10" Ultimate Wheel: 1 month progress

This is my absolute best run so far:

To be clear, more than even any other unicycle, this is a fun toy for me, it’s not about getting from point A to point B with any speed, grace, or efficiency. Though if I eventually get a small measure of those things on this wheel that will be fun too. I do this because I find it fun, I enjoy this type of challenge (most of the time), it’s good exercise and balance training, and I get some fun conversations and reactions.

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Now I’ll be damn I thought I seen all the wheels this one is a good one. Right on man.

Do a century ride :upside_down_face:

Thanks! Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ll never see all the wheels. Especially in a world where things like the crab cycle exist (pedal forward for going to the right and backward for going to the left):
https://sillycycle.com/crab.html

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Ha! Sure. But make sure you have Guinness there to document it, and refreshment pit stops set up for me every 1/10th of a mile.

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My 10" ultimate wheel ride from yesterday. It has been about 4 years since my first ride to learn.

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which size UW do you like best, the 28 or the 10? How often do you ride it - I reckon you’ve also kept at it within those 4 years? For me with the 36" I noticed that with a few months in between, I could ride it again in 3-4 tries. I reckon the learning process is so intense, that it burns into your muscle memory and once learned you will never forget.
Pity you live so far away.

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I have 10", 20", 24", and 28". I was able to ride them for short distances but never long enough to ride them continuously with ease. I’ve also borrowed a 36" from others for a while, but ended up wrenching my ankle by sticking my foot into the center hole.

10" is my favorite ultimate wheel among many sizes because the larger wheels rub my legs a lot(maybe due to my lack of skill), but not this one. I had been practicing ultimate wheel every week for several months in the beginning. Maybe because of my flat feet, I found my feet’s soles ache after riding. So nowadays I only ride this 10" one occasionally, and haven’t tried any other sizes for a long time. Maybe one day I’ll try to start over again.

Well done!! You really got it. That’s a nice long ride on that tiny wheel! It’s fun to see you make it go.

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I learned on the 28", because the idea of just having a wheel in the car and just going for a few km ride, seemed like a nice thing to be able to do. just a wheel doesn’t take as much space as a whole unicycle. I had totally overdone it with practice and the day I wanted to take the wheel for a ride, my right knee gave very sharp stings, so I just had to quit. The good thing of the 28" is that the tire is very thin and doesn’t rub my pants so much that it acts as a brake. Then I got the 36" which practically rolls on its own and last time I did 150 metres with it. So I figured I could buy the 24", but its tire is so wide that it is glued to my leg, so I never managed to ride the 24 UW.

Btw taking a UW for a few km’s is not realistic. I will never be able to do that. It just burns through the energy in my legs in a very short time.

Bravo to any and all who can ride even for a short distance!

My old knees are just not up for learning, hate this but is what it is. Even tall uni getting very little use for same reason, getting old as a very active sportive sucks!

Owe

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Well put :wink:
It sure looks like a lot of fun and quite an achievement to be able to ride such a beast. :+1: