I’ve been reading here for a few months and finally was able to order my Nimbus Drak 29" recently. Please forgive this bragging thread but I’m just really excited! I’ve never ridden a unicycle before this week. My goal was to ride around my gravel circular drive (350’),without dismounting, before the new year.
12-17-12 - UPS brought the uni. Assembled, shortened seatpost. Pushed the furniture out of the way and rode for 1.5 hours in the carpeted basement. Most rides were half to 1 full crank revolution. A couple of “rides” were 1.5 to 2 crank revolutions.
12-18-12 - Rode in the basement for 15 min in the morning, 20-30% were 1.5-2 revolutions.
12-19-12 - Rode in the basement for 1.5 hours. 1.5-2 crank revolutions about 70% of the time. Running out of space in the basement but learning to balance, correct direction, slow down, and dismount .
12-20-12 - Rode 1.25 hours in the basement, 75% of rides were full length (20-25’), practiced free mounting, rode away approx 5 out of 50 tries.
12-22-12 - First ride outside. Almost all of the riding area at my house is gravel/dirt. Rode many 30-50 foot rides, some 80-90 foot and longest was 130’. Freemounted and rode about 40 feet once.
12-23-12 - Quite a few 200-300 foot rides. Completed circular drive ride (my goal before the new year)! Longest ride was about 405’.
I really appreciate all of the threads and information on this forum. Hopefully I can start contributing in some way.