wat the hell

[stuntpogoer]

my unicycle cranks and pedals stripped and now i have to get new goddamn cranks and i was just starting to learn tricks and grind...

this SUCKS... why the HELL dont they put a left or right on the pedal so we dont strip the hell out of them???

[tobbogonist]

ive done that before, learn from your mistakes i guess.
sorry to here.

[iridemymuni]

why the HELL dont they put a left or right on the pedal so we dont strip the hell out of them???

they do.

[Spencer Hochberg]

this SUCKS... why the HELL dont they put a left or right on the pedal so we dont strip the hell out of them???
Look on the end of the threaded part, there is a L and R.

[markf]

if not (some pedals just have a big allen bolt on the end of the spindle) they mark them in other ways. pay attention and you won't screw up your cranks.

[Jerrick]

Just be glad cotterless cranks come so cheap.

Its good you didnt ruin a 60-100 dollar crank.

[stuntpogoer]

i did rewen the cranks and i also rewened the pedals.

[Borgschulze]

i did rewen the cranks and i also rewened the pedals.
Ride your pogo stick?

Seriously, if you threaded the wrong pedal into the wrong crank, you need a crash course in nut and bolt technology.

[brendan]

well thats abit harsh... i nearly made that mistake... i guess i was like 11... but still... as someone said learn from your mistakes...

[benjaug]

At least pogo sticks don't have pedals or cranks to strip, right?

[thejdw]

my unicycle cranks and pedals stripped and now i have to get new goddamn cranks and i was just starting to learn tricks and grind...

this SUCKS... why the HELL dont they put a left or right on the pedal so we dont strip the hell out of them???
you can grind already?:eek:
well I sopose if you can do them on a pogo stick it shoulent be too hard to ajust:rolleyes:

[stuntpogoer]

i was learning...

i could only do it for like a inch or 2 on a flat ledge. i was trying to get farther and farther.

and no, pogo sticks dont have anything to thread, but plenty of things to break. but that doesnt matter, because the pogo companies dont suck and they stand by their products and send you new ones if something breaks.

plus im sponsored by motostik som theyll send me a new one on demand.

[monkeyman]

and no, pogo sticks dont have anything to thread, but plenty of things to break. but that doesnt matter, because the pogo companies dont suck and they stand by their products and send you new ones if something breaks.

So you would prefer the company paying for your mistake? Doesn't sound very fair to them.

[podzol]

All the pedals I have used the left one has a toothed bushing and the R one does not.

[Spencer Hochberg]

and no, pogo sticks dont have anything to thread, but plenty of things to break. but that doesnt matter, because the pogo companies dont suck and they stand by their products and send you new ones if something breaks.
Its one thing if you break it from riding but you just put it together wrong and broke it. Pedals say what side they go on and so do the cranks so you can't expect them to give you new ones...

[Evan Byrne]

i was learning...

i could only do it for like a inch or 2 on a flat ledge. i was trying to get farther and farther.

and no, pogo sticks dont have anything to thread, but plenty of things to break. but that doesnt matter, because the pogo companies dont suck and they stand by their products and send you new ones if something breaks.

plus im sponsored by motostik som theyll send me a new one on demand.

Sponcored for compressing a spring? Wow, thats some skill there dude.



Plus, You had fine pedals and cranks, you were just a dumass and cranked the wrench down even though it was resisting.

[abbabibble]

evan...
before you go startiing something else (again... in i might add), he does some insane stuff on them pogos.

anyways, i 'gree with spencer.

They are labelled, and with a lot of pedals you can tell if they're on right by the shape of the pedal.

[stuntpogoer]

sponsored for peddling a unicycle? wow.

(sarcastic) its the same exact thing. and havent you seen any videos? its extreme pogoing not just jumping up and down u dick

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1517453283

its alot more dangerous than unicycling, so id shut the hell up. (no offense to unicyclists, unicycling is one of my favorite sports)

[Spencer Hochberg]

sponsored for peddling a unicycle? wow.

(sarcastic) its the same exact thing. and havent you seen any videos? its extreme pogoing not just jumping up and down u dick

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1517453283

its alot more dangerous than unicycling, so id shut the hell up. (no offense to unicyclists, unicycling is one of my favorite sports)
Woah nice, that was so cool.

[monkeyman]

So basically, we all agree that while stuntpogoer may be good at extreme-pogoing (which he assures us is harder than unicycling), he still can't put together pedals/cranks. Why are we still talking? More importantly, why am I still posting?

[Spencer Hochberg]

So basically, we all agree that while stuntpogoer may be good at extreme-pogoing (which he assures us is harder than unicycling), he still can't put together pedals/cranks. Why are we still talking? More importantly, why am I still posting?
He didnt say it was harder than uniing, just more dangerous and I would agree if you are jumping over cars and doing huge flips and stuff.

[gordito8me]

right but does danger define a sport in it's entirety? No ones gives to craps if your sport is more dangerous if it's boring then it's not worth it. it's like running across the highway at rush hour. Dangerous, stupid, but not really that fun.

[ripst3v3]

idk personaly when u put a threaded object onto a bolt u usaly dont kepp threading it when u see metal coming out or when it doesnt go on at first or go on straight cuz im pretty sure it wasnt going on straight. but thats just me.

lol just playing ide prolly do the same thing

[stuntpogoer]

i never said pogoing is harder than unicycling. its just a shit load more dangerous, which is why im doing unicycling because i need to take a break from pogoing (my legs are fucked up).

[Jerrick]

I wouldn't say its more dangerous.

Equally sounds about right,

Concepts are about the same, tricks are somewhat the same.

On a pogo you can jump higher, which gives room for more tricks. If you could just like that on a unicycle, people would already be doing front and backflips. =p

Doing trials lines when your riding on a skinny, about 15 feet off the ground. One wrong fall and its all over. Specially for Kris Holm, when he rode on bridges and cliff edges.

I say its about equal. =p

[albino_gumby]

Apart from pedals for the most part being labelled, didn't you notice your pedals clicking as they unscrewed themselves when you rode? You fucked up, get over it and move on. Now i'm not doubting the extreme-ness of pogo (i watched the video and i was impressed) but if you want to give your legs a break (in a non-literal sense) i wouldn't suggest uni. I've been walking with a limp for 3 days because i screwed up a 180 unispin (I'm still learning).

[Jerrick]

Apart from pedals for the most part being labelled, didn't you notice your pedals clicking as they unscrewed themselves when you rode? You fucked up, get over it and move on. Now i'm not doubting the extreme-ness of pogo (i watched the video and i was impressed) but if you want to give your legs a break (in a non-literal sense) i wouldn't suggest uni. I've been walking with a limp for 3 days because i screwed up a 180 unispin (I'm still learning).

Ive had some falls that ended up me going to the hospital for x-rays. Luckily nothing was broken.

Right after the wreck though, I walked to my girlfriends house with her, but aobut half way to her house, I was already back on my unicycle with a possible broken ankle. Later that day, I met up with some other unicyclist and rode for another couple of hours, trying to clear an 8-set, and do other trials lines I saw.

I went to the hospital the next day, got a cast I had to wear, and then went unicycling the next day after that.

Syupid? Yes. Unicycling is jsut to addicting and fun to stop, no matter how bad im hurt.

[Evan Byrne]

You can take any sport to any level of danger.


Though you're good at that pogo, still doesn't explain why you cant read the L and R on your pedals.

[Jerrick]

You can take any sport to any level of danger.


Though you're good at that pogo, still doesn't explain why you cant read the L and R on your pedals.


Its really pathetic when bike shops put your stuff on wrong...

Oh, I spelled stupid as syupid up there, my mistake. lol

[brendan]

bike shop managed to put my tyres BOTH the wrong way round, Now it hardly matters but surely they would have looked??? they are crap anyways

[stuntpogoer]

well im not doing muni, i think its rlly boring... im doing street/freestyle.

which isnt dangerous because your on the ground most the time. on a pogo stick your in the air 6 feet jumping over and around the stick and etc.

and you fell bad from a 180 unispin? i landed that the day before my uni broke... and ive been uniing for 4 days..

[thejdw]

well im not doing muni, i think its rlly boring...
muni is far from boring:rolleyes:

[Borgschulze]

pogo companies dont suck and they stand by their products and send you new ones if something breaks.

plus im sponsored by motostik som theyll send me a new one on demand.
You know most cycling related sports have in the manual, something along the lines of this.

Must be assembled by a professional bike shop for a valid warranty.

[monkeyman]

You know most cycling related sports have in the manual, something along the lines of this.

Must be assembled by a professional bike shop for a valid warranty.

Hey, the guy pogos, and is therefore the God of Extreme Sports. Pogoing is more dangerous after all.

Just poking fun, don't get mad.

Get glad!

[dudewithasock]

and you fell bad from a 180 unispin? i landed that the day before my uni broke... and ive been uniing for 4 days..

That's the kind of remark I'd expect to hear from a skater.

[albino_gumby]

well im not doing muni, i think its rlly boring... im doing street/freestyle.

which isnt dangerous because your on the ground most the time. on a pogo stick your in the air 6 feet jumping over and around the stick and etc.

and you fell bad from a 180 unispin? i landed that the day before my uni broke... and ive been uniing for 4 days..

Ouch, i sense some hostility in them thar' post. Something tells me you're underestimating how dangerous street unicycle can be. Just because you set yourself on fire at ground level doesn't make it any less dangerous. Also, you don't have to keep justifying how dangerous pogo is, we know already.

[iridemymuni]

this thread is just crap


somebody had to say it.



unicycling is as dangerous as pogo sticking - refer to these pictures.

http://www.krisholm.com/english/images/index-Images/23.jpg

http://www.krisholm.com/english/images/index-Images/25.jpg


we dont care how fast you learned unispins stuntpogoer, dont pay out on albino gumby cause he cant learn as fast as you, you look like the right wanker when you do that.

at the end of the day, you fucked up your crank and pedals, it is entirely your fault, and that's just it.

[tomtrevor]

is pogoing really that dangerous? i mean yea you are 6 feet in the air a lot but some people ride 8ft - 16ft++++ giraffes alot. Far higher than you could ever get on a pogo stick.

[burjzyntski]

That second picture gives me goosebumps.

[brendan]

yep same here lol

[kington99]

Surely a sport is as dangerous as you decide to make it? both can have lethal consequences, it's your own choice how close to that you want to go, the argument seems redundant.

As for the whole pedal/crank stripping business, just chalk it up to experience, i wrecked my first pair of cranks by not keeping them tight enough, these things happen.

[stuntpogoer]

really???

so people do back/front flips on giraffes?

[tobbogonist]

look man, if you are going to bitch and complain about how bad our choosen sport is and say that yours is better then bugger off.

(well done on landing the 180 unispin though)
but dont be so bloody negative, take it on the chin.

[timbob1907]

Duh

[dale_dale]

really???

so people do back/front flips on giraffes?

no but people do them on there feet off buildings and the like, sure you could hurt yourself on your feet on your stick

but people also do things on unicycles that could hurt equaly as much, if you fall on your head form 6 foot does it matter what you was or wasnt riding your gonna hurt yourself.

skinny on a unicycle or flip on a pogo stick, there both daft as anything yet we all want to do it, so stop trying to make one sport look better and get some new cranks.

laters Dale

[stuntpogoer]

ok, so im buying new cranks for a torker LX.

can you guys give me a good suggestion off unicycle.com? like i have no idea what the mm is, i want the same size as the ones that are on there now (the stripped ones) and i dont want to spend alot of money. my max. is $30 (without shipping)

and also, is there a certain size pedal for unicycles? cuz i grabbed a pair of pedals out of my garage and they were too thin, they went right through.

[stuntpogoer]

ok, so im buying new cranks for a torker LX.

can you guys give me a good suggestion off unicycle.com? like i have no idea what the mm is, i want the same size as the ones that are on there now (the stripped ones) and i dont want to spend alot of money. my max. is $30 (without shipping)

and also, is there a certain size pedal for unicycles? cuz i grabbed a pair of pedals out of my garage and they were too thin, they went right through.

[Spencer Hochberg]

The lx comes with 127mm cranks...mm stands for millimeter.
You need pedals with 9/16 threads, they are the ones used for three piece cranks. The ones you found were 1/2" which are used on one piece cranks.

Here are all the cranks udc has in that size link (http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=2&subcat=77&cat=120%2D129+mm&L2=Crank+Arms+%26+Parts&L3=Cotterless+Cranks&L4=120%2D129+mm)
I would get the qu-ax ones probably, they are cheap.

[stuntpogoer]

is it just me, or do the qu-ax arms look short?

[Spencer Hochberg]

Well there are pictures of both lengths, the top ones are shorter than the bottom ones. The picture doesn't always mean much.

[The.Mars.Volta]

far out kris holm is insane. i wouldnt even consider riding that close to that massive cliff. oi what pogo dude what uni do you have cos i stripped my thread the other day. and i bought a new cranks a few days later. and i think you have the same uni as me. kbye

[The.Mars.Volta]

oh dont worry i actually read the last few posts. and yes you do have the same one as me. kbye

[stuntpogoer]

k i dont wanna buy cranks n shit offline, i wanna ride my uni NOW!!!

so do normal bike shops have cranks that will fit? is there like any difference between uni cranks and normal bike cranks?

[thejdw]

Oh, I spelled stupid as syupid up there, my mistake. lol
Don't hang your self!:p

[Spencer Hochberg]

k i dont wanna buy cranks n shit offline, i wanna ride my uni NOW!!!

so do normal bike shops have cranks that will fit? is there like any difference between uni cranks and normal bike cranks?
Any square taper bike crank will work but it is usually hard to find cranks short enough at a bike shop. Bikes have much longer cranks.

[Jerrick]

k i dont wanna buy cranks n shit offline, i wanna ride my uni NOW!!!

so do normal bike shops have cranks that will fit? is there like any difference between uni cranks and normal bike cranks?


Your lbs should have those cranks in the shop, or can get them in a few days.

I dont think they will cost you anything more then 20 dollars.

[uniredneck]

Hey, just a bit of difference between most cranks at a bike shop and uni-cranks.....the whole issue of Chainrings...sure you could just buy two non-drive side crankarms, but then your right side pedal would unscrew. Just get the ones off of Unicycle.com, calm down, and be pacient. I have the LX too, I suggest going ahead and buying something with a splined crankset since it seems you wanna do a more than an LX can handle.

[gordito8me]

I still can't believe that this thread is still going.

[tobbogonist]

It's not, you killed it

[stuntpogoer]

hey, i just got my cranks and pedals, took off the nuts that attach the cranks to the frame, and i dont know how to get them off from here.. i figured theyd slide out pretty easy but they wont, should i just hit it with a hammer or something?

[gordito8me]

hey, i just got my cranks and pedals, took off the nuts that attach the cranks to the frame, and i dont know how to get them off from here.. i figured theyd slide out pretty easy but they wont, should i just hit it with a hammer or something?

no don't hit it with a hammer! what kind of technique is that? you need a crank puller. Most people don't have a crank puller and you probably don't either so go to your lbs and ask them to take the cranks off. I'm sure they won't charge anything for it. So in conclusion, hammer=bad crankpuller=good

[stuntpogoer]

NEW POGO VIDEO

leftover footage that is nowhere near good enough for the pogo cults new video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQYbKdzcbj8

[gordito8me]

freestyle tricks on a pogo stick are alot easier than on a unicycle I recently discovered...:rolleyes:

[UniMOG]

All i can say is Ha HA that sucks, live and learn. :D

[stuntpogoer]

you got footy of doing freestyle tricks on a pogo stick?

and i already said... thats leftover footage, thats the crappy footage thats not ogod enough to go into the newest video :rolleyes:

[Hazmat]

I wonder if it's possible to create a pogo stick unicycle. Hmmmm :p :p

[tobbogonist]

i dunno, but this guy is probably like the best pogo stick rider probably in the world and probably is better than us on unicycles. probably

[gordito8me]

i dunno, but this guy is probably like the best pogo stick rider probably in the world and probably is better than us on unicycles. probably

brown noser...

[stuntpogoer]

http://download.yousendit.com/987AED4E20FFA4C8

stick flip attempts. the trick has never been landed before.

enjoi!

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

sweet! you should post these in the video forum!

[timbob1907]

Are any of those of you? Cause if it is good job but if not thats kinda weird.

[agentQ]

man you realy arnt impressive on a pogo stick, no style, bad music, lame tricks, and this is a unicyle fourm. weak man.

[bungalistic]

How is this anything to do with Unicycle Product Reviews?

[CKCrowe]

mine says left and right on it, all 7 of mine do.

[Evan Byrne]

NEW POGO VIDEO

leftover footage that is nowhere near good enough for the pogo cults new video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQYbKdzcbj8



Too many setup hops.

[mornish]

Too many setup hops.

EB OWNED!

[timbob1907]

:p yeah...

[stuntpogoer]

umm... yea, of course they are me.

[mouse]

this thread is made of long and unrelated.

In conclusion, the Torker LX crankset and pedal set provide a decent platform for entry level unicyclists however are only effective when setup properly.

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