Uni in skate bag?

thejdw said:

I have a skate board bag and I was wondering if I could use it to carry
my
24" uni?

Why are you asking us?

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Blegas78 said:

yeah seriously, we don't know anything about unicycles.

Oh stop being a dumbasses 😉 if you can't help, don't post

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dunawan said:

why are koxx one unicycles so costly???

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Blegas78 said:

yeah seriously, we don't know anything about unicycles.

Next time I want to carry a black keyboard on my right shoulder, I'll
come to you for advice.

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I've seen folks carry their uni's up mountains strapped to a backpack
wheel up before. I guess it depends on the bag. Since Uni's aren't
too hard to assemble/dissassemble, the bag would only have to be large
enough to fit the wheel really. Everything else should fit if it does.
It's prolly best to just go ahead and try it. Have you ever taken
your Uni apart or put it together before?

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thejdw said:

Oh stop being a dumbasses 😉 if you can't help, don't post

I wasn't aware I was being a "dumbasses," haha.

Ok, ok. 🙂 I have taken my uni on various trips, including a trip to
France, in my duffel bag. I'm pretty sure you can carry your uni
however is most convenient for you. If the bag works, then great!

ivan said:

Next time I want to carry a black keyboard on my right shoulder, I'll
come to you for advice.

Now that is something I am an expert in.

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Yeah i carry my 24" on the back of my rucksack, fully assembled, when
walking or biking. My rucksack is a snowboard bag, it has built in
straps that can be used to secure a uni. Lay your rucksack on the
floor, lay the uni on the back of it with the centre of the wheel
roughly in he centre of the bag, the cranks horiztonal so the pedal
pointing towards the wearer goes down the side of the bag, and the
frame/saddle pointing straight down. Now strap it through the spokes, I
put two straps through the spokes, and one around the frame at the
crown to stop it swinging from side to side.

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kington99 said:

Yeah i carry my 24" on the back of my rucksack, fully assembled, when
walking or biking. My rucksack is a snowboard bag, it has built in
straps that can be used to secure a uni. Lay your rucksack on the
floor, lay the uni on the back of it with the centre of the wheel
roughly in he centre of the bag, the cranks horiztonal so the pedal
pointing towards the wearer goes down the side of the bag, and the
frame/saddle pointing straight down. Now strap it through the spokes, I
put two straps through the spokes, and one around the frame at the
crown to stop it swinging from side to side.

thanks 🙂
I'll probebly need to add more straps then.

edit: do you have any pics?

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dunawan said:

why are koxx one unicycles so costly???

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They are expensive because they use only the finest soft drink cans.

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thejdw said:

thanks 🙂
I'll probebly need to add more straps then.

edit: do you have any pics?

This is the only one I have, not very clear but gives you an idea of
where the uni should be. This was back in the bad old days when we were
using a walking rucksack with seperate straps looped round the shoulder
straps to hold the uni, my current bag has straps built in to the
structre.

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kington99 said:

This is the only one I have, not very clear but gives you an idea of
where the uni should be. This was back in the bad old days when we were
using a walking rucksack with seperate straps looped round the shoulder
straps to hold the uni, my current bag has straps built in to the
structre.

Interesting... How did you find the separate straps solution worked?
I'd like to do something like this, but have been resisting buying a
snowboard pack on the grounds of practicality (and the fact I do a lot
of big wheeling).

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Several of the Emus use a big strap, attached to the seat, and to
somewhere in the wheel, which you just bung over your shoulder. It's
quicker than the attach to backpack method to take on/off.

On mine, if I really need to, my camelbak is covered in straps, I've
had a unicycle through them before and it's fine. I've done it when I
needed to take 2 unicycles somewhere.

I don't usually use it for uphills, cos it's better to at least have a
go at riding them, I know there are a few mountains in the world where
riding uphill is just not an option, but I usually ride in the UK,
where the mountains are small and riding uphill is at least on the
verge of possibility. It's nice to try and progress your uphill riding
too, rather than becoming a fat lazy downhiller like. I've been doing
multiple 1000 feet ascents every weekend recently. It's awesome fun,
and hell do you earn your gravity karma at the end of that (bring on
the 5-10 km long descents).

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joemarshall said:

I don't usually use it for uphills, cos it's better to at least have a
go at riding them, I know there are a few mountains in the world where
riding uphill is just not an option, but I usually ride in the UK,
where the mountains are small and riding uphill is at least on the
verge of possibility.

We developed this technique for getting up the later stages of the
miner's path on snowdon, which is entirely impossible to ride. I guess
you're right, in that we're dodging trying to ride up the llanberris
route, but it's just such a boring and long ascent, and none of us are
that fit.

Mark, the seperate straps work ok, but take ages and much fiddling to
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kington99 said:

This is the only one I have, not very clear but gives you an idea of
where the uni should be. This was back in the bad old days when we were
using a walking rucksack with seperate straps looped round the shoulder
straps to hold the uni, my current bag has straps built in to the
structre.

thanks that helps 🙂

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dunawan said:

why are koxx one unicycles so costly???

forrestunifreak said:

They are expensive because they use only the finest soft drink cans.

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kington99 said:

Mark, the seperate straps work ok, but take ages and much fiddling to
get set correctly.

May I ask what bag you're currently using? I was looking at the Dakine
Heli (maybe pro) pack as a possibility...

Cheers,
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kington99 said:

in that we're dodging trying to ride up the llanberris route, but it's
just such a boring and long ascent, and none of us are that fit.

Yeah, no-one is fit enough / has good enough technique to ride up the
Llanberis route yet. Roger and I really went for it one of the times,
and we reckoned we'd ridden maybe 20-25% of it at most. I think we're
both a bit limited in terms of trials though, which makes the technical
bits hard to get anywhere on, it takes so much effort for me just to
hop a couple of steps.

I reckon what it needs is the combination of someone who has a very
efficient trials riding style, to be able to hop over some of the rock
steps on the harder bits, but is also a good XC rider to get up the
completely rideable bits in between. I've met a couple of riders who
have that really efficient uphill style, there's this guy Bevan in
California in particular who bombed up stuff that was just un-rideable,
without looking like it was taking too much effort, but no-one has
really combined that with long distance muni riding yet.

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mark williamson said:

May I ask what bag you're currently using? I was looking at the Dakine
Heli (maybe pro) pack as a possibility...

Cheers,
Mark

Dakine helipack, i would maybe have preferred the pro as the volume of
the helipack is limited. I can hook my 24" or trials to it in less than
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joemarshall said:

Yeah, no-one is fit enough / has good enough technique to ride up the
Llanberis route yet. Roger and I really went for it one of the times,
and we reckoned we'd ridden maybe 20-25% of it at most. I think we're
both a bit limited in terms of trials though, which makes the technical
bits hard to get anywhere on, it takes so much effort for me just to
hop a couple of steps.

I reckon what it needs is the combination of someone who has a very
efficient trials riding style, to be able to hop over some of the rock
steps on the harder bits, but is also a good XC rider to get up the
completely rideable bits in between. I've met a couple of riders who
have that really efficient uphill style, there's this guy Bevan in
California in particular who bombed up stuff that was just un-rideable,
without looking like it was taking too much effort, but no-one has
really combined that with long distance muni riding yet.

Joe

I would have thought a major obstacle to being able to ride the whole
lot would be the section immeadiately after clogwyn cottage (where the
path passes underneath the railway) as it is just incredibly steep for
some way, I'm not sure anyone could ride up that steep consistently.

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kington99 said:

I would have thought a major obstacle to being able to ride the whole
lot would be the section immeadiately after clogwyn cottage (where the
path passes underneath the railway) as it is just incredibly steep for
some way, I'm not sure anyone could ride up that steep consistently.

Yeah. That'd be super hard. But I don't think there's anything so steep
that it'd be unrideable if it was tarmacced. If I'm right about that,
then I reckon it'd be possible for someone who is a super trials dude
to get up with some hopping. The shale bit later on though, that'd be
hard to ride uphill even hopping without sliding out.

To be honest though, I'd be pretty pleased if I ever manage to ride 75%
of that uphill. That'd be great.

Having said all this, I did remember a time when I could have done with
a strap, in Scotland, going up the dodgy side of 'Braeriach'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeriach), the lovely uphill singletrack
ends and there is a short section where you basically have to hang off
some rocks over a big old drop into a gully and climb up what in winter
is probably an ice climb, but in dry summer is a mainly dry waterfall.
Climbing that one handed with a unicycle was not one of my most
sensible moments, and basically involved getting on, grabbing the
unicycle and inching my way till I could dump the unicycle off the top.
Would have been a lot safer with some kind of strap, or even just a
rope to haul it up (doing that route meant a fantastic and quite easy
ride in with some awesome river crossings, followed by a downhill
technical singletrack ride out, with a munro bunged in the middle for a
bonus)

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thats how i do it with my dakine Helipack with my koxx-one red devil

http://tinyurl.com/2v9az2
here is the bag
http://tinyurl.com/25l5y6

i actually do it differently now, i hook the seatpost to another strap
on the bag, but it gives u an idea. Anyways its quite easy try lots of
different ways and find which suits u best.

I find that saddle down is annoying cause u always hit urself... but it
depends on how high ur uni is, mine is very small like 90cm... so its
real easy to fit.

Anyways i really recomend the dakine helipack, i got one with a 70oz
water reservoir and its a really nice bag. Its true that sometimes it
is abit small, its not a big bag, but i like to force myself to travel
light...

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joemarshall said:

Several of the Emus use a big strap, attached to the seat, and to
somewhere in the wheel, which you just bung over your shoulder.

You can try this: (I haven't myself) Get a longish wide piece of
webbing, like 2". Tie a loop in one end and stick the seat through it.
Position the cranks so they are perpendicular to the frame and bring
the webbing up and wrap it around the crank that is not going to be
against your back. Bring the webbing through the wheel, past the axle,
and tie it to the other crank. For that whole part try to keep the
webbing taught. Now put the uni on you back with crank with the not on
it against you. Swing the webbing over your shoulder and past your body
like a courier's bag. Tie a slip-not of the other end of webbing to
the uni frame.

If you find the seat hitting you in the back of the legs you might want
to take it and the post off and put the loop around the frame stem.

I used the earlier mentioned method of using a backpack, but I put my
uni a bit higher, so the seat/tire was almost hitting the back of my
head, and I had the cranks horizontal instead of straight up/down. W/
them up/down they dug into my back too much since I usually didn't have
anything in the pack. I just had to be a little careful taking the pack
off and on so that the pinned pedals didn't rip my clothes. I haven't
decided whether I preffer the wheel to be up or down.

Edit: you could also use a rope, but I think a wide webbing would be
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