{"id":1288,"date":"2010-03-15T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/recumbent-unicycle\/"},"modified":"2018-10-28T18:21:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T01:21:54","slug":"recumbent-unicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/recumbent-unicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Recumbent Unicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<div class=\"landscape\">\n  <a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8010-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"IMG_8010.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lanscape_shadow\"><\/div>\n<p>Not a pretty beast, and not easy to ride. It took me thee weeks of practice before I could ride it, and only after that could I &#8220;sort of&#8221; ride it. No free mounting or anything crazy like that. The balance point is just crazy difficult compared to a regular unicycle.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of me riding it on 1\/31\/2010:<\/p>\n<div class=\"videowrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xt-AQMNBRoM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>I still plan to &#8220;shine it up&#8221; and build a small backrest. I originally wanted a nice large backrest, but I decided that it would hinder the ride ability of it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the building process, which went together really fast (it is a hack):<\/p>\n<p>Cut up a bike and figure out roughly where I wanted things:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_7987.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_7987-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"IMG_7987.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All trial and error, with some guessing:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_7990.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_7990-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"IMG_7990.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weld a seat together out of some old bike tubes:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8001-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"IMG_8001.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weld it all together and cover the seat:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8009-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"IMG_8009.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_8012-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"IMG_8012.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;not too elegant of &#8220;steps&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a pretty beast, and not easy to ride. It took me thee weeks of practice before I could ride it, and only after that could I &#8220;sort of&#8221; ride it. No free mounting or&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/recumbent-unicycle\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[123,18],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machining","category-unicycling","tag-recumbent-unicycle","tag-unicycle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}