So it finally happened, the only original part left on my united trials
uni is broken.
In the summer of 2002 I purchased my first unicycle, a 19 united trials
uni from Unicycle.com. With it I basically taught myself how to ride
trials and eventually started to break parts. That fall I started
trying bigger drops and off of what seemed like a 10 foot drop (3.5
feet) I broke the stock lasco cranks to peices. That winter I got a set
of DK iron cross pedals and swaped out the original plastic ones. In
2003 came the first year of motorama and with a newly painted pink
frame with sparkles also came my second set of bent cranks. After that
was the first Toque games where I happend to win the sport class and
also left with 3 more sets of bent cranks and a broken seat post.
Not too long after the Toque games I upgraded my hub to a profile
crankset and with a flat spot and spokes pulling through the monty rim
I purchased my 2nd monty rim.
For a long while I rode on a stock viscount seat which I still love,
and the uni with this set up lasted until march or so of 2004 this is
when my 2nd monty rim was pulling itself apart again and I purchased a
DX32 from bedford as well as a new seatpost so that I could fit a
modified seat I had from my muni (purchased in 2003) to my trials ride.
This last summer the set up was fantastic, probably my favorite by far
the custom carbon seat with a bombproof wheel and I went back to using
the same type of pedals that were originally on the uni, oddysee
twisted pc's was all tuned into my liking.
After getting back from europe I looked at my unicycle and started to
put it back together and realized something that I must have done in
one of my last trials/ street outings in switzerland. I twised my frame
about 5-10 degrees out. Its not horrible but I think its about time to
say fairwell to what was the last peice of my original uni and start a
new chapter in my riding.
Sorry I lost my camera in Austria so no pix,
Cheers Mike
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Checkernuts
No one said it was gonna be easy and I'm not afraid to try, with the
odds stacked up against me I will have to fight, One Life One Wheel got
to do it right. H2O
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