I got my first one for christmas in 1971 at the age of twelve. I bought a schwinn 24" that summer and started doing my paper route with it. I then started picking up the neighborhood kids and gave them rides on my shoulders. Talk about a moms freakin out! Ha! I even went to the circus and bought an 8' uni. I used to lean it against the gutter on the garage and then climbed a ladder and got on the roof to get on it. After a couple years of semi regular riding I put it away and took it out once or twice a year. About six months ago I saw some unicyclist on youtube and was shocked. You young guys are sooooo talented. I then broke out the old schwinn and got back at it. In the last 6 months I bought a 26" torker, a 20" sun, and a 36" nimbus. I am 48 now and am hooked for life! This is great exercise and there is so much diversity as to what you can do on them.
Last feb I first ever tried one. I didn't know how I would ever learn, but I did. Now 9months later I am sif'in up 20" ledges with no prehop and doing the occasional 180 if a picnic table top.
-- wickedbob
R.I.P MITCH HEDBERG
jerrick said:
I think we should get off the topic off kinky/horny girls and unicycles, and back to creepy horny men.
summer 2003 i got a torker cx 20" i rode to school and just around for a while. I was kidding when i asked for it for my bday but i got the bug. I sold that and upgraded to the 24". I still have the 24" but it now has a bent rim as I started actually getting into serous riding this summer. I mostly ride Muni on my dx 24" and have gotten so many other people hooked.
I bought my first uni 2 years ago (not sure why, just something different to do), tried for a bit but lost interest (didn't know this site existed, didn't know about MUni or any of the really cool stuff going on here). 6 months ago I found this site and thought I would give it another go, it stuck and I got totally hooked!
I started because I am into juggling, and every time I went to youtube to watch juggling videos, I always seemed to some how find some unicycling videos, and I watched them. :p Also most of the juggling shops on the internet have some cheep unicycles for sale, so that also sparked my interest. So I got one, and have been riding ever since. 🙂
learnt to ride last year at school (circus skills workshop, the uni was the only thing that was appealing to me) got first uni this april, now have a second...
i started last christmas when i got my first learner uni and i have been at it ever since. im celebrating one year of riding by getting a nimbus trials uni this christmas 🙂
