Choose Your Weapon or Collect Them All?

[c9ollie]

my 3 weapons,

nimbus trials
nimbus 26er
coker big one

I feel I can do everything with these 3. Its really fun having a broad skill set.

[UNIROX]

Originally Posted by c9ollie

my 3 weapons,

nimbus trials
nimbus 26er
coker big one

I feel I can do everything with these 3. Its really fun having a broad skill set.

And where is the photo? It's make a nice shot as the wheels are quite different in size!

[deadbeatpope]

Originally Posted by c9ollie

my 3 weapons,

nimbus trials
nimbus 26er
coker big one

I feel I can do everything with these 3. Its really fun having a broad skill set.

There must be some sort of stair stepping, wheel walking, uni transfer routine in there somewhere.

[deadbeatpope]

JohnFoss - Just noticed the chrome one with a handlebar in place of the seat. What a tiring little monkey ride that must be!

I'll try to get a pic together soon....

[johnfoss]

Originally Posted by UNIROX

John - what's that uni in the 3rd picture to the right that looks like a disc wheel - with the swirly red, blue and cream colours?

That's an Oxford; a Japanese unicycle from the 70s. USA founder Bill Jenack used to sell them out of his garage. That one was assembled from loose parts in the Jenack garage and attic after he died (1982). I hope to have it in a museum someday, with a collection of Bill Jenack's photos and a story about him.

The wheel insert is a cardboard thing that Bill's youth unicycling group, the Jenack Cycles, used to use in their shows. When the wheel spins, it makes a cool pattern. I have some "new" ones still in the package, for if that uni ever makes it into a museum. They're buried in my garage, but I think the product name was "Bicyclones".

Originally Posted by deadbeatpope

JohnFoss - Just noticed the chrome one with a handlebar in place of the seat. What a tiring little monkey ride that must be!

Monkey ride? Uh, monkey ride? I'm trying to figure out if I've just been compared to a clown or circus performer...

Anyway, that one is a Miyata 20" with some BMX handlebars on it. Mostly you push it from a regular unicycle, but eventually you jump from the regular uni onto it, and ride it around a bit (in a show). I always wanted to learn to jump over the handlebar and land my feet back on the pedals in front, but then my old handlebar uni died and I got something with much higher handlebars...

Originally Posted by aarons

That argument got way over heated and now they're spamming the whole forum.

Only one of them is spamming the whole forum. It's sad.

[deadbeatpope]

Originally Posted by johnfoss

Monkey ride? Uh, monkey ride? I'm trying to figure out if I've just been compared to a clown or circus performer...

I wasn't insinuating that at all... Just think it would make for a funky little motion. So yeah, "tiring little monkey ride". Not sure of the proper term for this in English or Pig Latin.

Don't let it rub you wrong. I am a fan of the little device.

[Dane M]

you know you can also take the frame off a bmx bike, and have an impossible wheel with handlebars.... with pegs of course

[deadbeatpope]

Originally Posted by Dane M

you know you can also take the frame off a bmx bike, and have an impossible wheel with handlebars.... with pegs of course

You would have to replace the steering tube to hold the stem and forks together. Didn't somebody have something like that around here?

[Dane M]

you can find videos of people doing it, I just don't know what to search for.

[deadbeatpope]

Having to pedal while holding on to that thing changes everything I'm sure. Try to keep a hot pizza on your back at the same time and man oh man I should shut up.

[feel the light]

Originally Posted by johnfoss

Me with my fleet:
This wasn't set up as a nice picture of me with my unicycles; I was in the process of taking them down off the ceiling Otherwise I wouldn't have the laundry hanging in the background, etc. Most of my unicycles (in 2003) are shown.

In the back you can see my Coker and 45" wheel. My ultimate wheel was custom cut with two "Uni-Cyclone" shapes cut out of it. The third picture shows the giraffes: Schwinn, a custom 5', and a Unicycle Factory 9' with articulated step. The step makes it possible to freemount the thing, though I haven't attempted that in many years.

This is John Foss, wearing his last pair of clean clothes, 3 years ago, before abandoning access to his washer, under a growing clutter of unicycles.

Despite the fact that many of the unicycles are more painful to ride than to look at , and some are also unhealthy, he cannot discard them.

His house is now now unlivable. The stench of ageing rubber and greased metal permeates the place like a motorcycle shop. John claims not to notice.

Over the years, his friends dwindled off. Family stopped coming unless they could be on TV. . But when even the trials riders weren't able to make it to the front door, he is forced to admit he sometimes has to walk himself. We are here to help him.

Next episode of "hoarders" , John Foss.

[deadbeatpope]

Finally got a free minute to pull the toys out for a shot. These all get used.

Not pictured are a couple of 20" BMX frames and a 29" BMX bike known as 'Big Ripper'. These items are all new in box.

Also not pictured are my wife's bikes. We have a crowded garage but not to the John Foss level by any stretch.

[johnfoss]

I think FTL has me confused with Tommy Miller?

[Nasher]

After seeing John Foss's photos, Im almost ashamed to be posting on this thread.

Lidl special - for training newbies
Trials/Street
20 year old Sem 26
Nimbus Muni 26
Giraffe (Pic out of date, now have a Nimbus performer)


Next maybe a 12" with extra long seat post and/or a 36 - not sure whether I would have time to ride them all - so maybe, for me, 5 is enough........



Nasher

[knoxuni]

i have a k1 trials a 20in lerner and a 24muni and a 5ft Giraffe.