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Question: Which is you favorite frame?

- Curved (schwinn, coker, united, suns)
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Ok I was wondering which are the best in your opinion?

Curved frames like coker or schwinn?

Or straight frames like yuni and kh?

i prefer curved and I'll tell you why. When you do big jumps on the
straight ones there is a risk of the stem (that's what i call it)
breaking the fork down the middle.

With the curved one there's really no place weaker than another just
wondering what you thought.


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Niether is truely best, but I prefer straight on everything so I can
glide, wheelwalk and one foot it more easily, however alot of people use
round and do the same. I've never tried a round frame for more than a
few minutes so ireally wouldn't know. Once after a really, long ride mt
crank fell off so i was able to ride the street portion of the way home,
instead of looking funny taking my UNI for a walk. And not much weight
is applied through the "stem" of the uni unless you land on your saddle
instead of absorbing through the legs, and the chances of that breaking
the "stem" are like 1 in 10^10^10.


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Catboy, while I agree with what you say. I would argue that there aren't
even 10^10^10 unicycles in the world. Or even in the universe.


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Having a rounded frame makes beginer freestyle more difficult and expert
freestyle impossible!

With 1ft riding and 1ft ww etc. you can do it leg extended...its not
that much harder, but there is no way you could coast or do any stand up
tricks on a rounded frame.

Of course it doesn't matter so much if you do trials, street or muni.
Dan Doerksen uses a rounded frame in Universe 2 and look how good he is.
I think he's the only really good rider that uses one though.


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All depends on style tho doesn't it? Dan Doerksen's style in U2 didn't
involve any need for a place to put a foot. But Dan Heaton's frame on
the other hand suited him. Is Dan Doeksen's a custom made frame? I
noticed the seat stem is really short and looked thicker than 22.2mm.
Actually it seemed to me that one of his seats had the post really close
to the handle... tho it may have just been the angle. Nice frame/uni
either way!


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I thought it was just a nimbus but like a 24" frame not a 20" tbh.
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Straight, although I've never used a curved one. Do curved ones have any
advantages?

David


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darchibald wrote:
*Straight, although I've never used a curved one. Do curved ones have
any advantages?

David *


There is a much smaller chance of hitting your knees on round frames.
This is one thing that I had to get used to when riding my MUni w/Nimbus
frame.

As stated earlier, frame strength is not much of a factor (unless you
are talking lollipop frames *shudder*).

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Rayden wrote:
*Catboy, while I agree with what you say. I would argue that there
aren't even 10^10^10 unicycles in the world. Or even in the universe.
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I didn't say there was, I was saying the chances of the "stem" of a uni
breaking are 10^10^10 and since there aren't that many in the world your
chances are infintecimal, and therefore not an issue.


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As stated earlier, frame strength is not much of a factor (unless you
are talking lollipop frames *shudder*).

I'm sure Dan Heaton's frame in U2 has lollipop bearing holders and he
does some HUGE drops. Though I think his frame is titanium if that makes
any difference to the lollies?


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