{"id":312,"date":"2012-01-15T22:12:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2012-01-15T22:12:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:12:37","slug":"an-explanation-thats-sure-not-to-explain-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/2012\/01\/15\/an-explanation-thats-sure-not-to-explain-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"An Explanation That’s Sure Not to Explain Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so here’s my brilliant idea.\u00a0 I saw a picture of the Magic Wheel<\/a> on 100+ Project<\/a>‘s Facebook page<\/a> and I thought, “Isn’t that a silly thing!”\u00a0 Then I thought, “Hmm, maybe I should take one of them things with me for going down the mountains; could be worth the weight.”\u00a0 Then, “Hold on… it has one wheel…. I have one wheel…. What’s stopping me from making my one wheel into ‘that’ one wheel for going down the hills?<\/p>\n

Are you lost yet?\u00a0 Well, if not, what’s to come is sure to lead you into the maze.\u00a0 The idea is that if I’m able to construct a ‘standing platform’ on either side of the wheel, I can stand over the wheel, with my feet below the hub, while holding onto the seat [for dear life] in front of me.\u00a0 With my weight ‘hanging’ from below the hub, balance should be improved and I should theoretically be able to coast (that’s how things work in my mind at least).\u00a0 And with my brake, I should be able to control my speed.\u00a0 So what I’d have is the beauty of coasting on a unicycle, without having to develop Kris Holm<\/a> like skills.<\/p>\n

So, naturally, there are some hurdles to overcome.\u00a0 Firstly, I’d need to remove the cranks and pedals to coast downhill.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well, on a unicycle, when the wheel turns, the crank arms and pedals turn – they’d just be in the way, in a big way.\u00a0 So, I’d have to replace the crank arms, possibly with ‘freely hanging’ crank arms and swap out the pedals every time I wanted to coast downhill.\u00a0 Another problem is that I’d probably want to find a way to shield my inner thighs (and other anatomy) from the rapidly rotating knobby tire below (read serrated knife \/ grinding wheel).<\/p>\n

So there you have it.\u00a0 IF I can pull this together, and assuming it works after put together, my life on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route will be sooo much easier (I’m not cheating am I?)<\/p>\n

Knees rejoice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so here’s my brilliant idea.\u00a0 I saw a picture of the Magic Wheel on 100+ Project‘s Facebook page and I thought, “Isn’t that a silly thing!”\u00a0 Then I thought, “Hmm, maybe I should take one of them things with me for going down the mountains; could be worth the weight.”\u00a0 Then, “Hold on… it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}