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Naomi said:

*Has anyone tried riding a unicycle on one of those gym treadmills?
If so
how did you get on, is it possible, or just too plain stupid?
Any
advice to other idiots wanting to try?*

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I don't see why it shouldn't be possible once you get going. You would
probably need to hold onto something while the treadmill gets up to
speed, then let go.

Might be hard to find a gym that would let you try it though....

EDIT: Just saw that other thread - sounds like it is possible then.

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Actually it occurs that unicycles and treadmills have great comedy
potential. You know, a clowns at the gym routine. I'm slapping my knee
already.

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I have tried it before. I only tried for like 5 minutes cause i didnt
want to get in trouble. ( I was at a public place.) I couldn't do it
very well. Then again that was when i just learned to ride. (About a
month or two afterwards.)

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LOL, that sounds like a cool idea. I have never tried it so i am going
to try it right now.😄

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Weird, I was thinking about an hour ago about riding a Coker on one of
those bike trainers. I wonder how difficult that would be?
http://https://shop.sunrisecyclery.com/display/1858/0/

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Treadmills are certainly doable. Ive ridden moving walkways a couple of
times too. Its fun when you go with it cause you feel like your going
reallly fast.

Escalators are hard to go down when your going against them.

And those Bike rollers are REALLY hard. I think it would be useful to
have some resistance on them, otherwise itd be like riding on ice.

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I have a picture of Wayne Haines (maybe we'll see him at NAUCC) riding a
unicycle on an un-powered treadmill in 1981. You have to hold onto the
railings for that one, but that's the point.

On a motorized treadmill it's a piece of cake, relatively. Just stay
centered!

On rollers, yes it's kind of like trying to do a stillstand while
pedaling. I haven't tried it.

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me and my pal Vince tried to ride the handrail of them escalators
once....oddly difficult, it's like a treadmill skinny... only...
unusually hard

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johnfoss said:

On rollers, yes it's kind of like trying to do a stillstand while
pedaling. I haven't tried it.

Not entirely. You could use the roller's rotational inertia to your
advantage. But I haven't tried it either.

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Murde Mental said:

*me and my pal Vince tried to ride the handrail of them escalators
once....oddly difficult, it's like a treadmill skinny... only...
unusually hard *

Now that sounds like some futuristic trials... how did the ride go?
Does the handrail survive the ride? If I could get away with it and
avoid prosecution, I'd love to try it someday!

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[image: http://www.bicyclemagic.com/smsimg/4/256t1050.jpg]

Has anyone tried to ride one of these? my freind has one 'cos he's
training for the next olympics but you can use them for a unicycle too.
well, for a few seconds. you just get faster and faster until your legs
fly off.

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alexmay said:

*[image: http://www.bicyclemagic.com/smsimg/4/256t1050.jpg]

Has anyone tried to ride one of these? my freind has one 'cos he's
training for the next olympics but you can use them for a unicycle
too. well, for a few seconds. you just get faster and faster until
your legs fly off. *

I have it and tried it.Experience as above.On longer run very boring.🙂

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good fun though, but I found it hard to keep in a straight line, as soon
as you begin to veer left or right you're done for.

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