Riding on Ice!

probs be a good idea to wear a helmet

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dunawan said:

why are koxx one unicycles so costly???

forrestunifreak said:

They are expensive because they use only the finest soft drink cans.

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I tried riding on ice once when I was in Germany on the German Exchange
but it was on a 6 foot giraffe and my german kid talked me into it and
it was my first time on a giraffe it was very slippy and i felll off
and it hurt but it was all in good fun 😄

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Haven't done ice, but I went unicycling down the sledding hills this
past week. Really fun riding on the packed snow from the sleds.
Should have seen the looks. The little kids thought it was cool, but
the parents weren't too sure until I took off my helmet and they saw I
was old enough to be their dad. What could they say then?

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I enjoy not having ice around where I live. 🙂

But I grew up with 'plenty of it'
(http://www.unicycling.com/things/index.htm#20) around:

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me and unicyclepa went trials riding and realized that we couldn't do it
with all that hardpack snow we have but we decided to ride across a
frozen lake which was pretty hard but fun.

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either way I have like 54 bucks so nothing too great.
radial 360 or nimbus 29er????
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yeah but no studs...we skidded alot and fell even more..
everything got sooo wet from the snow though...
we must of been going about 5mph and skidded for like 6 feet then
fell...it was funny..

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whoo really i cant ryde in ice

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My first successful ride was on ice, I bought my first uni in October
last year while I was living up north, the frozen lake was the only
smooth surface around so that is where I learnt to ride, I have found
that 98 3/8" #8 Robinson screws in a Luna make a decent ice tire. After
Christmas I moved into Saskatoon and again the only flat clear areas
around were the skating rinks. All this riding on ice made me very good
at riding very gently with slow turns but the slightest bumps would
throw me off. I now ride a 26" MUni with a 3" Gazz and home made tire
chains, the chains work well on most surfaces but the Luna with screws
is better on glare ice.

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saskatchewanian said:

I now ride a 26" MUni with a 3" Gazz and home made tire chains, the
chains work well on most surfaces but the Luna with screws is better on
glare ice.

-Please- tell us more about the chains.

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http://tinyurl.com/ydpv73

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Just for the curious, I use a cheapo studded Nashbar.com tire. I think
it is 700x35. It's like a studded pizza cutter, quite skinny and
almost gets lost in the rim. I must say I don't like it for anything
but the studs.

You definitely have to be careful to keep the uni vertical -- any
tilting reduces the stud contact leading to UPDs.

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Thanks for the link, PDC. That thread mentions this link
http://www.icebike.org/Equipment/tires.htm

which if you scroll down to the Nashbar section, you'll see some good
pix of the 700x35 as well as the 26x1.95s that I use on one of my
MTBs.

I paid $25 USD for the 700x35, and I think $35 USD for the 26x1.95s.
Both are fairly good quality, rebadged Kendas. The rubber compound is
fairly hard.

This is the 2nd year of use and - granted I don't ride alot in winter -
the tires show almost no wear.

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martin.phillips said:

-Please- tell us more about the chains.

The chains i made used approximately 7m of #4 tenso chain (that kind
twisted wire kind with two loops per link), the chain crosses the tire
40 times in a criss cross manner using 6 links per cross. The end of
the chain was opened and closed around the first link with two pares of
pliers. On both sides at the end of each V a thin rope goes thrue the
end link. These ropes were tied in loops as tightly as possible then i
used a third rope to tension the rope loops further by weaving back and
forth inside the rim. This all cost me about $12 and took a couple
hours to get right. The chains work well and look impressive but I
prefer a studded tire.

In my experience screws designed for going through sheet metal with a
rounded head work quite well, get a length that just barely stick out
of your tread (1-3mm) as long studs do not work nearly as well. You
want the studs short enough that they will allow the rubber of the tire
to contact pavement when not on ice as this will give you better grip
in a variety of situations and limit the amount of unnecessary drag
when going through hard-pack snow. Put he screw into the tire from the
inside and try to center them on a lug because if they are off to the
side they may rip your tread when forces are put on them, I use a awl
to punch a hole from the outside for the screw to follow. Cover the
screw heads with duct tape or an old inner tube to protect your inner
tube. Wider screws are also better than thinner screws as they hold
better in the tread and wear less quickly. I’m going to be gone for a
couple weeks but when I get back I will try to post some pics of my
tires.

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Hmmm... maybe it's just me but putting studs or chains on sounds like
taking the fun out of it.

Maybe I'll have to try it one day to be sure, but I find Ice to be fine
just with my 24x3. The pond/skating rink is okay to ride on, but I
prefer the mini-mall down town where the sidewalks freeze over for
about half the width... it's interesting trying to set up for a stair
climb on a really slick surface. The best parts though are where the
ice is mounded up from drips off the building... trecherous.

You pretty much have to love ice if you ride where I do... there's just
no escaping it.

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