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  1. Here's a guy who makes a 10 minute wheelie ride on his mountain bike.

    I figure it is harder to keep fore/aft balance like this than on a
    unicycle.

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  2. Eh...boring. There's a guy at my school on the bike team who rides
    wheelies on his mountain bike all around campus.

    I wish I could ride a wheelie, though.

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  3. thats really cool...but it gets boring after a while

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  4. Quoted message said:

    I figure it is harder to keep fore/aft balance like this than on a
    unicycle.

    Find the balance point then use the rear brake to stop yourself going
    over the back...easy as peasy🙂

    I get bored after about half a mile plus my old hands start to hurt
    these days holding on and braking at the same time 🙄

    Downhill coasting wheelies are the best, pull up the front wheel, lean
    back and enjoy the ride😄 😄

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  5. I can wheelie for about 50 feet and manual a bit, I should practice more
    so that I can do it forever like this guy.

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  6. Manueling on bikes is really hard, I can wheelie for about 25 pedals on
    my mountain bike but I can't manuel more than 10 ft.

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  7. I think he lost a wheel. 😄

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  8. austingillespie said:

    Manueling on bikes is really hard, I can wheelie for about 25 pedals on
    my mountain bike but I can't manuel more than 10 ft.

    Well providing you're using brake control (and can wheelie quite wel),
    find a not very steep hill, wheelie along at the top, and well when you
    have some speed you should start to roll without pedalling, and control
    with back brake - can anyone else explain better?

    Wheelies get a bit boring... when you can do one hand and no hand
    wheelies 😎 :p , I think it's the fast manuals that make it fun,
    like someone said.

    Oh one more thing, providing you're going for a good wheelie session,
    to take pressure off your hands when you're up, angle the seat ideally
    as far forward (down) as possible. This means that rather than having
    to hold the bike up with your arms, your body weight does it for you 😉

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  9. manualing is quite hard but im good at it if i have a jump to get the
    front whell up and can spot the place to set the manual down (as in bmx
    racing)... but besides that it is very hard

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  10. Look, i'm so bored I even drew a diagram:
    (this is opposed to your weight sliding backwards off your seat)

    Ps, to me manualing and 'coasting' are the same thing - but i've been
    talking about coasting specificly

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  11. goldenchicken III said:

    Here's a guy who makes a 10 minute wheelie ride on his mountain bike. I
    figure it is harder to keep fore/aft balance like this than on a
    unicycle.

    Impressive, although not nearly as impressive as the set-up or 40 mile
    ride done by former RSU colleage '\"Unibiker\"'
    (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/member.php?u=473). Most posters on
    this thread probably joined the forum after Unibiker had departed. Had
    to look around a bit as his old gallery, but 'here's the link'
    (http://tinyurl.com/2lcgmd) to some pictures. Rather than have a
    friend handy to catch the front wheel coming off, he just pulled it
    permanently, then chopped the fork off as well and re-aligned the seat
    to be optimized for the "wheelie" position. In a very early version he
    had a small 16" wheel up front for emergencies, but then got good
    enough to just commit to no second wheel.

    'Here' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27862) is one
    of several threads started by Unibiker to chronicle the increasing
    distances he was achieving on his pioneering creation.

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  12. why is this in RSU?

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  13. I believe he has the seat position I was trying to describe; allowing
    him to sit upright.

    I offen wonder what happens to these former forum users, whether they
    lose interest in unicycling or.... well why else do they stop
    posting?😕

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  14. Det-riot said:

    why is this in RSU?

    Uni = 1 ... what else can I say? IMO it can be classed as unicycling
    due to the meaning of the word...

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  15. Heres a videos of me wheelying, maybe it'l help you guys:

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  16. jamessd said:

    Heres a videos of me wheelying, maybe it'l help you guys:

    Some good riding there. Now build yourself a Unibike!

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  17. Det-riot said:

    why is this in RSU?

    It is interesting that it is possible to ride on a wheel with a
    freewheel hub when the wheel also has got a brake. I ask myself: If you
    would put a brake on one of the freewheel unicycles people have built –
    would that make them easier to ride?

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  18. goldenchicken III said:

    It is interesting that it is possible to ride on a wheel with a
    freewheel hub when the wheel also has got a brake. I ask myself: If you
    would put a brake on one of the freewheel unicycles people have built –
    would that make them easier to ride?

    Yes, IMO its similar to brake control on a bike. Or of course, as
    someone suggested in another thread you could make a hub with a clutch!

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  19. goldenchicken III said:

    It is interesting that it is possible to ride on a wheel with a
    freewheel hub when the wheel also has got a brake. I ask myself: If you
    would put a brake on one of the freewheel unicycles people have built –
    would that make them easier to ride?

    I'm not sure why, but between my recollection of riding very long
    wheelies on my bike (pretty easy and smooth like jamessd's) and seeing
    videos of both expert uni coasting and coasting with a free-hub uni
    (jerky, difficult, and short-lived), it's generally just easier to do
    that stuff on a bike. Maybe it's the extended balance envelope and
    lower center of gravity you get by having your body behind the center
    point (back wheel) and the front wheel in front of the center
    point...kind of like a tightrope walker's balance pole, but facing
    forward and back instead of side to side.

    I think having a brake on a freewheel hub uni would be a great way to
    practice flying through the air and landing on your face.

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  20. Doing the whole thing on some decent trails would have been impressive.

    tomblackwood said:

    Impressive, although not nearly as impressive as the set-up or 40 mile
    ride done by former RSU colleage '\"Unibiker\"'
    (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/member.php?u=473). Most posters on
    this thread probably joined the forum after Unibiker had departed.

    Would probably be easier on a fixed gear b*ke.

    Exactly what do you mean by departed? The college, this site,
    unicycling, Earth?

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