new homemade unicycle

Here are a couple of ideas I had. They are only very quickly sketched
just to get an idea of what they might look like.


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Ha ha, I like them a lot , massively low geared though, the wheel size
is effectivly the chainring size?

I realised my gear idea won't work on a "normal" uni, back to the
drawing board!


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Beanzmeanzheinz;1158643 wrote:
Yep, I can ride my "Puny cycle" but it's very low geared, couple that
with the fact it's made with 170mm bike cranks make for a lot of
thrashing & very little pogress!

The belt drive is geared 1 rev crank to 2 revs wheel so with the
7.5" dia wheel (7" sat on it!) it's about the same as peddling a 14"
diameter wheel. With the 170cranks the pedals are about 14" apart
also!

If your looking for a single higher/lower gear, my first thought
would be simple meshing gears as found in many simple old gearboxes,
mangles, boat/trailer winches, that kind of thing. Obviously it would
involve quite a lot of work making the frame.



Can you gear it up 5:1? That would give you the effective wheel
diameter as a Coker! Way cool! RTL!


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