Super Trick Cycle levels

General
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Super trick cycles are a lot of fun. A few weekends ago I had a go on two of them in Auckland- thanks to Tony Melton and his Mountain unicycle weekend, and also thanks to the guy who made the STCs (I’m useless with names). I would love to get one for myself, and I am surprised that there aren’t more unicyclists using them. The number of tricks possible on the STC increases greatly by using a unicycle for the front wheel as well as the back. We witnessed numerous tricks including a one footed nose wheelie face first into a wooden structure. I was set a few challenges by the STC maker - he got me to do a one footed wheelie (on the back wheel), and then got me to go from one footed riding into a wheelie. Tony’s STC has pegs on the front wheel, which is better than nothing but I think I would prefer pedals.

I think this would be very difficult on a STC given that the rear wheel is able to turn similar to the front wheel. As soon as you get a bit of speed up, the rear wheel gets the speed wobbles and starts bucking left and right. If anyone gets the chance to try a STC- go for it- you’d be surprised at how fun two wheels can be when they put the pedals in the right place!

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Please, post some vids!!!

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Brad on our STC

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to do the “stoppie” you could do a foot jam like on a bmx bike where you put your foot on the front wheel behind the fork so that the back wheel rises.

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Super Trick Cycle (Swing Bike) Video

Check out this Super Trick Cycle video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO8sNY-2yGo

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wow - so that’s what you call it!

Super Trick Cycle

My friend had one very similar to this in the late 70’s - early 80’s. We used to call it a trick bike or circus bike and this is the first time I’ve heard it called ‘STC’. Riding this bike was the precursor to unicycling for me.

The closest thing I have seen online is the come-apart bike which is similar but the uni detatches.

Are STC’s available commercially?

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I have done a million of them. Get a little speed (not much) and quickly jam your foot in between the front tire and forks. We used to call this an endo. :sunglasses:

If you mean the kind where you keep rolling its called a nose wheelie. I have never done this deliberately but some people can.