Intro - Learning to ride

Congratulations zuni!

It is great to hear that you have conquered z uni! Good luck and happy
wheeling. 😎

(great username!)

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Congratulations Araz!

I know the feeling--I could not believe my first 200 feet, it felt like
the greatest thing in the world! Then again, so did my first 100 feet,
my first 50 feet, first 30 feet, first 10 feet, first foot! Unicycling
is so totally rewarding, even if progress is slow, there is nothing like
the UNIcycle's own UNIque set of accomplishments...

For example, I can now ride around pretty well, I can make wide turns
and I only stop when I decide to--however, I could never freemount, I
was always using streetlamps, fences, etc to launch from.

Until today! Finally, I freemounted! Only once, but wow, was it an
excellent feeling! I can't wait to do it again!

Like yourself, I too am now certainly closer to being a rider than I was
this morning. A great feeling!

Cheers, and lots of luck with your continuing progress!

Steve

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welcome!

To be honest, I wish I could unlearn all my years of unicycling just so
I could repeat that feeling of jumping from 30 feet to 300. Its simply
fantastic. Congrats on the progress, I'm sure your boyfriend will be sad
that you don't need to lean on him anymore 🙂

Keep us posted on how you're doing, the forum loves getting beginners to
join.

-grant

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Congratulations!! What a great feeling that is,I remember it well. I've
been riding alot of years,but until recently have just never tried to
further my skills,mainly because I don't know anyone else who rides so I
have been on my own since day one. I just started trying to ride
backwards and idle this weekend. So hopefully I'll get to experience
that feeling of accomplishment again. I just ordered a uni for my son
who will turn 10 on Wed. He's been wanting to try for a while,so he'll
get his chance soon. I can't wait to see his face when he gets the uni
and then when he gets those first few unassisted pedals in.
Mike

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Grant,
That is a great signature!😄 😄

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Mike Rojas said:

*Grant,
That is a great signature!😄 😄 *

🙂 thanks, you're the first one to compliment me on it. its amazing how
creative you can be at 3:45 in the morning when you decide you need a
new signature...

-grant

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awesome! Hey, if yer tryin' to turn, i would suggest turning yer upper
body, and letting yer lower body follow, or or just doing lots of little
twists (this method would work better on gravel, tho)

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Zuni-

How did it feel to ride 100 meters today unassisted? How's your
freemounting coming along? I heard your boyfriend was showing off and
tried to jump over your unicycle but landed on the rim and tacoed the
wheel for you. Does riding a wonky wheel interfere with the learning
process? I would make the boyfriend buy you a brand new unicycle if he
turned yours into a POS.

Weight on the seat, breathe, look forward, round pedal strokes, don't
chicken out, fall off. The next goal you reach will be the one at 1/4
mile where you have to get off because your legs give out. You're a
rider. I'm surprised Klaas Bil isn't clamoring for your statistics.

Say hi to Ned for me if you see him this week.

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zuni said:

*Today, for the first time, I rode my 20" Torker 200 feet unassisted.*

that's one more of us and one less of them

:cool:tennisgh22 said:

*To be honest, I wish I could unlearn all my years of unicycling just
so I could repeat that feeling of jumping from 30 feet to 300. Its
simply fantastic. *

very true
it's a hypothetical question but how many riders would?
(semi-seriously)

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Thank you all for your replies and advice.

The turning thing... yeah, I need some work there.

On my second extended practice session, I rode 300 feet plus many
shorter rides & practiced free-mounting (SO close.). Then my wheel got
trashed (someone tried to jump over my uni on their uni, and landed on
my wheel instead) and now it's a P.O.S. I will be getting at least one
new uni out of it, though, so maybe that's OK.

Only problem with this uni thing is that it gives me one more thing to
obsess/daydream about when I should be working.

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So the obsession thing seems to be a common motif running through many
of the threads on this forum.

I like to class myself as a serial compulsiven obsessive. So I focus
without distraction on one thing for a long time, then for some weird
reason I choose something else - family history, Triumph Heralds,
unicycles...

I rode down my street tonight (after dark) and suddenly felt that I
needed a larger wheel. Is this the start of buying many more unis?

Zuni you're doing great. Keep up the good work!

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s7ev0 said:

*So the obsession thing seems to be a common motif running through
many of the threads on this forum.*

I prefer the term "Healthy Interest".

s7ev0 said:

*I rode down my street tonight (after dark) and suddenly felt that I
needed a larger wheel. Is this the start of buying many more unis?*

Probably. 😉 Are you a smoker? I have never smoked, and justify MANY
"me" purchases by spending what I've saved by not smoking a pack a day
since I was 13.

Anyway - congratulations zuni! Keep on going, it can only get better
from here, but watch out for those ballistic UPDs.

Jayne

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harper said:

I'm surprised Klaas Bil isn't clamoring for your statistics.

So many reasons:

Most of zuni's data are already given in this thread. Not her age but
I plan to check her profile for that. I've got this idea that she is
16, maybe from another thread - may be wrong but I'll check anyway
when the time comes.

The gateway to the newsgroup was down for almost a week so I didn't
catch this until now.

I don't do requests for data right now. I'm sitting on a lot of
"additional" data and still have to do the second round of processing.

Did I ever "clamour" for statistics in the first place? Let alone
"clamor" :-)

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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harper said:

I'm surprised Klaas Bil isn't clamoring for your statistics.

So many reasons:

Most of zuni's data are already given in this thread. Not her age but
I plan to check her profile for that. I've got this idea that she is
16, maybe from another thread - may be wrong but I'll check anyway
when the time comes.

The gateway to the newsgroup was down for almost a week so I didn't
catch this until now.

I don't do requests for data right now. I'm sitting on a lot of
"additional" data and still have to do the second round of processing.

Did I ever "clamour" for statistics in the first place? Let alone
"clamor" :-)

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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zuni said:

*
OK, I've got a long ways to go (being able to turn - intentionally-
would be a plus), but I'm certainly closer to being a rider than I was
this morning. Glad to join this forum, lots of inspiration here.

Cheers,
Araz *

I have seen this girl ride and she's incredible. She's 25-30 hours into
riding and has

1.) Ridden 4 different unicycles
2.) Freemounted 3 different unicycles
3.) Gone on a 5 mile ride (with lots of falls and rests)
4.) Ridden a MUni with a 24" Fireball tire off road AND freemounted it
uphill AND downhill
5.) Gone through an entire 3 hour riding session with only one assisted
mount.
6.) Turned both directions at will
7.) Ridden precariously close to the Stanley Park seawall.

Consider all of that AND she's a flashy dresser. I think the accelerated
learning progress is due to the fact that she has had engineering
discussions with Steve Howard and has ridden with Kris Holm and given
him some UW tips and gotten some riding tips from him. Or perhaps it's
determination.

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zuni said:

*Here's my history - I had become quite accomplished at riding around
a parking lot holding my boyfriend's hand. But my learning curve
plateaued there; I couldn't progress. He finally suggested I try
launching myself off of a stationary object. So today I took his
advice, and made huge progress. I went WAY further today, and was WAY
more consistent in my efforts.*

Congratulations Araz...what a great story! It's true that sometimes you
do better on your own. I see some parallels here... There's this guy in
our local riding club that's always trying to give us little riding
tips, such as telling us our shoelace is untied when we're spinning at
top speed on a Coker. We've finally learned that it's best to ignore
his "help" and strike out on our own. Sounds like you've figured out the
same...

See you down the one wheel trail...

Tom

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Greg & Tom -

Thanks for your encouragement. Unicycling is way fun, and I'm pleased
with my progress. Hope to be able to attend one of the West Coast MUni
weekends in 2005. In the meantime, I need to learn to idle, hop, and
ride longer distances.

zuni.

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