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  1. WTF? Anyone know about this?http://tinyurl.com/2xfupg

  2. It is an interesting concept however there are a few problems:

    1) they state that it has lolopop bearings and those aren NOT lolipop
    bearings in the pictures. I guess that they don't know what they are
    selling or they are misleading or they aren't selling what is in the
    pictures.

    2) I don't know of to many 20" Munis.

    3) the cranks are just square cranks.

    4) the pedals are plastic.

    I think that any serious muni or trials rider over 100 pounds would
    shred that peice of [censored] apart!

    Unicorn

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  3. Suprising nobody noticed the crapy seatpost clamp😄

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    Zzagg, I'm struggling with your English.

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  4. It reminds me of the suspended or otherwise "tricked out" bikes you can
    get at Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, etc. In other words, it's designed to look
    like something cool and have a low price tag. Not necessarily to hold
    up to anything.

    I'm also curious about supposed knee problems from riding with a
    suspension fork. I've played with them, but never done a long ride. I
    have done long rides with a suspension seatpost, which probably has
    less travel. No knee problems, but limited comfort improvement because
    on the *real* bumps you're not standing up anyway. Suspension is
    probably good for small bumps when you're seated. It's probably most
    useful for road riding.

    On a 20" MUni the suspension is more about looks than anything. And
    that unicycle looks heavy. 13 pounds is the weight of a 24" Schwinn!

    Also I like some of their specs:
    "High tensile mountain specific steel" - Anyone ever heard of mountain
    specific steel?
    "lollipop style bearing holders" - Someone needs to tell the sellers
    that lollipops are bad, and those aren't them.
    "Cranks: 130mm heavy-duty steel" - Or maybe just heavy?
    "Saddle: Viscount style with abrasion front and back" - Abrasion? What
    happened to the seat? I thought the unicycle was supposed to be new??

    Sounds like they are getting their feature copy off of Unicycle.com or
    someplace similar, without actually knowing what all that stuff says...

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  5. johnfoss said:

    On a 20" MUni the suspension is more about looks than anything. And
    that unicycle looks heavy. 13 pounds is the weight of a 24" Schwinn!

    Also I like some of their specs:
    "High tensile mountain specific steel" - Anyone ever heard of mountain
    specific steel?
    "lollipop style bearing holders" - Someone needs to tell the sellers
    that lollipops are bad, and those aren't them.
    "Cranks: 130mm heavy-duty steel" - Or maybe just heavy?
    "Saddle: Viscount style with abrasion front and back" - Abrasion? What
    happened to the seat? I thought the unicycle was supposed to be new??

    ahaha thats so true 😄 +999

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  6. shiddy wall mart bike fork with shidddy components
    🙁

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  7. GhettoSmurf said:

    shiddy wall mart bike fork with shidddy components

    I'm mnot sure if GhettoSmurf meant to spell it like that, but I like
    that word. I know exactly what's meant by it, and it fits those heavy,
    department store, wannabe "high-end" bikes perfectly! 🙂

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    weekends is an XC trail." -- Kris Holm, on XC from a North Shore point
    of view
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  8. johnfoss said:

    I'm mnot sure if GhettoSmurf meant to spell it like that, but I like
    that word. I know exactly what's meant by it, and it fits those heavy,
    department store, wannabe "high-end" bikes perfectly! 🙂

    It seems like a great portmanteau of 'shoddy' and another word I'm sure
    you need little imagination to work out.

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  9. I think shiddy is shoddy with suspension!

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  10. It's the sound you'd make if you tried to say 'shoddy' while riding over
    rough ground on that suspension fork.

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