(not sure if this is in the right place)
Ok, so I am from Chicago (very flat area) and when my friend invited me
to go to vail for a week I had no choice but to bring my Muni even
though I am quite the nooby. After I got over my head ache the first
day, we rented mtn. bikes and went to the Gondola. It was there, to my
dismay, that I found out from a manager or something that unicycles
were not aloud on the lift. When I asked why he said that "We require
dual breaks" in which I responded "But... It's a unicycle" to which he
replied "Good Point. You need dual suspension breaks" (very smugley).
And so my friend and I went down the Mtn. 5 times on our bikes(mind you
I have never seen a real Mtn up close).
And so the next day I made the decision to haul my quite heavy
torker DX up Vail Mtn. I learned that rolling a unicycle up fairly
steep hiking trails is tougher that I thougt so my friend who was
hiking with me helped me out a bit. With about 20 minutes till the top
of the Mtn. I decided that my friend should keep going and take the
gondola down and I should start to ride down. I had no idea if I would
end up walking it the whole way down. To my suprise, once I started
riding it, it was a tremendous reliefe. I have never been more relaxed
and energized in my life. Unfortunatly, I dont have a break so my legs
were really burning from the semi steep declines but I managed not to
fall. Amazingly, the only time I really had to get off was for bikers.
This ended up giving me a whole new epreciation towards unicycling and
was one of the most amazing and fullfilling experiences of my life and
will motivate me to continue pushing myself when it comes to
unicycling.
Also, would breaks have helped my legs or just made it slightly more
safe?
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