help needed for building a Giraffe

Silvia de Beer (sgmd@jb.man.ac.uk)
Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:35:25 +0100 (BST)

After I joined the juggling club and learned to ride the unicycle, we
made our unicycles from parts of old bicycles and metal. Now we are
making a Giraffe, initially we want to make one wich is only 50 cm
higher. After some discussion with others rose the question whether you
should do something to keep the chain on tension, and if so, how you
could do it.

My question is, has somebody experience with building a Giraffe, and can
give us some advice? We heard for example that bought Giraffes have two
chains. Is this always the case? Is it satisfactory for our Giraffe if we
build it with one chain?
Won't we have problems with rocking forwards and backwards in that case?

Thank you very much for your advice.

Silvia

Silvia de Beer
JIVE
University of Manchester, NRAL, Jodrell Bank
Macclesfield SK11 9PL, UK.
email : sgmd@jb.man.ac.uk
tel : Lower Withington 01477 - 571321