Nimbus "Lefty" frame invented at the Kidderminster unimeet

I'll let Gary explain exactly how this managed to miss gouging huge
chunks out of his leg, but here's a photo of the second casualty of the
hockey at the unimeet yesterday. (The first casualty was a hockey
stick, caused by some schmuck* riding over it and cracking the plastic
blade...)

Incidentally so much for my exhausting weekend; we got half way to Afan
in a friend's car before the car broke down, and had to return very
slowly with a car with a blown head gasket...

Phil

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I think it broke because of the sheer power I exert in accelerating and
turning while playing hockey though my son says it’s the extra Xmas
weight I’m carrying, kids are nice like that.

When it happed I thought a hockey stick was in my spokes but it wasn’t
and how I escaped with just a tiny cut I really don’t know – skill I
guess (or maybe luck )


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you should post this on busteduni.com
very nice achievment (except that you must now replace it)


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Duct tape!!


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Holy crap I thought that frames breaking was just a myth. I can
understand that some might bend for things like cokers but never a
freestyle uni.


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litldude2 wrote:
Duct tape!!



YES spencer.
You have now been accepted into the D.W.F.A.A. (the Ducttape Will Fix
Anything Association)
your application will be in the mail shortly.


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Don't you hate when that happens? That happened to me once, but at least
the frame cracked before breaking all the way through. Unfortunately
this was during the USA Nationals, on the way to Unicon the last time I
competed in Freestyle. I had to compete at Unicon (VII) on a borrowed
unicycle. Then someone "tripped over the audio cord" during my
performance and the music went out...

So much for the one new trick I had that year, the Pedal Walk.


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johnfoss wrote:
the Pedal Walk.



I hereby represent the 11,000+ members of this forum who all want to
know what that is.


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Hmm, pedal walk.... maybe it's where you walk on the pedals?


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UniTyler wrote:
I hereby represent the 11,000+ members of this forum who all want to
know what that is.


It's a trick that breaks your frame.

It is *not* a trick where you walk on the pedals. It's where the
*unicycle* walks on one of its pedals while you stand on top. Sorry
about the hijack. I'll describe this once, but any further discussion
should be made in a new thread.

First you need pedals with double ends, such as these:
http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=217
There were these pedals that used to come on the old Semcycles. They
were better than those and were my preferred for Freestyle. I think the
brand was NHK but they aren't made any more. Anyway, you need the two
ends so the pedal can "walk."

Then you lay the unicycle down on its side, with the floor-facing pedal
at the bottom position. Stand with your feet on the tire, squeezing the
frame and top pedal between them. Cafefully rock your feet up and down,
and the unicycle will "walk" very slowly as the weight transfers from
one side of the pedal to the other. I forget which direction it walks,
but I think it's away from the seat.

Because the unicycle is laying down and there are 2 and 3
weight-bearing contact points with the floor, this does not count as a
"unicycling skill" in Freestyle judging. It's all Presentation points.
But the sideways stresses cracked the leg off my old Miyata frame.

Now I use soft rubber-ended Japanese Freestyle pedals, round on the
ends, and don't do that trick mostly because I don't have access to a
gym, and don't want to switch pedals just for one trick. But I made it
up myself!


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