After learning to ride.

well, a 26" tire probably meant to be higher pressure because it's a
skinnier tire, but I would suggest you keep it lower than usual. this
gives more surface area (tire squishes more) and makes it easier to
balance.

for tips, you can do a search on the forums. there's tons of
information here.

as to what tricks you can learn to do later, check 'this thread'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47406) out.

welcome to the forums, and feel free to talk and ask questions.

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Quoted message said:

well, a 26" tire probably meant to be higher pressure because it's a
skinnier tire, but I would suggest you keep it lower than usual.
this gives more surface area (tire squishes more) and makes it
easier to balance.

I found it easier to balance my 26" on a high pressure tire. It has
less surface friction, hence is easier to turn.

I started practicing in a playground, where I could old on to a couple
of horizontal bars that had rubber tiles below them. With that, I
could easily practice my first few strokes. When I was able to do a
couple of meters, I moved from the rubber tiles to regular tiles.
Regular concrete tiles have less friction than the rubber ones, making
it easier to make small corrections.

Sybren
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i think youll find theres a fair bit you can do on one wheel 😉

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Learning to ride isnt that hard, jsut tideous and takes dedication.

Keep your weight on the seat, and hold onto a wall, push off and pedal
and keep trying. It will take about a week to learn and be a pretty
good ridder, as in you can go from a to b without falling, or only a
few UPDS.

Trick wise, theres tons, and I mean TONS!

Freestyle has tons of tricks from riding one-footed to doing backward
stand-up one footed extended gliding. There tons of combos and
virations.

With street, theres also tons of tricks, from grinds, crankspins,
unispins, varials, leg wraps, big spins, hickflips, sex change.

search for the video 'nacht nada' and there lots of other stuff on
'www.unicycletips.com' (http://www.unicycletips.com).

Do some searching and youll find people riding on tiny rails or bridges
from a few feet into the air, up to having a 500 foot drop to watch out
for. Riding awesome North shore trails, doing complicated trials line
and jumping higher than youd think they could, to gapping 9 set and
doing 360s into a grind and a backflip out of it.

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Learning to ride isnt that hard, jsut tideous and takes dedication.

I found it not to be tedious at all! I had great fun trying to stay on
the bike 🙂

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Frank Zappa