Re: Craziest thing on an entry level

3-4 foot drop on a 16" savage. it was jsut a few days after i had joined
the forums and i had no idea what the word "taco" meant, all i knew was
that a lot of people were using the word in their posts. i looked down
after the drop and it immediately clicked 🙂

In conclusion, savages prefer to stay on the ground.

-grant

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Rode down a snow/ice covered hill on a Torker CX 24" to impress a
girl.

I slipped, the unicycle dug into the ice, and was sorta catapulted into
the air. It bounced a few times, twisting the rim pretty bad. I'll never
forget sliding down that hill on my back, looking up, and seeing my
beloved unicycle spinning and flipping so violently.

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Funny how in this forum, no one thinks it's weird if someone says, "I
tacoed my giraffe..."
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I did a 4 foot drop with a Torker CX and twisted the crank so that the
pedal pointed inward at the rim.

I also did drops on a generic 26 inch with a terrible rim. Its
hilarious, I still have the rim. Every time you try to mount it, it
tacos, and then you can just pop it back into place.

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Suicide mounted my Torker CX 24 off of a 5 foot high railing. That's how
I got my rim in the position it's in now.

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hmmmmm...... so, the moral of this forum is: don't take your torker off
of any drops bigger than 2ft?

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Well duh.

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Trying to ultimate wheel a stock steel wheel.

It warped upon my second down stroke

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"Entry level" unicycles used to be all you could get. So most everything
here is on entry level cycles:

http://www.unicycling.com/things/index.htm

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Here's an amusing anecdote...

The week before halloween, we had a whole lot of rain. I don't know how
many inches, but the river than runs through town had overrun it's
banks.

There were some real nice paved walking trails that ran through some
woods alongside this same river. I had some time to kill, so I took my
unicycle down for some scenic riding.

There was a spot just before a bridge that was submerged in six inches
of water. I thought it might be a sign of things to come, but I figured,
"The rest of the trail will be mostly dry, and the water won't get much
deeper than that"

so I pressed on.

I came to another submerged part of the trail, right before a bend. I
figured the water would only continue for a few feet around the corner,
so I carefully rode into it. As I turned, I saw that the next hundred
feet or so was completely under water. I figured my feet were already
wet, so I kept riding.

At that point, my entire wheel was swimming.

eventually, I came back onto dry land. I was already thinking how I was
going to explain to my friends who my pants were wet (Oh, nothing. I was
just unicycling through about two feet of flood water, that's all.),
when I came to yet another washed out section of trail. It looked deeper
than the previous sections, and so I considered turning back.
Unfortunately, that would have meant riding back through the 100 feet of
deep water. And, as if to tempt me, I could see the end of the trail.
So, I pulled my pants up to my knees, and rode in.

The water quickly rode up over my wheel, over my frame, my saddle, until
it was well above my belly button. I ended up tripping over a rock, and
being unable to remount, I swam the remaining distance.

Craziest thing done on an entry level unicycle: Rode through five feet
of flood water.

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Funny how in this forum, no one thinks it's weird if someone says, "I
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I liked that water one. Why is there always a rock or a pothole at the
deepest point in the underwater section?

We used to ride our unicycles into pools. I was never able to make a
proper dive off a diving board though. Closest I ever came was getting
from vertical to horizontal before hitting the water (belly flop). I
stopped experimenting around that point. Last time I did that was in the
Philippines in 1999.

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Torker Cx 20", Five Set 180, upon landing snapped the front crank arm
off, sheering the hub. Fell on the stairs, crank shot out about 15 feet
behind me. It was rad. HAHA. This trick is easily done with the DX
without trouble. Really a awesome looking trick.

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When i got bored with unicycling on my crapy 24" no-name unicycle (also
before i learnt you could actually do tricks on one courtesy of this
site) i thought i would combine three of my hobbies. So i took my
unicycle on our trampoline. Also i rode it off our schools 3 metre
springboard into the pool. Unfortunately no one caught that on tape but
here's a pic of me on our trampoline on my unicycle,
Mark

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Sockmonster, that exact same thing happened to me, but with a mini dirt
bike. I rode it through a big puddle (about 1 foot deep) and it stopped
running so i had to drag it home. Instead of going back through the
puddle, i went another way. There i saw a huge area covered in water
with thick vines all over it. At first, it was only a couple of inches
deep, so i started through it, thinking that it was a much better option
than the puddle. By the time i was in the middle of it, it was about 3
feet deep, i was up to my waist in water, the dirt bike was completely
submerged - and really heavy by now, and the vines were more like beaver
dams that i had to lift the dirt bike up and over to get any further
towards home. I still remember it as one of the worst - and most
frustrating - days of my life. I was so [censored] that i hadn't gone back
through the 1-foot puddle at the beginning.

Thanks to you though, i can now laugh that my worst day happened to
someone else. Hahaha! Sucks to be us, i guess.

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I did A LOT of snow/offroad on my old 24" Cycle Pro... That's prolly
why the hub bent on it... It wasn't designed for repeated drops off 6"
curbs with a 200lb guy riding it 😉
http://evil.linuxfreak.ca/unisnow.jpg

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