Rail riding training...

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Andrew_carter

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2 April 2004, 13:13 UTC #1

I've decided that I want to become good at riding along
narrow things. I made the first part of something today that
will hopefully really help me improve. There are a few more
bits and pieces to add to it but you can get the idea from
these photos. I reckon if I spend about 30 minutes every
second day on it for a while it should work well.

What I've built so far is a portable and strong (well it
will eventually be strong) rail that will fit into the car
and is quick to set up. All the bits of wood are 35mm x 70mm
planks that somebody was throwing out and the screws are
60mm for those who are interested. I plan to make a support
for the middle of the beam and add a couple of other little
things and then make a second copy. I'll end up with about a
4 or 5m long, 35mm wide rail to practise on. The supports
are made so that they can be pressed right up against each
other. I might even do what George B suggested and make them
bolt togetherable.

35mm wide seems like the perfect width for this sort of
thing. It's not quite as challenging as a 2cm diameter round
railing, but it's narrow enough that I'll have to focus on
staying on top of the uni rather than moving the wheel side
to side underneath me...more of a moving still stand if that
makes any sense.

I'm going to practise by first riding along it, then going
slower and slower. I'll also try to work on still stands
several times a week.

I just thought I'd tell you about it...maybe it will give
you some ideas. I know other people posting photos of their
structures have helped me a lot.

Here are some higher resolution photos -
unicyclist.comalbup15

Andrew

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Robbie

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2 April 2004, 13:13 UTC #2

Thanks Andrew, I also want to learn to ride along rails and
stuff. I still got a long way to go though as I can only do
thin walls, maybe 20cm wide? Yeah it's pathetic, but I'm
getting better. So I'm gonna have to practice on those for a
while but once I'm better I'm gonna build one of these with
my dad and this design you made looks pretty good although I
would like one with say a rail to get up on. Just wondering
how do you get up on that, when I'm doing walls there's
either a ramp leading to it or a person next to me because I
can't free mount them successfully everytime (only some of
it) so are you just like hell good at free mounting? Hop up?
Or do you have some other method?

Anyway thanks again and I hope to build one of these one
day, might change it a bit here and there but yours looks
quite good.

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Pete66

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2 April 2004, 13:14 UTC #3

nice setup! is the grass portable too? :p

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