wondering if anyone had heard anything about them. I am 5" tall and the minimum inseam is 30" would I be able to ride this?
Thanks
Here’s the link to it: http://www.sunbicycles.com/sun/unicycles/unicyclesFlatTop/unicyclesFlatTop.htm
wahahahahahhaha look at the crown on that thing talk about knee bashing 
Aside from that it looks pretty good, and you could always buy one of Evans Frame’s. If your hurting for money it’s pretty good but I would lean more towards getting a Nimbus.
isnt evans frame like super light, is it strong? I have a friend who has a nimbus (before he moved) and it was an awesome unicycle.
His frame isn’t super light but his uni is. I know it has some flex in it but I think it is pretty strong.
Nimbus
The nimbus sounds good but the price is right on the sun ft and I don’t even know how to ride a unicycle yet. The nimbus also has a 400mm seatpost which I think might be a bit long - I’m 10 years old and 5 feet tall. The knee bashing shouldn’t be that bad if i wear proper pads though.
He is fixing the flex with gussets. I get to ride the second prototype, woo.
Stay well clear of all Sun unis. I’ve had MANY stories of them breaking after little use. A friend tacoed the wheel on his by going of a curb and then doing a sharp turn.
A better learner is the Torker LX a bit more $ and a lot stronger, both not as much as the Nimbus though.
My first unicycle was the Sun ft and it was great. It held up to many drops larger than a curb. My friend who had the LX bent his cranks doing a silly 7 inch drop and I did the same thing and mine are fine (we’re about the same height/weight). I would think they are about the same, strength wise. I learned how to ride and hop up onto curbs and I highly recommend this uni as a first one. You can always upgrade later. One thing though. UPGRADE THE SEAT. Painful.
I would go with Torker, they’re cheap and reliable and strong. Suns have a reputation for being easily breakable. I’ve owned a couple of Torkers in the past and they’ve been reliable. My first uni was an LX and it withstood four and a half foot drops with out anything breaking. Go with Torker, not Sun.
go with the sun, i had one as my first uni and it help up to 3 ft drops with bad landings fine
Well, judging on the amazing amount of consensus so far, I’d say go with whatever you want. Keep in mind, though, that if you go for the Torker or Nimbus, you’ll have to change your username 
I personally learned on a Sun 20", and it was a decent unicycle. However, in the club I ride with, all 20 or 30 of the kids ride Torker LX’s and they are great unicycles.
And skilewis, the wheel that Tim taco’d was a 29er, so that may not be representative of Sun’s 20" wheels.
Having too long of a seatpost is not a reason to not get a certain unicycle. The seatposts are meant to be cut down with a hacksaw or pipe cutter to fit you, so they are made to fit the tallest riders.
I have decided to go with the sun flat top. I don’t think that me breaking it will be a problem (I weigh 80 pounds) and I do have good armour for the knee bashing.
Thanks for all the info though 
Wow, you’re really short. Are you sure you’re going to be able to ride this thing? I would think you could ride a wheel no larger than 2" diameter.
Actually I mean 5 feet tall
Though I haven’t seen the frame in person, that is certainly the impression I got as well. In the past, unicycle manufacturers went about their business designing their products with little or no input from actual unicycle riders. Or maybe from just one or two, but they may not have been great representatives of the unicycling population at large.
At the lower end of the market I’m sure this still goes on today. Again, I don’t know much about the Sun brand other than that they are low-priced unicycles. If price is more important to you than features, this brand may work for you. Many people have used Suns for a long time and had no problems. The danger is in using something for activities beyond what it was made for. So what is it made for?
All of us who’ve been riding off-road for more than a few years probably started with unicycles that didn’t have splined axles. We either had no choice (they didn’t exist yet), or couldn’t afford them. Those unicycles can work just fine. But Trials, or any form of unicycling where you hop, jump and drop a lot, will break a regular axle eventually. If your plan is to do Trials or aggressive Street or MUni, you should start with a splined axle if you can afford it.
If you can’t afford it, you can buy a cheaper unicycle and see how long it lasts. The Suns are known for being inexpensive, and I consider them a good deal for the price. You get what you pay for, and Suns are so much better than the “cheap” unicycles that were available in the 80s and 90s.
But I still can’t help thinking that frame will be very annoying to your knees or legs…
Yeah, that was Tim, and for all I know he may have ridden stair sets, and Muni w/ it.
I have heard about several Sun 29ers tacoing, but never on any other size. I have heard of many other Suns breaking (in many ways), usually under less stress than I heard the LX’s were breaking at, w/ the cranks being the first thing to go.
I heard of one guy who broke everything on his LX but his rim, spokes, and seat/seat post. First two sets of cranks (the left on one and right on the other, so he mixed the 1st and 2nd), then his hub and finally his frame. By that time he was doing some pretty hard core stuff (360’s off a picknick table). Then he got an Oza, I think and an uncle welded his LX frame back together and loaned it out to freinds.
Before Tim road it off that curb, I bet the spokes were way loose (I didn’t realize this was likely at the time). Frankly, I’m quite suprised he continued to ride it after it got a slight dent in the rim from that curb and didn’t take it to a LBS to make sure it got trued and tensioned properly before continuing to ride it.
Torker Lx
The torker Lx is starting to appeal to me a bit more, it seems like a good unicycle (with less knee bashing) does anyone have experiences with this uni It seems like it would be a perfect unicycle for me to learn on and doesn’t cost to much (99.99 off of amazon).
Here’s the link:
I think they have about equal knee bashing possibilities…
I used to have an LX and it was a great starter unicycle, I never had any problems with it.
You’ll have to cut the seat post a little bit though
You beat me to it…
Anyways, in my opinion, the Torker LX is the best learner unicycle. It’s durable, and easy to learn on. I don’t have any experience with Sun.