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maybe not a fluke your lokking for but...
i was rding around with a ball in my hands and it ended up a big gum
tree
10 min later i was still riding around and it fell (the wind) and
landed on my helmet...
i was confused for a few seconds,

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I've had a couple of accidental coasts and grinds while muniing - things
that I can't do on purpose, so they could be called flukes. The
accidental coasts usually end up in a crash though.

Rob

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i learned how to grind because of a fluke, i was jumping on top of a
rail to ride down it, i didnt quite make it and landed on my crank, I
was able to keep my balance. after that i learned to grind on purpose.

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oo....I realised you can hop without hands when some dudes walked up to
me and asked me to 'bunny hop', i obliged, and while i was talking and
hoppin' i got all tangled up in me headphones and accidentally let go
of the handel and WALA!!! :p

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Once I was juggling clubs on a 12' unicycle. This is a generally bad
idea if you're not comfortable on a 12' unicycle. I dropped one of the
clubs, and as it fell I thought, "No problem, unless it manages to land
right in front of the wheel, perpindicular to it." Murphy's law. Ding!
Club about to be wedged under my wheel and nowhere to go. Too late to
change direction, as you have to plan ahead for such things. This
happend really fast. My choices were:
a) Dismount on purpose to avoid UPD-ing. Possible ankle damage
b) Try to ride over the club, with possible results from a above
c) I didn't think of this at the time, but someone here would probably
suggest hopping over it. Did I mention it was a 12' unicycle built by
Tom Miller? That's a lot of weight. Probably easy to hop up & down, but
*very* hard to hop and pull it forward!

So I grabbed the seat and powered over the club. The wheel didn't slip,
and I made it over! Woohoo! I nearly pooped my pants. No more clubs on
the 12', unless I have a spotter handy to prevent same problem...

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i was doin a grind on a ledge at my local skatepark and the crank slid
off so it was just the pedal and i pushed too hard to pull my crank
back on and did a crank filp and landed still slideing but the dumbass
kid who was suposed to be filming didnt hit the record button so none
of my uni freinds believe me

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Gutted Man!!!!!😉

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johnfoss said:

Once I was juggling clubs on a 12' unicycle. This is a generally bad
idea if you're not comfortable on a 12' unicycle. I dropped one of the
clubs, and as it fell I thought, "No problem, unless it manages to land
right in front of the wheel, perpindicular to it." Murphy's law. Ding!
Club about to be wedged under my wheel and nowhere to go. Too late to
change direction, as you have to plan ahead for such things. This
happend really fast. My choices were:
a) Dismount on purpose to avoid UPD-ing. Possible ankle damage
b) Try to ride over the club, with possible results from a above
c) I didn't think of this at the time, but someone here would probably
suggest hopping over it. Did I mention it was a 12' unicycle built by
Tom Miller? That's a lot of weight. Probably easy to hop up & down, but
*very* hard to hop and pull it forward!

So I grabbed the seat and powered over the club. The wheel didn't slip,
and I made it over! Woohoo! I nearly pooped my pants. No more clubs on
the 12', unless I have a spotter handy to prevent same problem...

whoah... i read that whole thing until the end as a 12 INCH uni not a
12 foot, thats crazy..

Chase

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My best fluke was the time I did backward seat drag with the seat in
front for about ten cycles and then picked up the seat and rode out. I
was able to do backward seat drag a little at the time, but I wasn't
anywhere near being able to pick up the seat, or regularly do ten
cycles of the wheel, for that matter. But I wasn't paying very close
attention, and before I realized it, I had picked up the seat.

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I once fell off while trying my patented 360 mount and nearly hit my
head on my helmet which was lying on the ground. More irony than
anything else really.

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Unitik908 said:

whoah... i read that whole thing until the end as a 12 INCH uni not a 12
foot, thats crazy..

Chase

same here
just had another one
I was riding at a skate park and did a grind and a pedaled fdoward and
somehow was grinding on just the bit of the crank which was lower than
my hub and my pedals were in the 6:clock and 9:clock position tots o
fun

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Welcome to Hotel Unifornia. You can check out, but you can never leave.

Help yourself to anything in the fridge.

And please don't feed the clowns.

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I like landing drops one footed (on accident, of course) and surviving
it. this has happened on stairsets, 180 drops, all kinds of stuff.

You feel really cool when you do it.

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Fuego said:

I like landing drops one footed (on accident, of course) and surviving
it. this has happened on stairsets, 180 drops, all kinds of stuff.

You feel really cool when you do it.

haha yeah... like when you try to crank stall/hop up it and then get a
pedal stall.. thats alwasy fun

Chase

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Unitik908 said:

whoah... i read that whole thing until the end as a 12 INCH uni not a 12
foot, thats crazy..

Chase

Haha, I did too until I read your post, and I was trying to figure out
how a fall from 12 inches could be so bad. I was also convinced that a
12 incher must be very hard to ride.

David

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I tried to hop on something small a while ago and did a crankflip. I can
only do half-flips on purpose.

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i fluked coasting while i was falling off my uni once but i kept it
going for a couple of metres put my feet on the cranks did one
revolution and fell off

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when trying to dimount i pulled both my feet of and instead of going
back i went forward then back again and coasted for like 3 metres

also when riding backwards my left foot came off acidentally and i rode
one footed backwards for about 5 metres and managed to keep going🙂

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once, i was really tired, i was riding through grass, then i just like
took both my feet off the pedals(i dont know why, i was really tired)
then i coasted for like two feet, then ended up in a pile on my uni.
the worst part is that i was so tired i didn't realize it was coasting
till i look back at it and realize it was coasting

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Here's Nick Brazzi practicing off-road coasting:

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