Salt water damaging to unicycles?

Nah man. Thats a old pic anyway. The frame broke waaay before uninats.


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if you seal the KH in a water tight bag then put it in salt water it
would be fine. Btw, what are you going to do if the uni sinks?


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You should put some type of float around it. When my friends and I
jumped things into the canal we learned this fact. You pobably can hold
it but that one time dropping it is gonna suck. We had to use 2 people
to get the bike we were using out.


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won't a uni usually float?


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yeah, unicycles float. I have many a time of experience with them
floating.

Chris, get it on film. Lol. Its really fun to do random stuff into
water on a uni. Until the bag you think is water tight, ends up having
holes, and soaks your saddle's foam. Which that would good, since you
end up finding out that your stiffner plate was broken, which then you
go to replace it the next day, and end up having to drill out a piece
from a saddle so you can swap seat bases. Which leaves your saddle with
a hole through the seatbase, which serves no purpose.

good thing i got one of my attempts at doing something on film. The
others i had no one to film for me.

good luck chris

edit: bike - sink
unicycle - float.


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Regular water will not harm a KH unicycle. Mine gets totally wet on most
of my winter rides. Keep in mind that the KH MUnis are aluminum frames
and aluminum does not rust the way Iron does. Many metal such as
Aluminum get a thin oxide layer that then acts as a barrier to further
corosion. The hub is CroMoly and that could rust but it is protected by
paint and hopefully grease in the splines.

Salt water on the other hand will corode Iron. Not only will the
CroMoly hub rust but it can also get pitted. Take a look at what used
to happen to cars in the northern American states from the salt
dispensed on the roads during wintertime! Also Aluminum alloyed with
nickel is usually safe from sal****er corosion. However the 7005
aluminium used on KH MUnis has Zinc in it and it is therefore open to
corrosion from sal****er. At least Yatches will not use Aluminium Zinc
alloys.

The MUni will float because there is Air in the tire. The tire itself
is a flotation device. There is even a video of Yoggi in Copenhagen
where his trials uni falls in a canal and some crew rowers take it out
of the water for him. On a 24" muni the tire has more air volume and
will therefore float even better.

Better find a freshwater lake to jump into!

Unicorn


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Unicorn wrote:

Salt water on the other hand will corode Iron. Unicorn


No breaks!!
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I rode on the beach in Hawaii and got hit by a wave and the salt water
caused corrosion around the spoke nipples. I had to completely
dissassemble the uni and scrub with soap and fresh water.


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unicycledood wrote:
Nah man. Thats a old pic anyway. The frame broke waaay before uninats.


hmm i remmember a green stickered KH frame, ahwell.

enjoy your unicycle swim.


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Daytripper63 wrote:
I rode on the beach in Hawaii and got hit by a wave and the salt water
caused corrosion around the spoke nipples. I had to completely
dissassemble the uni and scrub with soap and fresh water.



Ahhh yes. That makes perfect sense.


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