Just to share my first impressions on using brakes for
"Muniing". My MUNI practice is something comparable to
Enduro in Mountain biking, ie a mix of XC and technical
riding with some rough single tracks and steep but short
downhills (I'm not living in mountains, my usual ride is 15
to 25 km long and 800m, 400+, 400- for the difference in
altitude).
I installed brakes on my KH 24 yesterday, went for a ride,
and... I was amazed! all the downhills I used to ride seem
suddenly almost flat with brakes, and I was able to do new
ones that were too steep for me before. I was also less
tired at the end of my ride. Furthermore using brakes is
easier than I though, you just need to lean back a little
bit more (and have easy to modulate brakes like the Magura
I tested).
I was a little sceptical about brakes, and now I'm
convinced, and really impatient to go back in mountains for
real and long downhills.
The only drawback is that it breaks the simplicity (and
somehow the beauty) of a unicyle.
One final question, I saw brake level extenders on
unicycle.com (US site only). That should be quite useful as
braking with only the fingertip is not so easy. Do you know
where I can find such extenders in Europe, or did somebody
find another way to improve brake handling on a Muni?
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fme
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