Anybody have any advice on the transition from a 24" “street” tire to a
Gazz knobby for Muni. I’m a real newbie with unicycling and just when I
felt as if I could brave the challenges and the mud and head into the
woods I found that riding the Gazz knobby a real chore. Is this the sort
of thing that I’ve just got to put my time in on? Tommy Thompson Memphis
<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Anybody have any advice on
the transition from a 24" “street” tire to a Gazz knobby for Muni.
I’m a real newbie with unicycling and just when I felt as if I could
brave the challenges and the mud and head into the woods I found that
riding the Gazz knobby a real chore. Is this the sort of thing that
I’ve just got to put my time in on? <BR>Tommy Thompson
<BR>Memphis</FONT></HTML>
If it’s the weight that bothers you, you’ll get used to it. If it feels
“sticky” when you try to turn it, you may have the tire pressure too soft.
The harder you pump it up, the more it will feel like your street tire.
However, if it’s too hard then the uni will be less forgiving over rough
terrain (will bounce you around more instead of “glomming” over
obstacles).
-Kris. — Tmornstar@cs.com wrote: > Anybody have any advice on the transition from a 24" “street” tire to a > Gazz knobby for Muni. I’m a real newbie with unicycling and just when I > felt as if I could brave the challenges and the mud and head into the > woods I found that riding the Gazz knobby a real chore. Is this the sort > of thing that I’ve just got to put my time in on? Tommy Thompson Memphis >
Off road, regardless of tire size/type, is loads more work than streat. I feel slugish (compaired to streat riding) for the first 20 minutes of a ride, then one of 2 things happen: my legs become engorged with blood and fatigue begins to lurk in the background instead of the forground, or the trail places demands on me without regard to how I feel, and adrenalin kicks me into high gear.
Once you ride through sand or rough terain with ether tire- the big tire will be so much easyer, I think you’ll forget about it’s slugishness.
Try riding to the top of a good run- after struggling up, the bombing run to the bottom will make the wheel feel quick and agile by comparison. I thought I was stuck with a tank for the first few days, untill I got to do my first good MUni ride- and now I don’t notice it at all. This is not unlike the first time I got on the Coker… I thought I would NEVER get used to that…