Unicycles

SimonAH

Couldn't find the old.thread.

How're you gettin' on JZ? I'm 3 hours in the saddle and riding about 10ft before crashing.

Self imposed 14th August deadline to crack this.

SimonAH

Forgot to mention BTW I have discovered the signature UC move. With a fixie it's the dismiunt, with a UC it's hanging it on the bar nonchalantly and fending off the chicks.

Chicks dig unicycles.

jzed

Haven't really had much time to practice - need to find somewhere secluded so i don't lo like an idiot. First attempt - shinned. Second attempt - nearly put the unicycle through my front door.

SimonAH

I have the solution to the looking like an idiot thing. "Yes I do look like a Dick, but soon I'll look like a Dick that knows how to ride a unicycle, whereas you will still be a cnut".

Worked twice today. Helps if you're biggish though

asprilla

Is the 14th the deadline so you can decide whether to ride it in the London-Surrey Classic?

craker

chaps, I've missed the original thread. Having just resurrected my 'UC' can you give me some tips for moving on from the Just Falling Off And Hurting Wrists / Ankles / Arse stage to something more worthy? I might try and erect some parallel bars to give me support for example.

SimonAH

Asprilla, I'm there dude. Haha, not! No, it's to p1ss off my slightly younger and far wealthier brother who got into cycling before I did and was sneeringly dismissing of my slicked MTB BSO. Meeting him on holiday in Bermuda.

:Mr Si,

Loads of good stuff on the net, but what's working for.me is sitting and rocking a LOT then baby stepping with a handy railing. Rocking gets your balance in. The mental crutch is that it's typically 15 hours of saddle time to ride - I figure that beating the curve is the challenge and the measure of success.

Applespider

At Uni, I once saw someone on a unicycle with a set of ski poles in their hands as they learned. I never saw them after that so not sure how kosher a training method it is...

You're taking the unicycle to Bermuda?! :shock:

shouldbeinbed

Yes but can any of you fart whilst unicycling?

jimmcdonnell

SimonAH wrote:

but what's working for.me is sitting and rocking a LOT then baby stepping with a handy railing. Rocking gets your balance in.

Out of interest, is that rocking with feet at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock (as seems most natural to me) or at 12 & 6 o'clock as web video tutorials suggest? And do you practicing lef tand right footed too?

moonio

Any plans for penny farthing commuting, it would be great, although I'm not sure how you could stop at a traffic light and remain in the saddle... :?

SimonAH

Hi Jim, rocking at six and twelve using the lower foot to power the rock, do this a hundred or so times and then swap to the other foot. It sort of 'centers' you on the UC.

Moonio, this is the dream! I intend to do my commute (just once) on the UC - at which point I can put it away in the garage with the knowledge that "I can ride a unicycle" and have nothing left to prove. I would have thought that, what with PFings being essentially a UC with a stabiliser it should be even easier to balance stationary? No doubt someone here will correct me.

sketchley

JZed wrote:

Haven't really had much time to practice - need to find somewhere secluded so i don't lo like an idiot. First attempt - shinned. Second attempt - nearly put the unicycle through my front door.

Morpeth?

Jay dubbleU

moonio wrote:

Any plans for penny farthing commuting, it would be great, although I'm not sure how you could stop at a traffic light and remain in the saddle... :?

Track stand of course - pennyfarthings are fixies

moonio

Yes I guess thats how these guys did it
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//RTV/ ... TV1653511/

they cycled on Penny Farthings from Paris to London

Confusedboy

But surely, Penny Farthings are not legal tender in the Eurozone?