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Riding on Ice!
Anybody else out there enjoy riding on ice? I've got a studded tire on my 28" Sun and it is a blast to ride around on the local hockey rink. We got blasted with snow over the last week or so, but good ol' Burlington got their priorities right and had the rinks cleared via bucketloader way before the sidewalks! It's about the only place I can ride, other than in the middle of the road, which is never a good idea on the uni... It is fun to watch peoples reactions to riding onto the ice. Kids pretty much stop playing hockey and even stop skating. You can do some cool stuff, like pedal hard and spin the tire, or try to skid sideways. I can't freemount on the ice, but I haven't tried all that hard. I can freemount on the edges of the rink, where the ice is rough or covered with snow. Sometimes I ride one of my MTBs on the ice - with studded tires - and it is fun to do crazy stuff like take the handlebars and turn them 90 degrees while riding. Something you'd never do without the ice - it takes a bit of nerve to do it. Anyway I had a few spills but still had a great time. I brought my skates with me, so I went skating after, and had a couple of nasty falls -- CrazyChrisVT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CrazyChrisVT's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12606 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58269 |
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probs be a good idea to wear a helmet -- thejdw dunawan wrote: why are koxx one unicycles so costly??? forrestunifreak wrote: They are expensive because they use only the finest soft drink cans. 2 unispins landed! don't follow Jesus, follow me! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thejdw's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/13230 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58269 |
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I tried riding on ice once when I was in Germany on the German Exchange but it was on a 6 foot giraffe and my german kid talked me into it and it was my first time on a giraffe it was very slippy and i felll off and it hurt but it was all in good fun -- mycatisonfire Em, Stranger Than A Gang Of Drunken Mimes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mycatisonfire's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/13746 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58269 |
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Haven't done ice, but I went unicycling down the sledding hills this past week. Really fun riding on the packed snow from the sleds. Should have seen the looks. The little kids thought it was cool, but the parents weren't too sure until I took off my helmet and they saw I was old enough to be their dad. What could they say then? -- ahollow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ahollow's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/13990 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58269 |
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I enjoy not having ice around where I live. But I grew up with 'plenty of it' (http://www.unicycling.com/things/index.htm#20) around: -- johnfoss John Foss "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/58269 |
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me and unicyclepa went trials riding and realized that we couldn't do it with all that hardpack snow we have but we decided to ride across a frozen lake which was pretty hard but fun. -- gordito8me 29er or 36er? can't decide either way I have like 54 bucks so nothing too great. radial 360 or nimbus 29er???? helllpppp!!!! helllpppp!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gordito8me's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/13641 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58269 |
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http://tinyurl.com/ydpv73 -- pdc "What doesn't kill you strengthens you, what kills you strengthens your mother" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pdc's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8160 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58269 |
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Just for the curious, I use a cheapo studded Nashbar.com tire. I think it is 700x35. It's like a studded pizza cutter, quite skinny and almost gets lost in the rim. I must say I don't like it for anything but the studs. You definitely have to be careful to keep the uni vertical -- any tilting reduces the stud contact leading to UPDs. -- CrazyChrisVT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CrazyChrisVT's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12606 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58269 |
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Thanks for the link, PDC. That thread mentions this link http://www.icebike.org/Equipment/tires.htm which if you scroll down to the Nashbar section, you'll see some good pix of the 700x35 as well as the 26x1.95s that I use on one of my MTBs. I paid $25 USD for the 700x35, and I think $35 USD for the 26x1.95s. Both are fairly good quality, rebadged Kendas. The rubber compound is fairly hard. This is the 2nd year of use and - granted I don't ride alot in winter - the tires show almost no wear. -- CrazyChrisVT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CrazyChrisVT's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12606 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/58269 |
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