This will probably get me banned for spam but here we go! A promotional video
"Do winter jackets with long arms, and gloves make it hard to check the time while cycling?
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"When you are done, that smooth pebble like shape will make it easy to store it again for next use. Just press it against your body, right above the pocket entrance and slide it down. It will pop right in!
"And if you accidentally drop it? No worries that chain will prevent it falling to the ground and breaking!
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"To demonstrate the ease of use, here is a man unicycle commuting on the road, in the winter. Even though he is filming this himself, he is easily able to extract the watch and look it at with a single hand while he cycles along!
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It really wasn’t. I was slowing down to avoid the jogger, trying to figure out where he was going. The gravel path ended and it became a raised blacktop just when my attention was on his phone. I was ready to run it out but my foot had no traction on the snow, so I slid instead.
I was maybe moving at walking speed. Laughed it off, got back up and was on my way…
Quick / fast indeed!
Since my highest speed on a uni to date (g29, nowhere near your speed) was also at night, I‘m wondering what your perception was. In my case I would have expected riding at such a high speed in the dark to feel terrifying - after all you have a harder time to see any bumps etc. that could cause a problem. Instead it felt surprisingly relaxed. Hm, maybe that was just because I didn‘t see every potential source of disaster .
75 mm on 36" is deceptively fast, it barely feels like im pedaling while actually flying along. (Exacerbated by lots of schlumpf riding the past few days)
Small holes or bumps in the road is not much of an issue when i expect them, even if their exact placement is obscured by darkness.
Of course with the 75 mm cranks i am generally more focused than on long cranks like 100mm
(Due to years of uni riding i remember what areas have such “obstacles” so that i wont really ever be surprised)
75 on a 36er is really impressive !
I used to ride 75 on my 29er (at speeds up to 30-31 kph), and even though I loved it on flat, well paved roads, it felt really dangerous when starting, or at lower speeds (below 15 kph).
Now that I have a schlumpf, I wouldn’t go back to riding it.
Also, I remember that when I first tried the 89 mm cranks, I decided time had came to use clipless pedals because I didn’t have enough control to not fall if one of my feet decided to move. 75 on the 36 feels to me like a setup which needs clipless (even though some really strong riders don’t use it, such as @GizmoDuck)
OMG this is so crazy and ridiculous. How can you even manage to film this! I can tell you right now that I am NOT joining your Trondheim-Oslo expedition.
For me, who has never even tried clipless this sounds even more insane than what I am seeing in the video. But then again, when you are committing to such speeds I guess bailing out is no longer an option? But ending up tangled in your Uni at a high speed UPD… Yikes!
On such short cranks I bet you are basically already doing something resembling freewheeling even on a normal 36er. Downhill 36/45mm action sure looks like that.
IMHO, it’s quite different. When riding freewheel, it’s easy to stop pedalling to avoid a crash (+ braking). When riding a fixed wheel with short cranks, it’s much harder.
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. Now at 145mm and prolly soon 140mm.
How can you even manage to film this! I can tell you right now that I am NOT joining your Trondheim-Oslo expedition. 
