the bigone

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I have my new unicycle! a big whell (36 inch )
The problem is that it’ s heavy, and so i can’ t brake quickly. How can i do
to put bike brakes on unicycle?.

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vive moi wrote:

> I have my new unicycle! a big whell (36 inch )
> The problem is that it’ s heavy, and so i can’ t brake quickly. How
> can i do
> to put bike brakes on unicycle?.

Greetings,

Here is a link to a Magura brake at unicycle.com. A model of the Coker
is sold with the brake pre-installed but you can do it yourself.

http://tinyurl.com/7hjy

I think you will also have to add the necessary mounting hardware for
the brake so here is a url to the ‘braze-on’ mounting kit. I think
you’ll need some welding experience for this one…

http://tinyurl.com/7hk6

There may be other options available to you. Good Luck.

Cheers,

Jason

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Just thought you might like to see what they look like when they have been
braised on and the frame powder coated.

Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: “Jason” <nospam@nospam.no.no.no>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.unicycling
To: <rsu@unicycling.org>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: the bigone

> vive moi wrote:
>
> > I have my new unicycle! a big whell (36 inch )
> > The problem is that it’ s heavy, and so i can’ t brake quickly. How
> > can i do
> > to put bike brakes on unicycle?.
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Here is a link to a Magura brake at unicycle.com. A model of the Coker
> is sold with the brake pre-installed but you can do it yourself.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7hjy
>
> I think you will also have to add the necessary mounting hardware for
> the brake so here is a url to the ‘braze-on’ mounting kit. I think
> you’ll need some welding experience for this one…
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7hk6
>
> There may be other options available to you. Good Luck.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
>

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>
>

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Roger Davies wrote:

> Just thought you might like to see what they look like when they have been
> braised on and the frame powder coated.

Very nice Roger. I especially like the look of the powder coated Nimbus
II frame.

Jason

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When I bought my Coker, one of the first things I did was post here asking about how to fit brakes, because it was so hard to stop, or to control on down hills.

Less than a year later, I’m riding it confidently on the Queen’s highway, uphill and down dale, on road and off road, and seldom have a problem.

As I understand it, brakes on unicycles are handy for long descents because they can be used as a drag, applying a fairly constant level of braking power to ‘flatten out’ a decline.

Applying a brake to stop a large uni from speed sounds like a recipe for ballistic corporeal pronation.

You need to know that a large wheel may take 2, 3 or even 4 wheel revolutions to stop from speed. Possibly even more. So you plan, you read the trail, you look what’s coming, you slow down in time. It’s a different, but very rewarding experience.

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Mikefule wrote:
> You need to know that a large wheel may take 2, 3 or even 4 wheel
> revolutions to stop from speed.

Or not. One of my teenage boy neighbors thought it would be funny to play
bullfighter with me, so I ran into him.

I was, of course, fine, having a nice soft body to ride down and land on.
Grendel was, of course, fine.

Noah will live, sadder but wiser.

Scott

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
–W. C. Fields