- I bought a second-hand unicycle with my own money in eighth grade and spent nearly all of high school trying to ride it well.
At my best, I could ride forward with no problem, but never quite mastered how to remain in one spot by rocking back and forth.
The answer to the "Does it hurt?" question is very accurate. There's just no getting around the fact that the saddle is going to be mildly uncomfortable all the time, and more than mildly uncomfortable the longer you ride.
But I was surprised that one question does not appear among his FAQs, because it is one that comes readily to mind to me.
"Does it help with the ladies?"
The answer is a resounding no. It does not help with the ladies.
by y-curious
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- When I was hiking in Joaquin Miller park in Oakland, I saw a man on a dirt bike version of a unicycle. He had just finished a route that I wouldn’t do as a novice mountain biker.
Learning that unicycles don’t have suspension has made that memory even more surprising. I want to understand the motivations, which were not addressed in this FAQ.
- I think the best heckle I had while riding my unicycle was from a policeman who shouted "Are your brakes working?"
(In the UK you are required by law to have working brakes on a bicycle. My unicycle had no brakes at all! Though slowing down was never a problem with the fixed wheel drive.)
by codethief
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- Unrelated but I really like the table of contents on the left! I first came across this type of in-article navigation last week on this magnificent website: https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/shaders
- When I was a teenager I borrowed a unicycle for the weekend from a friend at school. I practiced obsessively the whole weekend long and by Sunday afternoon I was able to go to the end of my street, turn around and come back. That Monday I returned the unicycle to my friend and never rode one again.
Later in life I made a concerted effort to learn how to manual a bicycle, and after a couple seasons of regular practice I gave up, I never really got the knack for it.
by gloxkiqcza
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- Is it a viable way of short to mid distance urban transport? Can you bunny-hop it to overcome e.g. curbs?
I’ve learned to appreciate simplicity in machines. For a long time I thought of a skateboard as the simplest one for transport but this got me thinking.
- I would like to add "middle aged dads at campgrounds" as a frequent asker of the "Where's the other wheel" question.
- I always wanted to be able to ride a unicycle. Picked one up in my late twenties and spent a lot of time with it in our garage. Never was able to balance for more than maybe ten seconds. Forward movement wasn't happening.
Well over a decade later I'm thinking I probably should have had more space to move around, and start with moving, not balancing. I did it in the garage because I was terrified to fall and I could grab the walls or rafters.
- I met the inventor of the "luny cycle" which is two unicycles connected with a shaft that has attaches with universal joints and swivle joint on each seat post.
He had a web site that is gone (15 yr), with video etc, with various manouvers, like one rider going strait, with the second, orbiting there progress.
said his home base was the North mountain, Nova Scotia
- If you want to learn how to unicycle, and you speak Spanish, you may be interested in a booklet I wrote about how to learn to unicycle when my kids were learning: https://juanreyero.com/monociclo/
I have used the technique to teach other people, and it works surprisingly well.
- This reminds me of this excellent article:
Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicycling
Sam Shuster compares men and women’s responses to the sight of a unicyclist
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2151169/
- A long time ago I was out for a ride with some friends. A guy on a unicycle ran into us and rode with us for 20 miles (~25km).
He was riding across country (US) and his setup was amazing, his wheel was maybe 700x35, his things were packed under his seat.
He had a WEB site but sadly I lost the link :(
- "Which Engineering degree are you studying?"
- I would pick up unicycling again but I live on a fairly steep hill, rendering it less convenient.
- I'd love to know more about Unicycling. Is it just my browser, or is anyone else seeing the huge black Q letter or magnifying glass icon that occupies 2/3 of the screen?
by opengrass
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- How do you downhill?
by dorianmariecom
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- matches my experience with the unicycle
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