Ultimate Wheel Info Wanted

Most experienced riders can learn the UW in about an hour--or less.

Once you get the hang of it, it can get a little boring. It's also
really strenuous unless you're quite skilled. Perhaps the best way to
imrprove (worked for me) is to keep the UW handy, and after every ride,
put in a few minutes on the UW. It's a great way to cap off the
workout and you improve quickly. Another way is to find a pretty flat
and easy out and back trail, hike up it with the UW and see how much of
it you can ride down. Since you gotta get back to the car anyhow,
you'll end up riding, or trying to ride, more than you normally would
on the street.

The hardest part of the UW is often just getting yourself to practice
it in the first place.

JL

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my guess is that there arent many ricks you can do on a UW. but as said
by vivalargo its a good capper to a workout. but to save money riding
sif or seat drags/pushes are practicaly the same as the UW

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Kick-up mount
jump rope
spin
idle
backwards
stillstand
180
spin the UW, then jump on
jump mount
rolling mount
jump from one UW to another rolling in front of you
MUni

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vivalargo said:

Most experienced riders can learn the UW in about an hour--or less.
JL

I gues either I am not included in the group "most", or else I am not
experienced. I find ultimate wheels to be quite difficult to ride.
Actually the one time I tried a disk type ultimate wheel, I was able to
ride a ways right off, but even after several hours I still find my
ultimate wheel (the wheel off my freestyle unicycle, a 20" with 102mm
cranks) to be quite difficult to ride. This thread reminds me that I
should practice it again....

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sevenasterisks said:

I gues either I am not included in the group "most", or else I am not
experienced. I find ultimate wheels to be quite difficult to ride.
Actually the one time I tried a disk type ultimate wheel, I was able to
ride a ways right off, but even after several hours I still find my
ultimate wheel (the wheel off my freestyle unicycle, a 20" with 102mm
cranks) to be quite difficult to ride. This thread reminds me that I
should practice it again....

I would say that the hour or less rule of thumb that vivalargo
mentioned is a bit optimistic, but not too far off. If you can ride
seat out front (holding the seat extended) you could likely manage to
ride an UW in an hour or three. That's for a disk style UW. The
cranky style (wheel off of a standard unicycle) UW is a different
matter entirely. The cranky style is more difficult and quite an
impressive feat.

I bought my first UW at nationals in Minnesota. I had never even tried
to ride a UW before. I bought it in the morning and was able to ride
it in the UW race that afternoon and I managed to finish the 40 meters
for the race without falling. I wasn't fast but I was glad to be able
to finish it. I practiced for about threeish hours on and off before
doing the race.

The cranky style UW is different. You cannot let it tip and rub your
legs like you can with a disk style UW. You have to keep it properly
vertical with dexterous footwork. I have only tried a cranky UW twice
and that was just briefly. It will take much more practice than the
disk style UW.

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johnfoss said:

Kick-up mount
jump rope
spin
idle
backwards
stillstand
180
spin the UW, then jump on
jump mount
rolling mount
jump from one UW to another rolling in front of you
MUni

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specific questions.

you forgot thats you can jump with an ultimate wheel not high but
still a jump

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dan de man said:

you forgot thats you can jump with an ultimate wheel not high but still
a jump

I can side hop an UW further than i can on my regular uni (not that
it's very far 🙂 )

Juggling and chin balancing is possible, too. There was a chap at a
convention a few years back who was juggling and then lifting his leg
and throwing a club under it. Nice trick

...and don't forget handstand, slackrope UWing :eek:

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dan de man said:

you forgot thats you can jump with an ultimate wheel not high but still
a jump

I can side hop an UW further than i can on my regular uni (not that
it's very far 🙂 )

Juggling and chin balancing is possible, too. There was a chap at a
convention a few years back who was juggling and then lifting his leg
and throwing a club under it. Nice trick

...and don't forget handstand, slackrope UWing :eek:

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thanks guys

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thanks guys

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On http://unicyclist.org/cont/freestyle.cfm check the section named
"ultimate wheel"

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jump rope your fooling me i'll start practicing🙂

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i just started building one, well not really started but iv been getting
the parts to build one... im making a 17" from an old road bike
wheel...i just have to figure a cheap and easy way of getting the
pedals attached, i dont have any extra crank arms.... but good luck to
learning !!!

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