i didn’t really PLAN on it being an “ugly” ride.
although darren (bedford, the guy who put it together for me) keeps mentioning to e veryone who ever makes a comment within his earshot that it’s the most un-colour co-ordinated uni he’s put together in recent memory.
personally i want to make sure that it was unique so even at any uni meets, it would be hard to mistake for someone else’s!
(that and i couldn’t afford to do the whole uni in the green that the frame was, so i figured i’d go a bit nuts with the colour scheme)
i figured i needed something a bit squishier than the street saddle that was available. to be blunt without overly graphic… i have piercings in a sensitive area, and i actually do sit on the saddle a lot.
This was a project that people voted on to choose the worst parts to build a trials unicycle. You can hardly go worst than that, in the 19" trials unicycles anyway.
SEAT Double Foam layer with special shoelace cover SEAT POST KH Rail Adapter with Shadow Conspiracy seat post SEAT POST CLAMP Koxx-One Cockring clamp (watch out for your knees) FRAME Monty Trials Frame (again, watch our for your knees and legs) HUB First Edition Mad4One hub (good bye spokes) CRANKS KH sym cranks (short production run of KH cranks that were tested for more surface area to be more stable for tricks. Nobody ever used them, well because look at them. At least KH did a lot of R&D for urban unicycling back then!) PEDALS Cage pedals (good bye shins) RIM AlexRim DX32 (good rim… in '05. Too narrow by today’s standard) TIRE Nimbus Blizzard (so heavy, so god damn heavy, Edd had to use 3 crowbars to slip it on the rim)
Also very difficult to go heavier than this. I think the only unicycle I can think of that would be heavier than that is the April Fools KH20 training unicycle. KH had fooled some by introducing a solid frame and parts (as opposed to hollow) to have a heavier unicycle to use as training to get better on the regular unicycle.
