Today I....(non-brag)

Seems like a homemade handlebar without reinforcement plate. I am surprised that it broke the base like that. If you are in Europe, I think I have an extra plastic base I can send you if you want to do a resurrection surgery :face_savoring_food:

Edit: just realized it is a KH Zero or One saddle so it would be a resurrection/conversion to 4-bolts base :rofl:

My unicycle fell down a long, steep meadow. At least 30 meters, and the unicycle rolled over several times, which is why the plastic on the seat broke.


I'm going to buy a Made4One Handle saddle. It's made of metal and won't break easily.
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I just love the ad for the Red Cross in the background! :cross_mark:

Yesterday I could FINALLY take The Beast out for a ride again, after two months of absence. One crank was loose, so I had to tighten it properly:

Oh well. Riding The Beast again was just wonderful. Swoooosh! I can’t believe I have ridden my 29er all this time. Why do people still ride these tiny wheels outside the trails?!

I zoomed along Oslos main river Akerselva and was surprised by how short all distances suddently felt. I went all the way upstream to Nydalen - a nice urban junction I love riding past - and started riding home again.


(Archive photo of Nydalen with my 29" Micromachine)

As I approached the gate of De Norske GjƦr og Spritfabrikker A/S (Norwegian Yeast and Liquor factory) I hit my head on the gate and UPDed. :face_with_crossed_out_eyes: Maybe this is why people ride 29ers - you sit quite high on a Coker!

It was getting darker and I kept riding and exploring the opposite side of the river. Then I saw a place I had never seen before. How could I not have been here before? Was this a branch of the river? Unlikely.

I came to a place that had a park with some architectural elements and a bridge that reminded me of a place on the other side of the river called Badebakken. Intrigued, I wondered if this could be the bridge over to Badebakken with some mirrored elements.

To my surprise Badebakken was not across the bridge. Just another place I had never seen before. How was this possible? Where was I? Had I entered another realm or something? How hard did I even hit my head? :face_with_spiral_eyes:

I just picked the downstream direction and kept riding. After a short ride I suddently realized where I was. I was at Nydalen again. How was this possible?? How the heck could I have ended up upstream of Nydalen? At least this explained why I did not know where I had been?

As I rode through Nydalen I suddently realized what was going on. I was actually riding upstream and not downstream. Earlier when recognizing architectural elements from Badebakken, I happened to actually be at Badebakken, but in the believe that I was on the opposite side of the river.

My false believe was so firm that I didn’t recognize all the familiar places as they were all kinda flipped the other way around. They just didn’t fit somehow. And it being dark sure didn’t help.

I had somehow crossed the river without noticing right after hitting my head at the gate of the Yeast and Liquor Factory. Or I might have blacked out and someone carried me and my Coker across? I will never know! :thinking:

It is still crazy to think about how I rode around in familar surroundings without knowing where I was, and not even noticing riding upstream instead of downstream. :winking_face_with_tongue: I blame the blinding speed of The Beast!

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Oslo sure needs a bunch of L and R stickers to mark the river banks!
Oh, and your uni does seem to miss them, too! Fortunately the exorbitantly long brake line helps to identify which is the front and which the the rear of the uni. Left and right then suit automatically (at least as long as you don’t ride the uni upside down).

PS: Why didnā€˜t you leave the cranks at the position they have in the first pic? Should make for an interesting ride on a 36er (aka grown up uni).

PPS: If you want more speed, go for a G29 :face_with_tongue:

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LOL, You hit your head waaaayy to hard. You have cycled along that river 1000 times!

Yes, but that was together with you! And as we all know, you are way to fast. :winking_face_with_tongue: How do you expect me to pay attention to the actual surroundings?

That is an excellent question! Since I am going to participate in a timed mixed terrain race tomorrow, I deemed that to be a particularily impractical setup. :cowboy_hat_face:

I agree. If it was a mixed up crank race, that setup would be spot on, though.
Have a good race, a good time, and most of all: donā€˜t injure yourself.

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Today I learned to ride a freewheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b!cycle. I’m pretty sure that I haven’t yet ridden a b!ke this year - until today. I mention the freewheel part because I initially missed the ability to brake by backpedalling. The b!cycle was a special one, that would turn right if you turn the handlebars left… I was kinda relieved that I had the full face helmet with me, as I planned to go for a little muni afterwards :grin:. I was a bit optimistic when I thought I could learn it in a couple minutes. Instead I practiced a couple hours (I estimate between 1.5h and 2h). Best effort was to ride a distance of 90m. Twice. :man_superhero: I never did fall, but had lots of ā€œUPDsā€, which led to my heel starting to hurt (a souvenir from last weekend’s downhill ride, where I had too many falls and UPDs where I landed hard on my heels…). In addition, my shoulders started to hurt, too, because a) the steering mechanism wasn’t exactly smooth and because b) I had to hold the b!cycle firmly over and over again to stop it (and me) from falling when I UPD’d.
So I eventually called it a day and decided to postpone the muni ride to another day.

Late in the evening I took the 36er to the train, then to the bus before I rode it to a highway rest stop, where I met Maxence :grinning_face:. He gave me the new brake disc for the Schlumpf hub :tada:.
On my way back home I missed the train, so I decided to ride to the next station where I realised that I had to wait longer than expected for the next train, so I decided I was in for a night ride. Which is kinda cool (who doesn’t love a night ride when you have a powerfull lamp?), but also kinda scary, since my preferred route doesn’t follow the main street, but consists of gravel roads that lead through fields. In other words: Iā€˜m quite on my own if something happens… Fortunately nothing happened, except I saw a hedgehog :hedgehog:. When I passed the station of my village I picked up the 29er that I forgot there yesterday :flushed_face:. Riding on the 29er while pushing the 36er, I made the last stretch back to my home.

All in all a pretty good day! Rode three different unis, rode a funny b!cycle and met a member of this forum.

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why is your brake hose so long? That has to be the longest coils I’ve ever seen on a unicycle. A lot of people leave them long because they are afraid of the bleeding process. Don’t be intimidated to shorten it your self, It’s not very hard to cut and bleed, there are Lots of how to videos on you tube. Also there are inexpensive kits on Amazon that can make the job easier and insure that you have everything you need. it is not necessary to buy a kit but you will need a new olive fitting more than likely.

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I take it, this is your 36ā€, but you have very long legs, so the seat needs to come up a lot.

This setup makes wheel walking a 36er actually resemble walking, and it allows some interresting tricks like Seat Above (like Seat in Front, only above).

Who needs a Giraffe when you have a 700 mm seatpost? :wink:

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With seat-above, you can use the seat as an umbrella. Nice invention.

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Here you go….
and your brake will still be just fine if you want to go a bit higher :slight_smile:

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Wow now that’s another thing I’ve never seen. Even with your saddle in the clouds you still have plenty of line to spare.

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Indeed. Itā€˜s a bit like


…just less squirelly; itā€˜s a 36er after all.

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Oh wow! Actually, the funniest bit was when he dismounted. Simply by stepping off just like that. That kinda surprised me as I was for some reason expecting him to jump off like on a giraffe… :joy:

Racing along on a 36er on stilts in 15-20 km/h sound like a grand thing to do. Bystanders will be absolutely terrified. And I would be mortified.

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Today I road on a short stretch of dirt/grass for the first time in a very long time, now got to replenish the first aid kit :adhesive_bandage: . A 32 on 117s might not be the optimal unicycle for relearning to ride off road!

Also rode down some kerbs which was surprisingly non-eventful which made me happy, next to ride up them.

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You could be onto something, here :wink:. Hope the injuries arenā€˜t too bad.