breaking stuff

Hmmm. Breaks a lot of unicycles. Wants free ones to continue breaking.
Sounds expensive!

More seriously, if a company wanted a tester, their job would be to test
and report findings, not just break and show what broke. Does it still
sound like fun?

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sounds pretty funny but i dont know if it was worth making a thread
about. i think any decent trials rider is "good" at breaking unicycles
if they do stupid things or treat it badly.

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You could get a custom uni, those can be extremely strong. But also
extremely expensive.
Though if you just have a normal KH20 trials unicycle, that should hold
up quite well. You might need new cranks, though.

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gpickett00 said:

*sounds pretty funny but i dont know if it was worth making a thread
about. i think any decent trials rider is "good" at breaking unicycles
if they do stupid things or treat it badly. *

aww c'mon, gpick. I think its great to come home and read something
funny. Don't stifle the kid. I dont know how you do what you do on your
sun without breaking it. Us humans eventually break things. I think it
will be a long long time before unicycles are totally indestructable.
And i think the unicycling comunity needs Mr. North to crash test all
this stuff. And, gpick, if you dont end up breaking your sun, i'll be
happy to come run it over with my car. 🙂

James_Potter, it took me an hour to write this post because of your
avitar. It took me 50 mins to figure out that the stop button on my
browser would stop moving gifs. Then it took me 5 mins to clean clean up
all the spit/froth from my seisures. then i wrote the post.

I'm just being a dumb@ss. No hard feelings guys. You can lace into me
now. 😄
-erik

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What kind of unicycles? Anyone can break a lasco, and taco a sun, but it
takes real big moves combined with a serious disregrad for the uni and a
certain lack of skill to do in a 19" DX-32 profile wheel. Noone's really
looking to throw good parts away to someone who just is out to break
them (except SH and Harper😉 ), so probably, no, you can't get someone
to send you parts to break. Also, there are already many trials riders
who are more likely better than you or me, and are higher on a
designer's list of candidates for testing of parts.

Cheerio.

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mango said:

*
it took me 5 mins to clean clean up all the spit/froth from my
seisures. then i wrote the post.
-erik *

😄 Thanks! I was inspired by this:
http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/rgb.php
Don't go there if you have sensitive eyes, or a sensitive mind, or if
you're just sensitive in general.

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James_Potter said:

*http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/rgb.php
Don't go there if you have sensitive eyes, or a sensitive mind...*

Ow! I see where you got the inspiration for you "avatar." It sure makes
reading posts annoying when it's anywhere on the screen...

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Okay, I changed it so you wouldn't go insane.
This one is a picture of me, edited greatly by HandyAndy so you can't
tell what it is anymore.

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ha ha... iv got a summit frame, kh hub and cranks, onza wheel, 12 guage
spokes, kh seat... breaking stuff is goooood! as for that flash thing mr
potter... that didnt help my epilepsy all that much...

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Yeh, sorry about the avatar. Doesn't seem to affect me as much as it
does others. Oh well, I have one that's of an alien being now.

I think you should just look at what's breaking, and upgrade it.
Profile makes the strongest of everything, by the way.

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sounds like a good job maybe i could do that for work experience... haha

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i dont break anything on my unicycle anymore, except for pedals... i
just like breaking them...

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north said:

*ok... im pretty good at breaking unicycles... do you reckon i could
blag some of the companies that make parts into letting me test them?
*

I think the problem with this approach is that there are loads of people
who can break parts. Anyone can break any crankset (profile, KH etc.)
just by doing massive drops on it and most other unicycle parts (seats
etc.) can similarly be broken by someone trying to break things.

The thing people are likely to be looking for is people who ride really
well yet still break parts every so often, rather than someone who is
willing to do loads of really big drops and break loads of cranks.

The really good riders can already ride a lot of stuff that most people
would break cranks on without doing anything bad to their kit. The
problem with designing kit entirely for the less good riders who are
just willing to try massive drops they're not capable of landing well
yet is that it makes things over-engineered and heavy, which isn't good
for the average rider.

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