I’m wondering what is ur favorite trick or biggest accomplishment on ur unicycle! Your accomplishment or trick doesn’t need to be anything fancy, it could literally be riding a unicycle a couple of feet! Like I said it’s YOUR biggest accomplishment. Please only compare yourself to you. You may think it’s small but not many people can even ride a unicycle!
My biggest accomplishment is that I rode 40 mi in one day. I can’t do very many tricks, I mainly train as a cross country unicyclist.
Edit: I said if your accomplishment could be riding a couple of feet, if your from another country that uses a different measuring system -like a couple of yards (or whatever the conversion is- idk lol, im trying to be inclusive)
I would say my two biggest accomplishments are when I finished a gravelman (a gravel race made for bikes) with 135 km and 1600 m of climbing, and the 350 km I did in 24 hours during the “24 heures de l’insa”
Ultimate wheel: traversing a 1/3 mile loop with up and down hill without dismounting.
On the uni itself nothing terribly impressive, but probably my biggest is related: riding seat-in-front including figure-8s and getting in and out of it on the move. Slowly trying to progress that to seat drag and “ultimately” to cranky ultimate wheel.
Simultaneously rolling a cigarette in high wind while juggling a bowling ball, a running chain saw, and a duck feather, riding backwards on a 1" diameter pipe 25 feet over a rocky waterfall.
My greatest achievement is definitely learning to wheel walk.
While we were working as artists in Turkey on a contract for 6 months, we had time to study, and around the time of the contract I began to gain control.
it was a unicycle skill that was perceived by me as the “holy grail”. I think that after it runs stably, I will be able to check the box “my unicycle learning way is completed”
@Shi ive literally been learning how to do that and I can do it comfortable while having one hand on a wall or something but I can’t do it past thst. Impressive!!! Awesome job!
shoes should have soft rubber (not foam, not plastic), flat, maximally sticky soles. the tire must be dry and clean. Your feet need to be pressed firmly against the tire and not just driven along it.
as with any other skill, you watch all the video tutorials on the Internet that you can find on this topic. you try to mirror the choreography and the overall speed/rhythm of movements from those who perform this element freely. Ideally, you find yourself an offline coach who not only understands the task, but also thinks methodically. if there is no suitable trainer available, you periodically record yourself on video and either watch it yourself, comparing with the video those who can perform the element, or ask someone on the Internet to tell you what technical errors you have.
Thanks! Cleaning the tire could help indeed. It‘s not really dirty, but it collects some dust when I ride around. My shoes seem reasonable for the task. It comes probably mostly down to practice, I guess.
For me, the biggest accomplishment is any trick that takes 4 months or more to get it. That includes riding just a few feet when I first started to learn. Then later the 1 foot rides, idles. But the hardest and recent ones are the wheel walks(1 foot, 2 feet) , and 1 foot reverse ride, which took me forever and I am still perfecting them. Each took me more than 2 years just to do them satisfactorily!
