Last night, I received the latest one-wheel addition to our fleet of
unicycles, a 20" Wyganowski Freestyle unicycle. This is what I’ve always
wanted for freestyle, flat crown, seat post custom fitted to exactly my
specification, and high quality throughout. I’ve only spent an hour on it,
but it was a blast. While I was trying it out, Beau was busy showing me up
by ultimate wheeling all the way down the street. He got tired of that and
started doing another thing I can’t: hopping with the wrong foot forward.
I tried it on the Wyganowski, and it was amazing. Then I tried it no hands
and easily hopped 50 times! It may not sound like much to many of you, but
for some reason I could never hop with my right foot forward. What a great
machine. Next is wheel walking! This has renewed my interest in non-MUni.
The packages available from unicycle.com are great - your choice of colors
and wheel components. Thanks to the Drummonds for making these great
cycles easily available and for your care in assuring the sizing was
perfect for
me.
“Nathan Hoover” <nathan@movaris.com> wrote in message
news:<tj73e884pd46ff@corp.supernews.com>… > Last night, I received the latest one-wheel addition to our fleet of > unicycles, a 20" Wyganowski Freestyle unicycle. This is what I’ve always > wanted for freestyle, flat crown, seat post custom fitted to exactly my > specification, and high quality throughout. I’ve only spent an hour on > it, but it was a blast. While I was trying it out, Beau was busy showing > me up by ultimate wheeling all the way down the street. He got tired of > that and started doing another thing I can’t: hopping with the wrong > foot forward. I tried it on the Wyganowski, and it was amazing. Then I > tried it no hands and easily hopped 50 times! It may not sound like much > to many of you, but for some reason I could never hop with my right foot > forward. What a great machine. Next is wheel walking! This has renewed > my interest in non-MUni. > > The packages available from unicycle.com are great - your choice of > colors and wheel components. Thanks to the Drummonds for making these > great cycles easily available and for your care in assuring the sizing > was perfect for > me. > > —Nathan
It occurred to me that when you can’t adjust seat height on a uni like the
Wyganowski, you must need to carefully choose seat height, one that gives
you enough room to pull the seat out and put it back easily, but as high
as possible to allow for comfort in doing other stuff. I’ve noticed that I
like to ride with the seat normally quite snug, and when I want to
practice seat-out skills, I’m always putting the seat down 1-2 cm.
Is this crazy? I mean if you spend the bucks on a Wyganowski, you forfeit
the ability to modify seat height, so maybe it’s not important to skilled
freestylers. Maybe I’m fiddling with the quick release too much.
Can you modify seat height during skills testing? Is it frowned upon, or
disallowed?
Certainly during an actual freestyle event you wouldn’t stop to change the
seat height!
Joe Merrill
Last night, I received the latest one-wheel addition to our fleet of
unicycles, a 20" Wyganowski Freestyle unicycle. This is what I’ve always
wanted for freestyle, flat crown, seat post custom fitted to exactly my
specification, and high quality throughout. I’ve only spent an hour on it,
but it was a blast. While I was trying it out, Beau was busy showing me up
by ultimate wheeling all the way down the street. He got tired of that and
started doing another thing I can’t: hopping with the wrong foot forward.
I tried it on the Wyganowski, and it was amazing. Then I tried it no hands
and easily hopped 50 times! It may not sound like much to many of you, but
for some reason I could never hop with my right foot forward. What a great
machine. Next is wheel walking! This has renewed my interest in non-MUni.
Nycjoe@aol.com wrote: It occurred to me that when you can’t adjust seat
height on a uni like the Wyganowski, you must need to carefully choose
seat height, one that gives you
enough room to pull the seat out and put it back easily, but as high as
possible to allow for comfort in doing other stuff.
<snip> The kind of people who own Wyganowski frames
a) tend to be very good freestyle riders
b) ride in bike pants
Bike pants make getting in and out of seat skills a LOT easier. Try it
with baggy pants and a tall seat post you are pretty much doomed.
As to how high you should set your seat height. When I first started at
TCUC Connie told me to raise my seat about 3 inches above where I usually
had it. Needless to say it felt incredibly tall!
The plus side was once I got used to it, a lot of the more advanced tricks
became easier (Crank idle, seat in front, seat on side etc) Plus you look
better when you ride.
The top of your seat should sit just under your belly button. On my
custom Miyata I have about 1 inch of play. This helps to compensate for
the effect of changing to thicker soled shoes or a different seat. I use
a GT clamp which requires an Allen key to set the height. It is about a
1 minute job and I always carry an Allen key with me when doing
freestyle tricks.
You wouldn’t think that the thickness of your soles would matter much but
its amazing how sensitive you become to seat height.
o o Peter Bier o O o Juggler, unicyclist and mathematician.
c/|\o peter_bier@usa.net
It seems a lot of people start with too short a seat…
I learned on a 20" with a 300mm seat post, which was not quite in it’s
highest position. Now, I ride a 20" with the same sized frame and what
would amount to about a 450mm post.
I tried getting back on that uni with the 300mm post… and wow, I could
barely ride the thing. I can’t believe that was how I learned!
Jeff Lutkus
>As to how high you should set your seat height. When I first started at >TCUC Connie told me to raise my seat about 3 inches above where I usually >had it. Needless to say it felt incredibly tall!
>It seems a lot of people start with too short a seat… > >I learned on a 20" with a 300mm seat post, which was not quite in it’s >highest position. Now, I ride a 20" with the same sized frame and what >would amount to about a 450mm post.
And you started 1.5 years ago. Wow, you have grown a lot
Klaas Bil
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