It's Impossible!

nobody can really ride a unicycle, some are just better at delaying
falling off.

but seriously, weight on the seat and look forward. be sure that the
tire is at the correct psi and that your seat is not too high or too
low. really its all just practice. perservere through the part of your
learning where it seems like your going nowhere. maybe take a couple
days break and then try again fresh. hope this helps.

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iridemymuni said:

i think everybody agrees when i say you lucky son of a [censored]

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Just keep trying!! You're very close to a breakthrough.

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Keep at it and you will succeed. 3 to 15 hours seems to be the time
committed before you ride unassisted. Once you can go 50 yards
unassisted then you will learn at an exponential rate. Welcome to our
disease.🙂 🙂

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Just to add to what the others have said, practice for a long time at
once. Just do a good couple of hours trying in one go instead of a
litle bit each day and you'll probably get it - or get a lot closer to
getting it. I learnt by putting two garden chairs facing back to back
with me between them, one hand on each and just getting used to
balancing and doing half pedals backward and forward for a while, and I
found that to be a great way to learn. Just keep trying and you'll get
there soon. 🙂

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cliffhirsch said:

When I actually make it a dozen turns or so, careening around like a
drunkard, my speed accelerates to keep the unicycle under me, until I
fly off and enter orbit.

A *_dozen__*turns?!? You're doing great! The suggestion to take a day
or two off is a good one. Let your body digest what it has learned.
You'll do 50 meters before you know it, and then you'll be able to ride
as far as you want. Free-mounting is next.😄

unichomp said:

3 to 15 hours seems to be the time committed before you ride unassisted.
Once you can go 50 yards unassisted then you will learn at an
exponential rate.

It took me just over 20 hours of practicing at age 41 to ride 50 meters.

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steveyo

...like having your own personal rollercoaster...
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Thanks to all the posting so far. Unfortunately, I seem to have the bug.
There's just something about it...

Buying a unicycle seemed totally random, but then I remembered that I
have always been eyeing this lonely unicycle hanging off the ceiling of
a local gaming store. Complexity and simplicity in one swoop...

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hope you feel better

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gordito8me

torker dx here in 1-2 days!!!

once I get my dx seat it's going to be for sale pm me if you're
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Taking a few days off from learning makes a massive difference; after
resuming, suddenly those twelve rotations will be blown away by a much
greater distance.

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From my own experience i've realized that there's no such thing as a
perfect person. Some pick it up faster than others. Perserverance and
patience are the key to unicycling in my opinion. I would try not to
worry about what others say. Lets see them unicycle as good as you are
😄 :p 😄 and yes it is a natural part of the process.

Also welcome to unicyclist.com my friend, feel free to ask any
questions you may have to me or anyone else.

Take care
Hazmat

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I started at 45 and was able to figure this thing out. (I also live
about 30 miles from you.) So it is possible to learn to ride when you
are in you 40's. A warning to you. Make room in your house for several
more unicycles. You'll be purchasing that Muni in the near future and
then it'll be a 29"er or a Coker. Perhaps both. Check you PMs.

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zfreak220 said:

nobody can really ride a unicycle, some are just better at delaying
falling off.

I can drive a unicycle 😉

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thejdw

torkerdx said:

another bit of advice:
shut up and ride🙂

some people get the concept, some don't

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I just thought i let you, there's no such thing as impossible. The only
thing that defines impossible is those who don't
believe/persevere/conquer in their dreams and i believe that my friend
cliffhirsch can achieve/believe/persevere/conquer the unique ability of
unicycling. So don't give up and keep perservering and slowly slowly
you'll get better and better.

Take care cliffhirsch & never give up 😄 :p 😄 :p 😄 :p 😄
Hazmat

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I learnt at the age of 35. I could not practice for more than half an
hour at a go. It just gets too frustrating and your concentration and
self esteem seem to colapse. I started by mounting the unicycle while
holding onto a post. For about 3 days I could only do about half a
revolution before flying off. after a week I was doing 1 or two
revolutions. After almost 2 weeks I was getting up to 4 or five
revolutions and by the end of two weeks I was clearing the whole lenght
of the basketball court where I was practicing. It took another couple
of weeks to get good at turning and going over anything higher than a
centimeter. At the end of a month I was beggining to ride on dirt
roads. It took me more than a month to freemount for the first time and
almost three months before I got 100% freemount success rate. It took
me half a year to start riding single tracks. Now 8 months later I am
working on jumping up things (So hard and seems as futile as riding did
in the begginning) and Riding Seat in Front.

Just a little chonology of a 35 year old learning to ride. Keep in mind
that I never practiced for more than 30 minutes a day until I started
riding the dirt roads. I then started taking hour to hour and a half
long rides. I now do 3 hour rides on hard terrain and it is a blast!

The Ski slopes will come with time. Good luck!

Unicorn

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You've done most of the hard work.
You're so close you can touch it!

Don't give up!

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"Now listen up, you primitive screwheads...See this?...This is my -BOOM-
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I learned at 53 and it took me _months__to learn to ride (I woke up
every morning 1/2 hour earlier just to practice) So you are probably
going to learn faster😄
just tell us when it's ok and we'll share a drink (virtually - I mean
the sharing not the drink!)

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cliffhirsch said:

Thanks to all the posting so far. Unfortunately, I seem to have the bug.
There's just something about it...

Buying a unicycle seemed totally random, but then I remembered that I
have always been eyeing this lonely unicycle hanging off the ceiling of
a local gaming store. Complexity and simplicity in one swoop...

I learned at age 50. I used a tennis court to learn. The court is
level, smooth and has a fence around it to hang onto. It took me about
10 hours over 2 weeks. I could only practice about 15 to 20 minutes at
a time because my legs would get so tired. When you get used to it, you
will be more relaxed and will rest your weight on the seat. That takes
the weight off your legs and then you can ride longer and further.

Hang in there. Keep trying.

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A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to
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Riding a unicycle is a series of active mistakes. In a sense, you want
to fail because then you respond to the error you made. Once you figure
out all the mistakes you make you go back and clean them up, patch them
and then you know it, you can idle on a unicycle. I've always found
that taking a day of recognition to let it all sink in to the brain
helps alot.

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Hang in there. Listen to all the advice given here so far. Practice
and perservere. Come to the forum as often as you need to for moral
support and advice. I may hold the record for being a
balance-challenged, borderline retarded (oops. I don't think that's
politically correct anymore), long-time-to-learn, unicyclist (conclude
self-deprecation). It took me about 80 hours over 8 months to ride 50
meters at age 49. The main thing is, don't give up. I now ride
several miles each and every day and just love it. When you finally
have the "major breakthrough" you'll be amazed. It will happen.

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