It’s killing me to keep this from you all. Maybe keep your eyes peeled for something cool in say 3 to 6 days unless I get choked at work.
Only clue: It’s the sort of thing that you may expect from me.
-gauss
I have no idea yet.
But I realy hope this page is made out of at least 90% recycled bytes, since I hate waste.
thats funny,its makes me wonder how many of us have secrets aswell.
stuff like that new Velo seat from Kris and the new handle replacment by the Muniac.how many hours have we all spent dreaming of the next best thing then only to find out, that its been done but has’nt made it to unicycle.com yet.
i get the feeling there are people with top secret unicycle imformation but there under a gag order.
i am one of those people too.i have been trusted with unicycle “information”.
all i can say is it will be faster,lighter and stronger than the piece of crap people use right now because there is no other choice.
Even if you can’t tell us what it is. I appreciate the advance warnings. I’ve been musing over a unicycle purchase and this motivates me to wait for the next big thing. That way, I won’t get something now and want to upgrade it a month later because someone better is out…
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leo <leo.63lka@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:<leo.63lka@timelimit.unicyclist.com>…
> I have no idea yet.
> But I realy hope this page is made out of at least 90% recycled bytes,
> since I hate waste.
I don’t know about “this” page. But all of my responses are made of
100% recycled electrons.
Klaas Bil
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I can tell you I had plans sitting around in my basement looking awfuly
similar to the uni.5 drawings on harpers site…I only found out about
harper, and in consiquence the newsgroup after giving up on my own plans and
doing some investigating to see if somebody else had done it. I think if
everybody who owned a unicycle also owned a machine shop in there basement,
this sport would be a lot further along. but ideas are good too, because
apparently some of us have machine shops in there basement and can put some
of our dreams to life if we bring them up on rsu. jsut a thought.
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Trevor andersen
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Why don’t you go ahead and build it anyway? I wouldn’t want to step on Harper’s toes, but if he’s trying for a copyright or something, I’m sure he has you beat anyway. Plus, if you built yours, you guys could compare notes and then there would be two UNI.5 prototypes to make the rounds.
Frank Bonsch built a 1.57 hub at the same time that I built a 1.5 hub. Frank is in Germany and you can search and find his web site easily. If you have plans for a similar hub, I insist that you build it.
A little bird told me about a new Muni coming out soon. Its in testing now, and may be making its way up to the New York Unatics for further testing. Quality under $400
-David Kaplan
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In a message dated 6/13/02 4:22:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, nbraz
zi.65sqb@timelimit.unicyclist.com writes:
> Why don’t you go ahead and build it anyway? I wouldn’t want to step on
> Harper’s toes, but if he’s trying for a copyright or something, I’m sure
> he has you beat anyway. Plus, if you built yours, you guys could
> compare notes and then there would be two UNI.5 prototypes to make the
> rounds.
>
>
> –
> nbrazzi
I think i might. but first i want to work on taking it to the next step, 4
or 5 speeds (requiring some sort of clutch, in turn requiring gliding
skills). Also, unlike harper, i dont build accelerator parts, i was planing
on having it built based on planes i drew out. But if the possibility
arrises to actualy build the thing i certainly will. personaly i feel a
multigeared hub would cure unicyclings few and only problems. one could
persumabably use the same unicycle for all purposes. One could carry around
a 20" with a decent weel and use it for everything from trials riding to
distance riding. It might not be AS good as a big 26 at rolling over things,
but at least it would have the speed offroad. put a monty weel on it, or
perhaps work on getting a 20" gazz built or something crazy like that.
but anyway, the point of the post was to get people to share what ideas/plans
they might have lying around in there basement so but cant really exicute so
that maybe those of us with the power, could do so.
This e/m is long enough, but i’d like to share one other idea i have had as
an example:
what about a gird plate?? Those of us who grid have been grinding on our
cranks/pedals. but this is very bad for the cranks and pedals, and does not
provide for very many varieable typs of grinding like you have in other
sports, and doesnt slide very well.
I have very detailed plans drawn out by hand. maybe if i can get my mac
hooked up to the net again ill post um. but basicly what i have includes a
flat piece of chromoly (same stuff used on bike pegs?) bolted into the side
of the frame running most of the length of the inside of one of the forks,
for stability, with a cutout around the axle, and coming down another
say…3.5-4 inches below the bearing holders to protect the weel (another
advantage of having a grind plate (proffesinal bmx pegs now do this too), and
a second piece of the same stuff starting welded to the bottom of the first
piece, running up along it, and then bending off at a right angle just below
the bearing holders and cutting off right before where the crank would hit
during its normal rotation.
the front and back of the horisontal piece should be somewhat rounded to
grind smothly.
anyway, just an idea. if anybody likes it and goes ahead and trys it, id pay
for a copy.
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Trevor andersen
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> I think i might. but first i want to work on taking it
> to the next step, 4 or 5 speeds (requiring some sort of
> clutch, in turn requiring gliding skills).
If you decide to go forward with this, I recommend starting with a simpler
2-speed design first. This will prove the concept, and give you a better
idea what kind of gearing you want if you go for additional gears. Suggested
“starter” gearing is 1.5:1 and 2:1. If you can make the gear changeable, it
would also be nice to have 1:1 as an option, but not a primary requirement
for an experimental vehicle such as this.
I think you will find that the “useful” range of gearing for a unicycle is
not that large. Once you pass a certain ratio, it gets too hard to ride
safely. But it might be fun to try a geared-down unicycle. What fun to have
one where you have to pedal five times to get one rotation of the wheel?
That would be a fun novelty cycle, plus great on the hills!
> Personaly i feel a multigeared hub would cure unicyclings
> few and only problems.
If you think a changeable gearing system will make a unicycle the equal of a
bike for speed and utility, you will be disappointed. Certainly you will
make it so a single unicycle can do much more, but it will always be either
slower than a bike, or way more dangerous.
> One could carry around a 20" with a decent weel and use
> it for everything from trials riding to distance riding.
I don’t know that I’d be comfortable with either of those. Having ridden a
20" that was geared to 40" equivalent, I know I wouldn’t want to go fast on
it. And though a big wheel will obviously roll over obstacles better, I
think it would be real interesting to try a geared unicycle on trails. We
are so used to having the tire move exactly as much as our feet do. Riding
the technical stuff would be a whole different ball game. Better? Hard to
say, except in that a 20" should be a good deal lighter than a Gazz wheel.
In any case, I hope you are able to make a shiftable unicycle work. I’ve
never seen one, but I’m sure there must be a way to do it.
Stay on top,
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
jfoss@unicycling.com
IF IT DAMAGES PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY,
SKATEBOARDING
AND UNICYCLING
IS A CRIME
(Mind where you grind)
I’m hoping to design a handle similiar to the Reeder handle. Shape and size is going to be a little bit more different, and I’d like to add some sort of quick release on the handle, so you can adjust the angle of the handle depending on how you like it positioned.
i’m working on "clip-in"shorts
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in article jagur.685ga@timelimit.unicyclist.com, jagur at
jagur.685ga@timelimit.unicyclist.com wrote on 6/14/02 1:18 AM:
>
> i’m working on "clip-in"shorts
Would that be a velcro seat?
-Carl
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> > i’m working on "clip-in"shorts
>
> Would that be a velcro seat?
Sounds more like a velcro butt!
JF
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Designing and building these products take both time and money with little compensation if any ever received for their efforts. Hobbyists drive the sport, which insures its purity. Rest assured your fellow unicyclists isn’t trying to sell you anything. Although they’re maybe a few exceptions, if you don’t love the sport you wouldn’t be involved with it at any level.
People make contributions to our sport in different ways. Innovators that design and build handlebars, hubs, seats, frames, or whatever that help make unicycling more enjoyable in some fashion are probably the most recognized. Since my mechanical ability is limited, I depend on them the most. I simply wouldn’t be enjoying the sport at the level I do without their contributions. The exciting thing is that we haven’t seen their best yet. These people possess an incredible amount of unselfishness and are not seen in too many other sports. Unicycling rocks!
But lets not forget about people making contribution in other ways. Organizers, Writers, Teachers, just to name a few. All people making contributions to the sport of unicycling get my applause. I hope they do yours too.
dan