Re: I want my unicycle as light as possible


-Ride barefoot, Shoes are for losers and sissies.
-titanium, 18 gua. spokes with "alloy" (al.) nipples
-a hub with more holes than Bush's economic policy
-pedals that only extend out 1/2 as far as normal. It'll knock down on
pedal hits, aswell.
-titanium, smaller diameter pedal spindle
-screw a seatpost clamp, use epoxy.
-babbitt plain bearings, none of this newfangled steel stuff going on.
-2" dia. legs for the frame, with 0.002" wall thickness. material?
Magnesium. if you still need more stiffness, compress 200 PSI of H into
the thing.
-no pads in seat, but no seatframe, either. Just two curved tubes.

Then, when you're done, go whine about how it's still not light enough
and after all that money you spent, your riding still sucks.

As for drilling, i get the feeling that people who have never drilled a
frame are the ones who advocate it. Harper's muni frame is solid
freakin' aluminum, one of the most easily milled and drilled materials
in the industry. It's designed around drilling. Tubes are designed to
be tubes, not swiss cheese. If drilling holes helped so much, why don't
we see trials bikers with drilled forks? They have been known to go so
far as to chop knobbies off the tire, so I'm sure they've thought of
this one. Any weight savings by hole drilling could easily be done by
thinning wall thickness initially.

A drilled seatpost will lose a ton of torsional stiffness, among other
things.


--
gerblefranklin

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/Trials-Muni

Nick's main man.

"I love freedom dearly, ideally, in theory, but in reality we're not
there yet--Not nearly."--Cold Duck Complex
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