Tennis Shoe Unicycles. Experience anyone?

[beelzebub of balance]

Whenever I look in on the Unicycle Factory Website I'm drawn again to
those tennis shoe unicycles--the ones where the "wheel" has spokes that
end in tennis shoes, rather than a rim or tire.

How hard are these to ride? Are they usually 20 inch or does anyone have
experience with larger diameters?

How about shoes other than tennis shoes. My wife thinks I'd have to have
a "loafer".

David Maxfield


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[leo]

Once rode a 24"

They are NOT hard to ride, but not very comfortable for you b*tt.
Especially not if you are hired to ride around for hours on this uni.


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[john_childs]

I believe Darren Bedford has one and Sem may have one. I'm sure there
are others spread out throughout the US. If you want to try one you may
have to plan a road trip. :)

Those shoe wheel unicycles are quite interesting novelty unicycles. The
kind of strange novelty unicycle that sticks out. Probably a real
eye-catcher for a parade.

I too would like to try one just to see what it's like to ride one.


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[spyder]

'Here's a picture of Darren on his.' (http://tinyurl.com/3s4w5)


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[TheBadger587]

is idling/backwards possible on one of those?
wheel walking would be interesting


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[leo]

TheBadger587 wrote:
> is idling/backwards possible on one of those?
Depends mostly on the rider.

me on a 6 feet unicycle made by 'Semcycle' (http://www.semcycle.com/):


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[zod]

I have a friend right up the road that has one but I have never tried to
ride it.......I gotta give is a shot sometime.

His is old and made out of thick steel, the things gotta weigh a good
30+ pounds!

Here's it is

[image:
http://www.marklippard.com/images/corporate/performance_2_pic.gif]


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[bugman]

zod wrote:
> *I have a friend right up the road that has one but I have never tried
> to ride it.......I gotta give is a shot sometime.
>
> His is old and made out of thick steel, the things gotta weigh a good
> 30+ pounds!
>
> Here's it is
>
> [image:
> http://www.marklippard.com/images/corporate/performance_2_pic.gif] *


Is that Mark Lippard?


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[leo]

This is the most current model of 'semcycle'
(http://www.semcycle.com/).
It can be used both as direct driven as well as giraffe.


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[zod]

bugman wrote:
> *
>
> Is that Mark Lippard? *


Yep, that be the 15' Giraffe riding man!! :D


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[leo]

I have an alt.:


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[Klaas Bil]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:13:15 -0500, "leo" wrote:

>I have an alt.:

Now that is great. How many feet are there all around? Do you beat the
world record of Sem on his 115 ft unicycle? (Supposing the tyre would
be yours and on a uni.)

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[bobgob]

i have to make a giraffe out of oe of those...


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