What's the best technique for curbs?

Hopping? 😕

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Can do it that way. It's all about the challenge.😉

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Once you get better at guaging distance, you can accually hop to the
spot that will put your cranks in the right position when you roll up
to the obstacle.

Honestly, in the "real world" you'll find yourself hopping over curb+
size obstacles. It's rough and hard on your rim, to just go slamming
into suff.

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onetrack said:

It's rough and hard on your rim, to just go slamming into suff.

Agreed. You don't have to hop, but you have to go through the motions
thereof. It's going to be hard to raise your body that 4" if all you
do is just roll into the curb... so just before you get to the curb,
start moving your body upwards... as if you were going to hop. Pull up
on the handle a bit. You don't have to get the tire off the ground,
you just need you help your uni go up and over the curb. "Up" is the
key word here... you're not rolling over a bump, you're increasing your
altitude!

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What maestro described is often called "unweighting" the unicycle. This
allows you to ride over stuff that would be impossible otherwise. It's
kind of cheating, but hey, it would be impossible otherwise so it's
okay.

Also you could use a bigger wheel/fatter tire. My Wilder with 24" Gazz
will roll up a 4" curb in any pedal position with little problem. I
assume you're on a 20" or Trials uni. 😉

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George Peck said:

I love curbs, you can never spend enough time on curbs. Rolling is by
far the most elegant way to ride up curbs. Your weight is off the
saddle, and by pushing down on your front pedal you can torque the
wheel to roll you up the curb.

Hehe couldn't resist :P

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Lean back just as you hit, the unicycle is going to slow down going over
the curb, and that tends to throw you forward. As you ride more,
you'll also get better at making adjustments for riding over the curb.
Aim for the curb, but by turning away from the curb and back towards
it, you can guarantee you hit it right.

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I am glad Underdog brought this up. Rolling up curbs fascinates me, but
I don't do it.

Funny thing, my memory from back in my teens when I learned to ride a
unicycle, I remember riding down curbs, and have vague memory of
'thinking' how cool and surprizing easy it was to ride up the curb. But
I do not have a memory of actually riding up a curb.

Now about 40 years later, rolling up a curb looks impossible. I want to
power-roll up them but it confounds me that I can not be sure that the
cranks will be in the proper positions to power up. Even on my Coker I
don't roll-up curbs more then 2 inches high.

So my goal this summer is to work on going up curbs. I'd like to roll
up curbs on my 24" Muni and my Coker. Since I can hop up a 4" curb,
that "unwieghting" up a curb should be a resonable next step.

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And then when you find hopping or rolling up curbs are both too easy,
you can always try throwing in a 360, a rolling unispin or a crankflip
up the curb!!

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