Cross training

Welcome to the forums!!

What MTB do you do, is it more recreational or are you more
professional? maybe in the middle somewhere? lol

For getting better at riding your wheelies, I'm not sure how much a
unicycle will help, seeing how the balancing from doing a wheelie and
riding a uni are pretty different in some ways, but in some ways they
are the same, and doing one should somewhat help the other. =p

What tricks are you gonna try to learn? Learning to ride SIF (seat in
front), hopping SIF, regular hops, and rolling hops are good to
practice, 180s are pretty easy to do once you get good at hopping,
riding backwards, idling, riding one-footed. Those are some basic
things you can start working on. =p

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grav1ty_racing said:

I race cars and this will be my new "pit bike" to get around on. It fits
better in my car than the big bike.

You'll be a hit at the races! Welcome to the world of unicycling.

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A wheelie 4 miles long hmmmm.... sounds very difficult
For me that'd be much much harder than riding a unicyle because of the
extra weight of the front wheel and handlebars etc
good effort

you might think of unicycling as a way to improve your MTB'ing
but you also might get to like it heaps and heaps
good luck

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I think mountain biking and automobile racing will both compliment your
unicycle riding.

The connection with MTBing is more clear, but the nerves and judgment
you probably exercise while racing both help your uni skills
tremendously. I think many of the advanced skills require keeping your
head while letting your intuition and innate sense of body mechanics
take over.

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Jerrick said:

Welcome to the forums!!

What MTB do you do, is it more recreational or are you more
professional? maybe in the middle somewhere? lol

For getting better at riding your wheelies, I'm not sure how much a
unicycle will help, seeing how the balancing from doing a wheelie and
riding a uni are pretty different in some ways, but in some ways they
are the same, and doing one should somewhat help the other. =p

What tricks are you gonna try to learn? Learning to ride SIF (seat in
front), hopping SIF, regular hops, and rolling hops are good to
practice, 180s are pretty easy to do once you get good at hopping,
riding backwards, idling, riding one-footed. Those are some basic
things you can start working on. =p

I am more the recreational racer.... Wish I could get paied for racing.
I like doing a lot of freeride and street stuff on the bike, I will be
doing mostly street stuff on the uni. Thanks for the list to learn....

U-Turn said:

You'll be a hit at the races! Welcome to the world of unicycling.

Can't be too much worst than the cars around my home... No one in my
city can drive!

one wheely said:

you might think of unicycling as a way to improve your MTB'ing
but you also might get to like it heaps and heaps
good luck

heheh, I do like it a lot, and it has only been 2 weeks, I am HOOKED.
Can't wait to be able to ride all the way around town.

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