Re: Florian Schlumpf in Seattle

It looks like the three of you are getting geared up for a shift in
distance unicycling

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Wow, great pictures, for the history books.

Imagine, someday people may never know of the struggle of a non-geared
uni's.

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I just swung thru my office so I could use my high speed access to
upload my pics.

They are in:

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/Schlumpf-Seattle

Un-editted & uncaptioned at this point, feel free to leave comments.

Quite a good time with the Schlumpf 24, Blue Shift, Purple Phaze, many
Cokers and a 29er with 110's. It was really interesting making the
adjustements from uni to uni.

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IT LOOKS LIKE I COULD GO WICKED FAST😄 😄

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I have added 10 .mpegs to Steve DeKoekkoek's gallery. I tried to pick
out ones of interest. Especially the sequences of Bruce Dawson when I'm
doing foot shots of him shifting Florian's unicycle. Others include
first rides on particular geared unicycles or rides where multiple
geared unicycles cross paths. Finally, of course, Irenes seat drag hand
shift. I had to include Abram's ride although it wasn't a particularly
good video because he was partially resposible for organizing the meet.
Finally, Tom Blackwood crossing the geared unicycle barrier that has
plagued him for a year deserved attention.

I, of course, broke someone elses unicycle today as is my want recently.
I did a three step jump down on Bryan's Torker DX and snapped the axle
off at the right crank. I felt obligated to loan him my Coker until he
gets a replacement wheelset.

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KOOL can you post the url or sometin

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Thank you guys for posting the photos and especially the videos -
they're great. Congratulations to all who rode and shifted. I knew it
wouldn't be impossible to shift on the fly. Irene - you rock!

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That's really interesting, especially Irene's seat drag. I would love to
try coasting on the Schlumpf unicycle. It should be easy to coast at
Coker-type speeds, and unlike on the Coker, there would be something
solid and relatively low to rest your feet on. Has anyone tried that
yet?

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That's awesome. I think those are the only three geared up nongiraffe
designs I know of, and they were all at the same place at the same time.

So, how did the three compare? Which was the smoothest? Which was the
fastest? I want all the details.

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daino149 said:

*So, how did the three compare? Which was the smoothest? Which was
the fastest? I want all the details.*

Today was my first day riding a geared uni, and since I had successful
rides on all three, I'll offer my view. Hopefully others will respond as
well.

The Schlumph 24 was the easiest to mount and ride, hands down. Pete's
36, geared at almost 2 to 1 ratio, was the hardest...again hands down.

For ME today, Blueshift was the fastest, but that's because I got to the
point of being comfortable, so I pushed it a little bit. It's the same
ratio as the Schlumph, but with a bigger tire, so it's bound to be
faster. Pete's by design would be the fastest, but I never got
comfortable enough to push it. Riding Purple Phaze for me was...well, I
was happy just staying on for a while and surviving. I'd need some time
and a long straight trail to get comfy.

In terms of smoothness, harder to say...they all rode a bit differently.
In terms of "play" it seemed like Pete's 36 had the least, followed by
the 24, followed by Blueshift. But they were all close. With Blueshift,
it still had a definite "flywheel" feel to it, which I like, but didn't
notice on the 24. Frankly, on the 24 it was easy to forget it was
geared after awhile, until you noticed how fast you were going for
relatively slow pedaling. On the two larger wheeled unis, it was
impossible for me to forget they were geared. Lots of mental energy
needed!

If I was going to own a geared uni, it would be with a 29" wheel or
bigger. Not too big to freemount easily, but big enough to get beyond
the 36" effective wheel size of the Coker.

BTW, I've added my shots from today to Unibrier's gallery. Tried to just
include ones that hadn't been already posted. I think my fave might be
this one of Steve on a Coker trying to keep up with JC on a shifted 29.

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daino149 said:

*That's awesome. I think those are the only three geared up
nongiraffe designs I know of, and they were all at the same place at
the same time.

So, how did the three compare? Which was the smoothest? Which was
the fastest? I want all the details.

*

Frank Bonsch's 1.67:1 28" unicycle was missing from the bunch. I think
Frank lives in Achen right now.

There is no question that Pete's Purple Phaze is by phar the phastest if
you can control it. I think Florian's shiftable unicycle was the
smoothest operating of the three and had backlash comparable to that of
BlueShift but it wasn't as noticeable while riding it in my opinion.

But you didn't ask which was prettiest.

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I had never rode a Coker before today. After freemounting a Coker I rode
Blue Shift, this was realy cool but there was a lot of play. I sort of
got used to it after a while.

Then I rode Florian's and was able to shift it. It's really quite easy
to shift while riding, you just drag your heal over the crank and
eventually it shifts and almost throws you. It does have play though, I
heard something about 1mm of play at the ends of the cranks but it
seemed like there was more than this. Even in 1:1 there is a fair amount
of play. I found that at 1:1.5, effective 36", it was more manuverable
than the Coker. The smaller, lighter wheel has less angular momentum
making in more manuverable.

After that I got comfortable with these two Pete helped me mount Purple
Phase. This uni is very hard to ride at 70" effective. I did ok after
like 8 tries. The nice thing about it is there is no slop at all and the
chain tension doesn't cause very much resistence. He has really long
(180mm?) cranks on it which are necesary. There were quite a few jokes
about Pete being super human for riding it till a few other people
managed to.

So PP is definitely the fastest and the smoothest and the hardest to
ride. Florian's is the most versitile and available.

Josie

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harper said:

Frank Bonsch's 1.67:1 28" unicycle was missing from the bunch.

For the record: Frank's gear ratio is 1:1.5833.

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