"Suspension Muni on Ebay?!!"

WTF? Anyone know about this?http://tinyurl.com/2xfupg

It is an interesting concept however there are a few problems:

1) they state that it has lolopop bearings and those aren NOT lolipop
bearings in the pictures. I guess that they don't know what they are
selling or they are misleading or they aren't selling what is in the
pictures.

2) I don't know of to many 20" Munis.

3) the cranks are just square cranks.

4) the pedals are plastic.

I think that any serious muni or trials rider over 100 pounds would
shred that peice of crap apart!

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Suprising nobody noticed the crapy seatpost clamp


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It reminds me of the suspended or otherwise "tricked out" bikes you can
get at Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, etc. In other words, it's designed to look
like something cool and have a low price tag. Not necessarily to hold
up to anything.

I'm also curious about supposed knee problems from riding with a
suspension fork. I've played with them, but never done a long ride. I
have done long rides with a suspension seatpost, which probably has
less travel. No knee problems, but limited comfort improvement because
on the *real* bumps you're not standing up anyway. Suspension is
probably good for small bumps when you're seated. It's probably most
useful for road riding.

On a 20" MUni the suspension is more about looks than anything. And
that unicycle looks heavy. 13 pounds is the weight of a 24" Schwinn!

Also I like some of their specs:
"High tensile mountain specific steel" - Anyone ever heard of mountain
specific steel?
"lollipop style bearing holders" - Someone needs to tell the sellers
that lollipops are bad, and those aren't them.
"Cranks: 130mm heavy-duty steel" - Or maybe just heavy?
"Saddle: Viscount style with abrasion front and back" - Abrasion? What
happened to the seat? I thought the unicycle was supposed to be new??

Sounds like they are getting their feature copy off of Unicycle.com or
someplace similar, without actually knowing what all that stuff says...


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johnfoss wrote:


On a 20" MUni the suspension is more about looks than anything. And
that unicycle looks heavy. 13 pounds is the weight of a 24" Schwinn!

Also I like some of their specs:
"High tensile mountain specific steel" - Anyone ever heard of mountain
specific steel?
"lollipop style bearing holders" - Someone needs to tell the sellers
that lollipops are bad, and those aren't them.
"Cranks: 130mm heavy-duty steel" - Or maybe just heavy?
"Saddle: Viscount style with abrasion front and back" - Abrasion? What
happened to the seat? I thought the unicycle was supposed to be new??






ahaha thats so true +999


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shiddy wall mart bike fork with shidddy components



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GhettoSmurf wrote:
shiddy wall mart bike fork with shidddy components


I'm mnot sure if GhettoSmurf meant to spell it like that, but I like
that word. I know exactly what's meant by it, and it fits those heavy,
department store, wannabe "high-end" bikes perfectly!


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johnfoss wrote:
I'm mnot sure if GhettoSmurf meant to spell it like that, but I like
that word. I know exactly what's meant by it, and it fits those heavy,
department store, wannabe "high-end" bikes perfectly!



It seems like a great portmanteau of 'shoddy' and another word I'm sure
you need little imagination to work out.


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I think shiddy is shoddy with suspension!


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It's the sound you'd make if you tried to say 'shoddy' while riding over
rough ground on that suspension fork.


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