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For mounting a giraffe I prefer to do a climbing mount. I'm not sure if
that is what it is called, but that is the motion of it.

Anyways, I mount with my right foot, so I position the right pedal
straight down, in lined with the frame pretty much.

Hold onto the seat with both hands, and put your left foot on the tire,
right between the frame, so if you put any weight on it, the tire will
not roll forwards.

Now with your left foot firmly on the tire, step up and bring your
right foot to the pedal, as soon as it is on the pedal, bring your left
foot to the other pedal and your body over the seat.

All that should happen in the matter of seconds. Then ride away.

If you mount with your left foot, its the same procedure, just switch
what I typed above. Left foot becomes right, you get it.

There is also the rolling mount. Walk, job, whatever pace you want with
your uni in front of you. I like to go at a fast walking speed for
this. Like I said before, I mount with my right foot, so as the right
pedal is coming up towards me, I do a little hop to get my foot on
there, and put my weight straight down on it, this cause my body to
fling up onto the uni, and the unicycle to pedal backwards bringing me
right on top of it, then I either ride backwards, hop and do a 180,
idle for a little, or just ride straight forwards.

Watch a video with giraffe mounting in and practice a lot.

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I'm a little scared to try the rolling mount, since I hurt my "buddies"
last time I tried.

The climbing/static/whatever mount works for me half the time, but I
tend to reach out to grab something.
Old habbit.

When I recover from my "sit-down" incident, I'll give it a go.

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I dont do the rolling one much because a lot of times I slip, or hit the
pedal at the wrong time, and then I fall. lol

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=/
Still can't get it.

Been trying this for almost an hour straight.
Rolling mount isn't working..

Climbing mount is still a little awkward.

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Hawo Flekin, maybe this can help you somewhat. 😄

😄 'Freemounting a giraffe unicycle.'
(http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Unicyclopedia/Giraffe) 😄

Good luck with it all
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ivan said:

Its a wild ride, grabs me by the shoe-lace, and doesn't let go till I do
a face-plant.

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The best tutorial of them all on how to free mount a giraffe uni.

It's also in my sig. Happy mounting🙂

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Hazmat said:

Hawo Flekin, maybe this can help you somewhat. 😄

😄 'Freemounting a giraffe unicycle.'
(http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Unicyclopedia/Giraffe) 😄

Good luck with it all
Hazmat

Nice link, thanks.

I have a wooden gate to pull myself up/keep balance as I get on, but
freemounting is still difficult.

The jumping climb seems easiest to me, but still hard as hell.

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Were you the KLOWN-LIFE lad from somewhere in Scotland?

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GILD said:

Were you the KLOWN-LIFE lad from somewhere in Scotland?

http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/member.php?u=9117

Close, but no cigar. :'

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A bunch more vid mounting tutorials:
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youtube.comresultsOpen ↗
(http://tinyurl.com/36hfx8)

I'd get real good at riding w/ 1 ft. frwds & bkwds, idling, and a bunch
of different mounts on the 20, then w/ shorter cranks, then move onto
the giraffe.

[quote="Flekin"][url]I know it varies for each person, it took my friend a whole month
to free mount a 20" uni, whereas it took me about 4 days.
But, how long should this take to get the hang of?[/quote]


Practice mounting w/ the other foot, also dismount w/ a diff foot.
You said the answer to that yourself🙂


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skilewis74 said:

A bunch more vid mounting tutorials:
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youtube.comresultsOpen ↗
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I've seen all of these.
First thing I did was look this all up on youtube, even before I went
out and got a giraffe.

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