How do you store your EUC? Show your stands!

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My simple stands. I like having the 18L with tire on something so I can turn it on while in the stand and not have it go berserk and become dangerous by freewheeling. The smaller stand is just a couple boards with rubber feet on the bottom.

[travsformation]

1 hour ago, ShanesPlanet said:

My simple stands. I like having the 18L with tire on something so I can turn it on while in the stand and not have it go berserk and become dangerous by freewheeling. The smaller stand is just a couple boards with rubber feet on the bottom.

Simple often works best

Looks like the 18L has tried to go berserk but didn't manage to escape

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1 minute ago, travsformation said:

Simple often works best

Looks like the 18L has tried to go berserk but didn't manage to escape

Yeah buddy!! Nuthin like the smell of burnt rubber, to set the mood. The 18 stand had foam in those grooves. Turned out it was a TAD too much lift and wet tire let it spin. Scary as hell and it aint balanced at warp speed. I removed the pads and routed the grooves a shade more. It rests on its tire with a tiny gap. It stays in the grooves, but it has enough play so i can power it up and it doesnt fight the stand.

[DjPanJan]

Modular Stand  Europe Style.
Threaded Rod M12, 8 x Washers (40mm) 4 nuts + 4 nuts with wings,
Dried wood 2 cm width. 18cm height. Length 30 cm
The stand is very stable and on a flat surface it can calibrate a unicycle very accurately.

[Rehab1]

3 hours ago, ShanesPlanet said:

I like having the 18L with tire on something so I can turn it on while in the stand and not have it go berserk and become dangerous by freewheeling.

Funny! I did the stupid and accidentally bump the switch on my V10F while it was stationed on it’s elevated stand. The wheel tried to climb the wall for a brief second. My drywall now has black skid marks. 

[Joker10]

Courtesy ks16s and an oops, I picked it up better put it down to stop it from spinning.  

[RockyTop]

1 hour ago, Joker10 said:

Courtesy ks16s and an oops, I picked it up better put it down to stop it from spinning.  

We probably all have a mark at home somewhere like that. Mine is on the carpet in the den....... Also KS16s.

[travsformation]

2 hours ago, Rehab1 said:

The wheel tried to climb the wall for a brief second. My drywall now has black skid marks. 

Your variation is unique indeed! A whole new meaning to the expression "going up the wall"

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wow! And now i am overjoyed at my stand taking the brunt of it. My floors take an ass kicking as it is..  wall to wall 50yr old hardwood and it looks it. Course a long burnout could be cool too. Even now, lifting the wheel as it goes crazy, still makes me nervous. The little mten ... not so much. 

[travsformation]

1 hour ago, RockyTop said:

We probably all have a mark at home somewhere like that. Mine is on the carpet in the den....... Also KS16s

On a carpet, yikes! At least on a hardwood floor you get bragging rights with the whole black skid mark...

Mine's in my RV...the lift sensor on 1st batch 18XLs is known to be unreliable, but mine is particularly treacherous and would beep, wait until I'd picked it up and taken a few steps, and then start free-spinning once my guard was down. I'd just gotten back from grocery shopping, couldn't be bothered to lower the RV's footstep, had a shopping bag in one hand and was loading the wheel into the the RV with the other when the it started spinning, with my arm at a near 90º angle so...not a chance of maintaining that position until it ran out of steam. Sneaky little sh*t...

[Lefteris]

4 hours ago, RockyTop said:

We probably all have a mark at home somewhere like that. Mine is on the carpet in the den....... Also KS16s.

About marks, i had a mark on the wall since 2015, we've repainted the house recently and now the wife get crazy.

So i'm trying to find a spli-flower pot like this

 

Cause it may the "the" solution to our problem  

[Joker10]

wow That flower pot looks like it works good.  I am going to look around for one of those to try.  

[Lefteris]

I got one better for you @Joker10

Just bought it from a local retailer for 14€ with shipping!!

[travsformation]

3 hours ago, Lefteris said:

Just bought it from a local retailer for 14€ with shipping!!

NICE! What a discovery! I can already imagine the headlines: "Garden centers overwhelmed by hoards of electric unicyclers buying flower pots. What are they scheming?"

Edited March 12, 2020 by travsformation

[RockyTop]

7 minutes ago, travsformation said:

NICE! What discovery! I can already imagine the headlines: "Garden centers overwhelmed by hoards of electric unicyclers buying flower pots. What are they scheming?"

They are probably using them to soak there feet in with a little bath salt. I here that those Uni-wheels are rough on the feet. ...... Or they are coming up some kind of new drugs. I would not put it past them. As they say round these parts- “They ain’t Right!l 

[Lefteris]

I"m so glad you like the idea  

[Rehab1]

2 hours ago, Lefteris said:

I"m so glad you like the idea  

 Very pretty!

 

[Lefteris]

2 hours ago, Rehab1 said:

 Very pretty!

 

ahahHAHAHAHAHAHAH this is just epic!!!  

[RockyTop]

3 hours ago, Rehab1 said:

 Very pretty!

 

This. Might attract more women into the wheeling world but we might want to go a little smaller. 
 

6 hours ago, Lefteris said:

I"m so glad you like the idea  

Hey! If it works, I love it. I am a Utilitarian. 

[Lefteris]

It "will" work!

[SamSuffit]

I use this stand for motobikes and I am happy about it (reasonably priced for a solid, adjustable, ready to use, no need to lift the wheel stand / dock):

More details here with picture and video of what it look likes on a KS16X:  https://www.espritroue.fr/topic/11961-support-stand-costaud-pour-gyroroue-et-sans-soulever/

Edited March 15, 2020 by SamSuffit

[mike_bike_kite]

I like the flower pot solution! I use a 3D printed stand that works quite well. I've been reading about 3D printing for ages so I was quite keen to try it out but I had to use someone else with a printer. It took 48 hours to print but I'm happy with the result. I previously tried using a guitar stand to hold the wheel but it just bent so I wasn't very impressed. At the very least the printed stand allows me to put the wheel somewhere prominent in the house rather than hidden behind a sofa.

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Thats cool Mike! I was just thinking the other day... I wonder if 3-d printers are $100 yet? Sounds like a tinkerers dream. 48 hrs to print? Wow!

[mike_bike_kite]

Printers go from about $200 up. Obviously this is a fairly large thing to print as it's all one piece so a printer would need to have a printing area large enough. I was really surprised by how smooth all the surfaces were. You can print all sorts of stuff for EUC's from mudguards to light surround to stands. I don't know whether it's worth buying a printer to just print a few items as there are many people out there who will print them for you and post the finished item to you (for money obviously). I was charged about £20 for the stand and I think that;s pretty good value. It was quite difficult trying to decide which stand to go for as you can't try it out (even virtually). I imagine it won't be long before we can print all sorts of household items, spare parts for motorcycles etc etc.

[Lefteris]

If you want to 3d print something once you can do it locally, there are shops that receive the file over the internet and even send it to you. I could have 3d printed the stand, but it would have cost me about ±35€, and i choose the flower pot cause it has this feature that i can change size to fit any wheel, so.