wind!

That's still a pretty good distance without a dismount. In
fact, it's an excellent distance.

To reduce the effects of severe wind:

1) Don't wear baggy clothes.
2) Tuck your arms in, hold the handle/seat front.
3) Bend over to reduce your frontal area.
4) Leave a bit of 'reserve' in your speed. You might need
to accelerate suddenly to cope with a gust, or a sudden
drop in the wind.
5) Relax - sometimes you need to swerve with the wind,
rather than fight it.

or

6) Chew your food properly and avoid cabbage, sprouts
or pulses.

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7) Close your umbrella

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Mikefule said:

To reduce the effects of severe wind:

1) Don't wear baggy clothes.
2) Tuck your arms in, hold the handle/seat front.
3) Bend over to reduce your frontal area.
4) Leave a bit of 'reserve' in your speed. You might need
to accelerate suddenly to cope with a gust, or a
sudden drop in the wind.
5) Relax - sometimes you need to swerve with the wind,
rather than fight it.

or

6) Chew your food properly and avoid cabbage, sprouts or
pulses.

Thanks, good points! Maybe the bigger amount of food with
Christmas was making the wind effect worse ;-)

I think also the wind direction is important, as it's easier
for me to turn right than turn left. And tiredness. In the
beginning the wind came from my right side, what was making
me tired mostly because I wasn't riding relaxed anymore with
my arms pointed to wind. Then the wind came from my front
left I couldn't keep it and rode straight into the grass on
the right side of the road.

I thought I had stumbled onto the wrong forum.

*Wind!* is usually a headline on a windsurfing forum.

To reduce the effects of severe wind:

8) Rig a smaller sail

And sometimes a skydiving forum.

9) Pack a smaller parachute

However, if you're an oddball on a unicycling forum

10) Get out the hacksaw

*Happy Holidays, Everybody!*

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I was riding downtown one time in Rexburg, ID (home of snow
and wind, and that's about it), doing fine, when I passed an
alleyway. The wind was blowing so hard down the alley that
it knocked me off the uni, like suddenly being shoved. Weird
experience.

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