There is a cool trials bike video here. Click on the Download button to download the video. It’s 22MB.
The cool bit is at 2:58 where he rides a rail on just the rear wheel. Almost a unicycle for a bit.
Lots of other videos over at Trials-shack.
Wow, that is some of the best bike trials I’ve seen in a while.
Craig Lee Scott goes huge.
enough said
Wow… that kid goes HUGE… blows any uni-trials rider out of the water with the gaps, although his lines are pretty short. The rear-wheel ride was pretty cool, but again, waaaay short compared to the stuff I’ve seen many uni-trials riders do.
Hmph… the jury’s still out on the better trials riders… one wheel vs. two.
gosh darn it, why can i download any video I want except for ones with craig lee scott in?
ah well, doesn’t matter 'cos I saw him at the bike show uk and he was pretty amazing there…
oh, wait it just has. ohmygosh! what a don! he didn’t do THAT at the bike show!
Ha ha, he was hold’n out on ya. Saving the good stuff for the video. 
but to be fair the trials set up at the bike show didn’t lend itself to this type of riding, they were doing a comp for new talent and the course was a bit natural-style. still, i could never do it!
anyway, I bet that video took a long time to make, not something you can easily recreate at the bike show.
he did however win the ‘hop idol’ comp
MBUK ran a feature in their mag on him, incedentally.
ot pi was there though and he was good too
That video was amazing!
I never knew what trials was (on any vehicle) until my first BUC. Seeing it on uni’s is cool as, but then to see the same course/obstacles done on a bike is fantastic!
That site also has a video of martin ashton falling off his bike - never seen that before!
Cheers for the link!
T.
That was so cool. It looked like he was flying. I liked the crankflip too:D
BMX flatland is awesome too. I’ve thought it would be neat to have a good BMX flatland rider do a demo at a unicycling convention. It might inspire some people to try some different moves on a unicycle. I’ve also thought it would be cool to make a unicycle with a peg on one side and a crank and pedal on the other. That would allow some BMX flatland style moves to be done on a unicycle. Would be interesting.
But then the hub would have to be half freewheel half direct drive 
! It would work if you had a pair of bearings in the peg itself, so it could spin free of the crank & pedal drive. Problem is it would be quite off balance, but it would make an excellent project, especially once you take the frame off, to get a ulti-possible wheel…
Loose.
I think you could find a way to make it so the peg doesn’t even connect directly to the wheel, it just connects to the frame but goes where the other crank/pedal would be. but this would take a lot of modification, I think…so it’d be pretty expensive.
It doesn’t need to be that complicated at all. You want the peg to be fixed to the frame and not free spinning. A free spinning peg would be impossible to keep your foot on.
You could put a hollow peg over the bit of the hub where the crank would go then somehow secure the peg to the frame. It wouldn’t be too complicated but it would require a custom made peg and custom made frame. You could also make it so that you could mount the peg on either the left or right side of the uni. That way it would suit riders who like one footing with either the right or left foot.
I don’t have the skills to be able to ride such a uni properly. It would require someone who is skilled at one foot ww, gliding, coasting, and BC wheel riding. A skilled rider could have some fun on a uni like that.
Couldn’t you just weld a peg to the bearing holder?
Yes.
Ideally you’d want to do it in a way that still allows you to remove the wheel.
I was envisioning a peg that would bolt to the frame over the bearing holder and be removable. Maybe the bottom part of the peg would serve as the bottom half of a bearing holder. There’s lots of ways to go about it.
maybe you could make it so that part of the peg goes into the bearing holder, and you can just tighten the bearing holder to keep it in. and it wouldn’t have to be attached to the wheel. I think that could work…
or, another option is put bearings into the peg itself. so the peg could spin on it’s own, but while your foot is on it, it won’t.
If its strong enough I think the bottom half of the peg should be welded to just the bottom bearing cap so when you put the bearing cap on, the peg goes in place but you can take it off by just unscrewing the cap. You would probably have to put 2 notches in the peg so it can slide over the axle
You don’t want the peg to be able to spin. It needs to be fixed to the frame. It would be almost impossible to keep your foot on a peg that can spin. The BMX bikes have designed pegs that have tabs to keep them from spinning. Check out some BMX pegs that are designed not to spin. They generally have some sort of tab that keeps them from being able to spin.
You’d still need some sort of support at the top of the peg. Otherwise the peg will bend downwards as soon as you put weight on it. You need to be able to bolt it somehow to the frame above the bearing to give it more support.
Thanks for the link John, that was some awesome riding! I love trails, ride with a few trials riders and I envy their control