Re: Weird things.
Jock Young (youngwis@eburg.com)
Sun, 3 Nov 1996 01:57:18 -0800
At 08:16 PM 11/1/96 +0800, you wrote:
>I know that you can ride kangaroo and 90 degree crank arms, but has
>anybody tried other (stupid) things like different length crank arms, or
>slightly skewed cranks - an angle of less than 90 degrees. While I know
>most cranks only allow 90 degree orientations, i'm sure if you have
>suspension seats and carbon fibre unicycles, you can work out a way to do
>something wwierd.
>
Tom Miller of the Unicycle Factory has a giraffe uni with two chains and
drive sprockets of slightly different sizes. This causes the cranks to turn
at different rates. The cranks go from opposite to 90 degree to kangaroo to
the other 90 degree and back to opposite in about 7 revolutions of one crank
and 8 revolutions of the other. I didn't master it in the few tries I had at
the 1994 National Unicycle Meet.
Jock Young