Novelty Uni

Hey all, for the winter holidays this year i'm staying at home the whole
time and im doing nothing, so i want to build something unicycle
related. I've got plenty of steel tubing on hand, a welder, plenty of
bicycle parts and whats not. What do you guys reccomend i build which
will look really really cool, look impossible to ride and most of all
completely stupid. thanks


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i dont have a coker rim, and this should be a cost free (or close to)
operation :P but that would be pretty damn cool all the same


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Make a 3 foot giraffe, with a skateboard wheel for the wheel. FIgure
that one out. Or, this is novelty, but design a seat with a wheel on
the front and back bumper, I remember bicycle seats had those for
flatland tricks, that would eb great. I remember while biking, having
the back upside down, and riding a wheelie on the back pegs, then have
the seat drag along, but will kill my seats for the trick, but my dads
friend had a seat with a tiny wheel in it, I got to use that for about
a week, and it saved the seat. WOuld be a good thing for the ones that
do a lot of seat drags and pushes.


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Try and make a reverse bike. One that works like a double stack uni.
You'd have to invert the hub and you could attach some stakeboard
wheels to the bottom of the bike wheels so it goes forwards as you
pedal backwards.


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Some ideas for a novelty uni:

A spinning seat. A seat that can spin around on the seatpost. Use a
bearing arrangement so it spins easily with no resistance. This has
been done before. It makes for a unicycle that is somewhat difficult
to ride.

A coaster uni. A wheel that can pedal forwards but coasts when you
stop pedaling or pedal backwards. Can be done with a bicycle rear hub
or the front wheel from some kids toys like some versions of the Big
Wheel.

A unicycle with a peg on one side of the wheel in place of one of the
cranks. So you have a unicycle with a normal crank on one side and a
BMX peg on the other. Get creative with new skills.

A unicycle with two pegs and no cranks. The bmx pegs would be fixed to
the hub so they spin with the hub. To propel the unicycle you would
wheel walk on the pegs. The pegs would need to be big and grippy.


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those are all really great ideas and johns ones seem like they would be
a hoot to ride.

I've stumbled across the idea of making a whipper-snipper powered b*ke,
for all you who dont know what a whipper snipper is, it's called a
weed-wacker in america i think, its those things you use to trim your
lawn


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Or use that engine to power your coaster uni, but build some stabalizers
so you dont fall fowards or backwards.


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if i built a stabiliser it wouldnt be a unicycle then would it :P


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well, i never said the stabilizer would have to be an extra wheel, you
should look up the plans for motorized unicycles, they are pretty kool.
=p


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Make a unicycle with some handlebars where the seatpost is, and then
pegs where the cranks would be so you would be holding on to the
handlebars and pushing off with your legs to go faster! That would be
sick!


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