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welcome to the forums! if you want to do some good tirals you'll want
something with a splined hub. learning to ride backwards is like
learning to ride forwards all over again. to hop simply grab your seat,
have your cranks horizontal to the ground and bounce up and down. :P .
i'd help with the pelvis question but i dont know what that is :P

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Welcome to the fora!

Your crotch soreness will go away once youve been riding for a while.
Bike shorts will help,they will stop the seat from rubbing your legs.

As for a trials uni i ride a 19" bedford witha KH hub. Its cost me
about $400 to set up. But if you want something cheaper then a 20"
torker DX will be great. Its about $250 and has a splined hub so it
wont bend as easily as the one youve got now.

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is the Nimbus 20 inch Trials Unicycle good, its only $180 of
unicycle.com, also how long will it take, it hurts so bad, that i cant
even ride it well...Also how would you reccomend starting up like with
out using a car? Thanks!

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Freemounting just takes practice. It will come soon, dont you worry. As
for the pain, it shouldnt take long for it to go away just keep riding,
you will get used to it.

The Nimbus Trials has pretty much thesame hub as the torker LX you are
currently on. I say if you want a good trials uni then go for the
Torker DX 20"

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Pantelis said:

is the Nimbus 20 inch Trials Unicycle good, its only $180 of
unicycle.com, also how long will it take, it hurts so bad, that i cant
even ride it well...Also how would you reccomend starting up like with
out using a car? Thanks!

lol it sounds like you are sitting on yourself... LX seats usually
aren't that bad to someone who has never ridden a unicycle before
put your"jewels" in front of you, there is an illustration on this site
somewhere... if i feel like finding it in a little while i will

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Here is the link. Complete with drawings!:eek: 😄

http://munimanpete.unicyclist.com/basictips.htm#nutbreaker

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Ok thanks..but what are the differences between the hubs, if it is
durability i dont think i could break it..

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A cotterless hub (square-tapered) is just a square design, its not bad,
but once you start doing things over a few feet, which will occur soon,
they can easily bend and break, especially if your not having a good
rollout when you land.

I dont know if you can see it that well in this picture, but this is
what they look like. Hub, and Crank.
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The splines hub, has grooves cut out from the axle, so it isnt a square
anymore, but it makes it so much stronger, which means even with a bad
technique, its gonna take a lot to bend or break your hub\cranks.

The splined setup is more expensive, but so extremely worth it in the
long run.

Splined Hub and cranks.
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welcome to the forums.

here is some tips on riding backwards:
http://munimanpete.unicyclist.com/freetips.htm#backwards

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Thanks i like the splined hubs, so does the Torker TX, or whatever it
was the one you said was better have a splined hub? Thanks

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Ok ill go look at that in a little to see. How i ride it! Also do you
have any tips on how you mount, like the way im trying is i get my foot
and put it on the rear pedal and then so i go backwards then forwards,
is that a good newbie way? Thanks!

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(One of the many suggestions you'll get...)

I learned to freemount using a 12 inch piece of 2x4. I would lay it
down on the ground and bring the back of my wheel up against it. The
trick was learning how to get up onto the uni without having the wheel
roll backwards over the block. Too much weight (which I have a lot of)
and the wheel rolls over. Just the right amount of pressure and you're
up and moving. After you get the hang of mounting using the block, try
it without it. If you still have problems mounting without the block
you can swap the 2x4 for a thinner plank of wood and that will get you
putting even less pressure onto the pedal as you mount. You'll wean
yourself off the block pretty quick. I found that this technique
helped me learn how much weight on the pedal was too much and how much
was just right.

Hope it works for you. 😄 Good Luck

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Pantelis said:

Thanks i like the splined hubs, so does the Torker TX, or whatever it
was the one you said was better have a splined hub? Thanks

Torker TX is a giraffe unicycle, with square-tapered hubs, the LX is
probably what you ment to say, and it too has the square-tapered hub.
The only Torker unicycle that is splined, is the DX.

For Mounting, check out these videos.

'Vid 1' (http://tinyurl.com/rq8ay)

'Vid 2' (http://tinyurl.com/phuvn)

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Pantelis said:

Also do you
have any tips on how you mount, like the way im trying is i get my foot
and put it on the rear pedal and then so i go backwards then forwards,
is that a good newbie way?

That is called a rollback mount and it is one variation of the basic
mount, good for beginners and pros alike.

Tips on riding, freemounting, idling, turning and that sort of basic
stuff is in the freely downloadable pd file "Learning to Unicycle",
see here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/uni_beginners.htm

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Thanks for the link im going to check it out, ive rode the Rollback
Mount 2 times now. But i will get better when i get my Torker LX 20
inch today!!!

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I never realy did the rollback, I kind of started out with a static. I
think it's easeir, but that's probably because Iv'e only tried the
rollback a couple of times.😄

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Which is the static?

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When the wheel doesn't move at all; the pedals stay horizontal. basicly
the same as a rollback, only you don't roll back.

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ill try that in a little! Thanks!

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