How did you get started?

http://tinyurl.com/4k59s

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Having retired I felt I needed to do something challanging( for me).
It was October 2000.

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Boys Life article entitled, "YOU can ride a Unicycle". You know, it was
right. That was around '76. I have more fun with it now.

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Well, one day, I read on the internet that some kid had solved a Rubiks
Cube while idling on a unicycle. I know how to solve a Rubiks Cube, so I
thought that was pretty awesome, so I got a unicycle and learned.

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I had my daughter at soccer practice about a month ago and was bored.
Everyone was walking around the track for exercise and that looked
equally boring.

For some reason I thought about an unicycle. I came home and found the
book "A crash course- Ride the unicycle" on the internet. I bought it
and a 24" torker the same night. The book came first so I read it. I was
so happy when the unicyle came that I started in the grass in the
rain.

My first day was 9/16/2004 (3.5 weeks ago). I can now ride wherever I
want to and even rode off a 6 inch curb several times today. I practice
30-60 mins per day. I have to strongly recomend this book to those
starting from scratch. Forget holding on to anything.

I am 45 years old and my goal is the get a 28" and do the 17 mile
Creeper trial by this spring.

uncle ric

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'was in a bike shop when it got a bunch of Schwinn unicycles delivered
for the first time. After the first one came out of the box for display,
it was love at first sight. Got one and slept w/ it.

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tennisgh22 said:

*http://tinyurl.com/4k59s

-grant *

And don't forget about this thread: 'What inspired you to learn'
(http://tinyurl.com/463nu)

Welcome Back Kotter 😄

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when i used to rock climb in my hometown, we had one lying around that
we used to try and ride, then my friend had a giraffe and a 20" that i
borrowed and learnt on. Then i saw the Uni Team boys at an offroad race,
the day-night thriller, and got hooked...

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Well a MOPED or whatever you call it...yeah good one security

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Gave up smoking and needed something to do with the time and the money I
saved.

FatDave

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FatDave said:

*Gave up smoking and needed something to do with the time and the
money I saved.

FatDave *

Very good move. Congrats on the change.

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Talent day at work over the summer, one of my co workers brought in his
uni.

*me staring, gaping mouthed*

cut to thursday last week... falling all over myself trying to sit on my
very own torker.

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zambonijones said:

*Talent day at work over the summer, one of my co workers brought in
his uni.

*me staring, gaping mouthed*

cut to thursday last week... falling all over myself trying to sit on
my very own torker. *

So you got the Torker...how do you like it?

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yeah, I like it fine =) One of my friends drove by and saw me
practicing today. I believe what she said was something along the lines
of, "Wow, that doesn't look nearly as stupid as I thought it would."

I guess that's good.

I made 27' across my driveway today, but only three times in 45 minutes.
I feel like I'm learning so much more slowly than everyone else (I'm
working on my 7th total hour of practice and I'm still not fluid or
performing regularly at all. Sometimes I can barely go 2 rotations and
some times I'll get past the 20' line several times in a row. I have to
think that it might be because I have even less of the side-to-side
balance than everyone else did to start off with, seeing as I can barely
ride a bike.)

Anyway, the Torker is holding up fine. The only visible damage I've
seen is the little line of paint that got scraped off after I tried to
change the seat post height. Other than that, the only problems I've
had are with the seat twisting for the first few days. I haven't really
dropped it lately, though, so that hasn't been a problem.

I'm naming it Regis Philbin.

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My grandma bought an old piece o shet one at a garage sale and whenever
we visited her, my brother and I would see who could ride it the
farthest. Well, he always beat me. So then in middle school the Twin
City Unicycle Club was teaching classes there so I signed up, tried
riding a Myata and to my suprise I could ride across the gym with a good
uni on my first try! After seeing all the awesome riders of TCUC, I
joined and have been riding/competing ever since. And that was in 1991!
BTW- I can kick my bro's ass unicycling now!

I've been to so many different countries and met so many nice people
because of unicycling, it's sweet. I'm so glad I got hooked! I also got
into it while my parents were going thru a divorce and I think
unicycling helped me cope with it better, because I had something to
focus my thoughts and time into, instead of dwelling on the divorce. It
took my mind off of it.

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Smile! 🙂 It makes people wonder what you're up to!

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Back in '98, my dad and I were dropping trash off at the local recycling
center, must have been Canadian Thanksgiving weekend (wow, almost
exactedly 6 years ago...) 'cause I was home from College that weekend,
and in with the junk bikes was this old POS 20" uni. Blue frame. [censored]
tire. My dad half-jokingly said "Hey, there's a unicycle, why don't you
get it and learn to ride it?" I still don't know why, but I ran out
into the drizzling rain, picked it up and dashed back to the car with
it.
The seat was all shredded up (and a couple earwigs fell out), but some
duck-tape fixed that. The assumption that the bolt for the seat height
would be on the back of the frame determined which way was front. A $6
tire from Wal-Mart turned it into my first "muni". I learnt to ride
first by holding onto a step-ladder and pushing off. Didn't get far, a
f ew feet but I don't think I ever left the garage. Back at the dorms,
I kept myself upright by riding through the hallway of the aprtment, and
though I did this for weeks never did better than crossing the hallway
to the next apartment (and pissing off the downstairs neighbors with
resounding thwacks of my falling seat.) Outside, I would hold onto the
bike rack outside the building and push off. Eventually, I made it 5
feet. Then 10. 50, and so one, till I reached the street (where the
sidewalk went up 2 inches, at which point I fell.)
Winter set in, and I let it be. Everyonce and a while, I'd dig it out,
but aside from learning to freemount, never really rode it. It was too
small. The spring of 2002 I dug it out again. I ordered a new seat and
seat post from unicycle.com. The seatpost was too thick for the frame,
so I hammered it in. Still wasn't high enough, but it was better.
Learned to free mount again, rode down my parents gravel driveway, and
occasionaly on the lawn (not intentionally.) My first muni experiences!
That summer I planned on buying a "real" uni, but I never got the money
after computer upgrades. Summer 2003 I was going to get one, but ended
up getting a paintball gun instead. Fate however, had different
plans.
I remarked to a friend one day that I still wanted to get a new unicyle.
It so happened that this friend, Jason, was a dispatcher for a local
police department, and they had a storage area full of abandoned bikes.
And one sweet looking 24" CyclePro. It was in beautiful condition, and
Jason got it for me for free. Sweet. I learnt to freemount it, I
learnt to go up and down hills, ride off curbs, ride on snow, hop, mtn
bike trails. It was a beautiful uni... not anymore. Less than a year
after getting it, it had been to the bike shop 5 times for crank repairs
(the previous owner who'd lost/abandoned it had apparently run it with
loose cranks.) It had been muddied, the axle had been bent, as well as
the cranks. It had taken 12" drops. The tire had a bald spot from
mounting it. I ordered a muni, and donated the CyclePro to my friend
Mike, who's uni was in even worse shape than the CyclePro. As an aside,
the original 20" uni had been donated to Mike some months previous and
is currently merrily filling the post of ultimate wheel.
My muni, a 24" Nimbus arrived, and has been merrily abused since. I've
learnt to ride competently over roots, rocks, small children and the
elderly, not to mention seat out hopping, almost seat out riding, 180
unispins (ok, well, I can spin the uni, and I can land on the cranks...
just don't ask me to do both A & B on the same jump), up stairs, down
stairs, almost idle, and almost backwards. I commute to school
everyday on it, and can't get enough 🙂
Tomorrow, I'll ride to school, and get to try out Mike's new girraffe!
The obsession continues!!!

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in 4th grade, i was having a parent-teacher conferrence because i was a
bad boy. he asked me what personnal goal i had for the year, and i
said,"i want to learn how to unicycle." i was just joking around at the
time but he said, "ok, ill let you borrow mine. you can take it home and
take as much time as you need to learn how." so i was like "SCORE!!!" so
he brought it the next day to school, and i brought it to my grandmas
house to practice. by the end of the day, i could ride across her back
yard. the next day i was going to my friends house. they were all riding
scooters so they were faster than me. so that day i learned to freemount
and ride long distances. after about a month, my teacher took the
unicycle back and i didnt ride after that until 7th grade. i asked for
one for my birthday and i got a united 24" uni with lollipop bearings.
what a piece that thing was. but ive been infatuated with the sport ever
since.
and thats my story
fin.

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TheObieOne3226 said:

*

Very good move. Congrats on the change. *

Thanks ObieOne. I've been a non-smoker for 105 days now and been
learning unicycling for 100 of them. No regrets on either decision.

FD

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