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maxcarriere wrote: Thanks haper. So how fast are they ? Also you got any idea of how much livewire would charge me ? I think they're about as fast as you ride them. I think they would charge you about what they cost. -- harper -Greg Harper *jc is the only main man. there can be no other.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ harper's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/426 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 |
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maxcarriere wrote: Alright, so you have to change the gears manually ? so When you want to change gears you have to stop? corect me if I am wrong.. Also.. no price is up on the website anyone got an idea of how much it should be ? Cost for a Outta Phaze style geared Coker is probably going to be expensive. If you have to ask how much it is going to be you probably can't afford it. I don't know if U-Turn has had any interest in the geared Outta Phaze yet. Costs would likely include the design time necessary to get it designed and then there's custom machining that needs to be done to make the hub. U-Turn has the rights to the basic design but I don't know if he has a specific design already engineered. If you do ask him, make sure you're sitting down and ready for a wallop. At worst then you'll end up pleasantly surprised if it comes in under your expectations. A very cool unicycle though. I predict that an Outta Phaze will ultimately end up owning the hour record and the 100 mile record. Course with the gearing ratio possibilities with the Outta Phaze design you could make it with a 29er wheel rather than the Coker wheel. Just gear it up more. You'll end up with a lighter wheel. Might be better that way for speed and endurance records. -- john_childs john_childs (att) hotmail (dott) com Team Never Wash Your Muni Gallery: http://gallery.unicyclist.com/john_childs 'Unicycling Bookmark List' (http://backcountry.unicyclist.com/) :: 'World Clock' (http://tinyurl.com/a99y3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ john_childs's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/449 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 |
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On Mar 2, 3:58 pm, john_childs
. com wrote: maxcarriere wrote: Alright, so you have to change the gears manually ? so When you want to change gears you have to stop? corect me if I am wrong.. Also.. no price is up on the website anyone got an idea of how much it should be ? Cost for a Outta Phaze style geared Coker is probably going to be expensive. If you have to ask how much it is going to be you probably can't afford it. I don't know if U-Turn has had any interest in the geared Outta Phaze yet. Costs would likely include the design time necessary to get it designed and then there's custom machining that needs to be done to make the hub. U-Turn has the rights to the basic design but I don't know if he has a specific design already engineered. If you do ask him, make sure you're sitting down and ready for a wallop. At worst then you'll end up pleasantly surprised if it comes in under your expectations. A very cool unicycle though. I predict that an Outta Phaze will ultimately end up owning the hour record and the 100 mile record. Course with the gearing ratio possibilities with the Outta Phaze design you could make it with a 29er wheel rather than the Coker wheel. Just gear it up more. You'll end up with a lighter wheel. Might be better that way for speed and endurance records. -- john_childs john_childs (att) hotmail (dott) com Team Never Wash Your Muni Gallery:http://gallery.unicyclist.com/john_childs 'Unicycling Bookmark List' (http://backcountry.unicyclist.com/) :: 'World Clock' (http://tinyurl.com/a99y3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ john_childs's Profile:http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/449 View this thread:http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 Hans Fiby rode a geared (1 / 1.5 ratios) 36"er on the SINZ unitour. It was a Schlumpf hub (are there any others?) which he bought together with the frame and had fitted up. It was pretty quick. See also: http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44599 http://www.sinzuni.org/ |
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You can get schlumpf geared 36ers, loosemoose has one. Basically you buy the hub cranks and frame from schlumpf, then buy a rim, spokes, tyre, seat etc. and stick the lot together. Expect to pay in excess of £1k ($2k) for it though. I've ridden it quite a lot and it's a good setup, albeit tricky to change gears at speed. -- kington99 Dave - what a thoroughly post-modern subversion of the cycling genre - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kington99's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9417 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 |
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Wheeliefine wrote: Hans Fiby rode a geared (1 / 1.5 ratios) 36"er on the SINZ unitour. It was a Schlumpf hub (are there any others?) which he bought together with the frame and had fitted up. It was pretty quick. Yes, the Schlumpf hub in a Coker wheel would be the other option. The two styles of geared unicycles we currently have are the Schlumpf style hub and the Outta Phaze style jackshaft gearing. I was talking about the Outta Phaze style that LiveWire Unicycles (U-Turn) can make. Of course U-Turn could also make a geared Coker using the Schlumpf hub too. Some info on the Outta Phaze design are he http://www.livewireunicycles.com/Outta%20Phaze.htm -- john_childs john_childs (att) hotmail (dott) com Team Never Wash Your Muni Gallery: http://gallery.unicyclist.com/john_childs 'Unicycling Bookmark List' (http://backcountry.unicyclist.com/) :: 'World Clock' (http://tinyurl.com/a99y3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ john_childs's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/449 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 |
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Wheeliefine wrote: (are there any others?) Yes. The originals. Franks Bonsch's '(Unifrank)' (http://freenet-homepage.de/unifrank/hub_engl.htm) and 'mine' (http://staff.washington.edu/gharper/FinishedHub.htm). -- harper -Greg Harper *jc is the only main man. there can be no other.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ harper's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/426 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 |
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Greg, why is the axle so wide? I don't really have any experience with geared unicycles, I rode a 36" geared for a minute or two at Unicon and it was quite disapointing... saying that the unicycle had 125mm or 140mm cranks on which didn't get me more speed than 80mm or 90mm, a 36" with short cranks would probably ride better. Maybe Greg can answer this question, why are all the gear ratio's so small? Myself I would be going for a smaller wheel and a heavier gear ratio instead of a big wheel with a 'small' ratio like 1.5 is it because above 1.5/1.6 is mechanically impossible or is there a longer train of thoughts behind it? -- DustinSchaap FOUNDER OF EENWIEL.NL (\"HTTP://WWW.EENWIEL.NL\") *Sponsored by 'MUNICYCLE.COM' (http://www.municycle.com) , 'QU-AX' (http://www.qu-ax.com) and 'SEMCYCLE' (http://www.semcycle.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DustinSchaap's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12614 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 |
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DustinSchaap wrote: Greg, why is the axle so wide? I don't really have any experience with geared unicycles, I rode a 36" geared for a minute or two at Unicon and it was quite disapointing... saying that the unicycle had 125mm or 140mm cranks on which didn't get me more speed than 80mm or 90mm, a 36" with short cranks would probably ride better. Maybe Greg can answer this question, why are all the gear ratio's so small? Myself I would be going for a smaller wheel and a heavier gear ratio instead of a big wheel with a 'small' ratio like 1.5 is it because above 1.5/1.6 is mechanically impossible or is there a longer train of thoughts behind it? The first pass making the geared hub, I wanted enough taper on the axle to make sure I could get any cranks on it. I was unfamiliar with making the tapers. It increased the "Q" substantially and when I made the first hardened axle upgrade I shortened it to match the CroMoly axle profiles. The limit of the simple planetary hub gear ratio in this mode (fixed sun, driven planets, hub connected ring) is 2. The 2 is actually unattainable because it requires infinitesmally small planet gears. The ratio goes as 1+sun/ring where sun is the number of teeth in the sun gear and ring is the number of teeth in the ring gear. The sun/ring ratio is limited by ring=sun+2*planet where planet is the number of teeth in a planet gear. Higher gear ratios require going to a compound gearing system. This adds quite a bit of weight and complexity. I personally think that the larger and heavier the wheel is the more stable the ride is. I have ridden light 24" up through Coker wheels in 1.5 mode and found that stability increases with diameter and weight or, better, stability increases with wheel inertia. -- harper -Greg Harper *jc is the only main man. there can be no other.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ harper's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/426 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 |
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Here's 'a picture of me' (http://unicycling.smugmug.com/gallery/2480482#130140839) on the Schlumpf 36" I rode in the Marathon at Unicon last summer. I don't know the status of being able to order one of these directly, the story on this particular one, etc. It belongs to Roger Davies. The nice thing about it is you can cruise along at a nice clip without having to pedal so fast. The downside is you have to pay *a lot* more attention to keep it balanced. I was not able to ride at (or near) the speed of the front group in the race. Due to my lack of conditioning for such a long race however, I think I got a better time on that cycle than I would have on an ungeared Coker. Maybe. My experiences in that race are described in great detail in some similar threads. -- johnfoss John Foss Email: "jfoss" at "unicycling.com" -- www.unicycling.com ----------------------------------------------- "pretty much every trail that we've done on the California or Moab Muni weekends is an XC trail." -- Kris Holm, on XC from a North Shore point of view ------------------------------------------------------------------------ johnfoss's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/832 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 |
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Will any square taper crank arm fit the geared Schlumpf? -- Daytripper63 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daytripper63's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10789 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58509 |
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