can’t you get a new hub in Europe? I believe I got my freewheel 20" from municycle.com. They are in Germany. Surely they can have a hub for you too.
Congrats on taming the beast!
I ride/rode my 36 every day. Just a few meters from my car to work and back or even 5m from my home to the car at day/night/rain/winter. So mounting becomes OK, although not yet at 100% success rate especially when under stress. I got a new car 1 year ago and I didn’t use the unicycle as often. Once after dismounting the 36er I got the opportunity to ride a 24" with a 4" tire and It was a funny experience for me that I really struggled to mount that small wheel.
I always idle-mount everything except the 36er and I can’t remember to have mounting problems with my standard 24er 1.75" tire, which I ride maybe once a year or less.
I have the Nimbus Thrift Hub. The Old one and I bought the wheel used but yes I hope I can fix it in this year. For me it is to much Money to buy the Pipifax Hub from Quax. I want to try it the Freewheel and I also had the chance to buy the expensive Hub from Quax. But I can ride my Ultimate Wheel 20 Meters without of any Help. I don’t know what is harder to learn. Freewheel or Ultimate Wheel.
I have an ultimate 20" wheel and used it with 100mm pipes around my legs as protection, making riding easy. I rode it while juggling 3 balls in front of audience for several times. I tried an impossible wheel for some hours and reached maybe up to 10m. I think a freewheel would be much harder than the ultimate wheel.
What is broken, can you post a picture?
The pawls are broken. It rotates in both directions as a freewheel.
I can repair small things, but this will be a case hardened part, which I didn’t create yet.
But anyhow you invented something new: no one repaired an ultimate or impossible wheel to let it become a proper unicycle 
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freewheel and ultimate wheel are 2 very different things. With a freewheel I can stay on for as long as I don’t have the need to rotate backwards for balance. At that moment you must really have the brake under control or you will fall backwards on your butt, which happened to me a few times. Im horrible with the hand brake.
For Ultimate Wheel, I initially rode it with shin guards, but they didn’t work that well. The began to act as a brake. So I just wear loose jogging pants for them. All this trouble I had to day with making some rotations with the 36" and not even haven’t managed to free mount it,I don’t have with the Ultimate Wheel. Sure when not riding it for a while, it will take a few tries, but free-mounting the UW really isn’t that hard. The hardest of a UW is the needed strength in your legs. It is not like you can sit down. All movement and balance is through the legs, which is very tiring.
So long story short, I don’t think you can compare UW with freewheel or even the 36" uni. They all behave differently.
Today I finally made my first revolution in one foot backwards. Unfortunately there wasn’t a second one, but it still feels like victory. Also, I bettered my PR in one foot right foot out to 13 revolutions, and my PR in seat in front backwards to 27 revolutions.
And I did my first running mount on a 29er, even up-hill 
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Great to hear that.
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Yesterday I was intent on free-mounting the UW which actually worked out several times also with making a few rotations. This morning though was hopeless. It just wouldnt work but then I drove to a place where I used to train with a long half high fence. I would just start near the end to make 2 supported rotations and the ride off unassisted and then I could ride 80 metres until my legs gave out.
I also now know why my legs hurt so much so many years ago with intense practicing. It is the freemount that twists my leg, not the actual riding.
For now I will focus on making distance and rotations. Also when trying to ride a bit faster, the balancing becomes easier.
It was just great to be able to do such a long stretch. Right after I did 50 metres, but my legs were just too tired.
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Is the strain on the legs comparable to riding SIF or is the UW in a different league altogether? I think it should be similar, but a bit more tiring since you have to do the entire balancing with your legs, whereas with SIF on the uni your arm helps with lateral balance.
The balancing might be easier with SIF. Ive never done that before, but using the uni as an UW will be harder, because the cranks push your legs outward. Having the feet closer to the wheel will make balancing easier.
That it is heavy on the legs prolly shows what poor physical condition I have.
Today I tried properly pushing myself on my ride. Managed to average 12.7 mph (20.3 kph) over a 5.9 (~9.5 km) mile loop 
36er with 125mm cranks
I track my speed with one of those magnetic cycle computers (A Bontrager GOtime specifically) which isn’t perfect, but I’m sure I have the calibration reasonably close. I know it overestimates speed and distance a little bit so it wouldn’t surprise me if my real average was a couple tenths lower.
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very impressive with such long cranks!!
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This section of trail has been unrideable for a couple of years, since a tree fell across it. Over time and alternative route has emerged but it has left a steep drop followed by a sharp off-camber right hand turn. Today I cleared it for the first time without having to grab the tree with my right hand to pull me round the turn…
I am also consistently clearing this skinny with enough momentum and poise to make it up the steep exit ramp. Although it has been rendered much less scary since the mud either side dried out. There is no jeopardy of a wet foot anymore 
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All week I’ve been postponing riding the 36” uni - not UW - again. Even though since last month I had ordered and fixed the inner tube and sawed off a cm off the seatpost. Today is again good weather and the last freeday before the workweek, so I had no excuse. Within 45 minutes I started out holding a wall and not being to push off to being able to ride a few kilometres. There is a skateboard park with a big open space perfect for riding circles. For some reason turning right was very smooth but turning left was near impossible. I kept on practising until I could consistently ride figures 8.
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I unicycled my first steps today. There was a set of three large concrete steps at the place I was unicycling, so I had to try them. It took me a few tries to work up my nerve, but I finally made it down without crashing.
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Today I passed a guy on his racing b!ke.
I was riding up a hill (maybe 150mm vertical) on my fatty when I suddenly saw that guy 60 - 70m in front of me. When riding up a hill on a uni I‘m powering anyway, in order to avoid stalling. But I think I still upped my pace and eventually overtook him. Ok, he was maybe 10, 15 years older than me and his tires were maybe 30mm wide. Still, it felt really good when I „zipped by“ and threw him a „morning!“ before leaving him behind. Last time when I rode up that hill I almost passed a lady on her mountain b!ke, but then she turned and descended before I caught up. This time, I managed to finish the job.
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