Technical Queries about a Unicycle

Try pinchng your tyre all the way round so it sits in the central
channel of the rim rather than at the outer edge, if that doesn't work
then remove one side of the tyre from the rim as if you were changing
the tube, it should now be easy.

Denubbing of certain typres of cranks is done because people tend to
smash their ankles on cranks with very protruding nubs, which is
extremley painful. Old KH, DX and some Qu-Ax cranks are popular
candidates for this treatment. Personally I rode the old KH, quite
posibly the most notorious for this, with no problems, but only for
muni, i think it's more problematic for trials and street riding.

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Different tire/rim combos are harder to rotate than others. I had to
remove one side of my Luna on a DX32 rim to rotate it, a Monty EC seems
to rotate quite easily on a tri-all rim when deflated and a Durro
Wildlife seems to be impossible to rotate without completely removing
from a 26" DX32.

The problem with pinching the tire into the rim valley when rotating is
you tend to also rotate the tube

If you have splined cranks on your uni it would probably be easier to
just rotate your cranks a few splines at a time.

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wow i never thought of turning the cranks. thats a great idea!
i recently had to turn my try-all tyre, the first attept i tried
pinching and turning it , i folded the inner tube around and it wouldnt
inflate. so i took one side of the tyre off the rim and turnt it that
way, it ended up taking about half an hour to rotate it!!

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1-wheeled-grape said:

wow i never thought of turning the cranks. thats a great idea!
i recently had to turn my try-all tyre, the first attept i tried
pinching and turning it , i folded the inner tube around and it wouldnt
inflate. so i took one side of the tyre off the rim and turnt it that
way, it ended up taking about half an hour to rotate it!!

still thats probably less time than it would take to rotate the
cranks.

With my CC I never had any problems rotating my tire, that went down
easy, just let every puff of air out, squeezing the tyre. then just
smack the tyre about and quickly spin the tire by holding it and
pushing on the pedal.

I havnt tried spinning my MEC yet, hopfuly that will be just as easy.

If your realy strugling maybe you could try use talkon powder on it,
that may help.

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UniDudeDX said:

but how does it feel??

Munivision said:

Really great!

UniDudeDX said:

quickies normaly do...

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