Do any of you still bike after learning to uni? Like MTB or BMX? I think I’ll still like to dirt jump some, but I am not sure I’ll want to MTB or ride one on the road once I can muni. I am wondering if I should put ANY money into my MTB or just whatever I need to get in shape on the trails til I can ride muni.
Never even considered it. It would just be a total bore to me, in every respect. For me, MUni is so much more fun, a vastly superior workout, and I feel I am-forgive the pun-“one” with my MUni and nature. You work for every inch as you go, unlike a bike that has 2 dozen gears to help you climb, and a free wheel to let you sit on your butt and coast…and coast…and coast downhill for miles and miles!; “hey look at me, I’m a hard core mtber sitting on my ass coasting down this hill! Aren’t I just amazing!?” There’s simply nothing else like MUni. It’s a lean, mean, calorie burnin’ machine! Care to take her for a spin? 
I still race XC mountain bikes. The two are vastly different, I uni for excersise and mountain bike for speed and distance. Also Terry, don’t you find you’re a bit biased? I would hate if a biker talked to me like that while riding my uni, it isn’t like bikes are that easy, they require just as many skills as uni’s do. Also, I ride a singlespeed, and it isn’t like I can coast very much around here with just as many ups as there are downs.
…at 30+ mph, yeah, must be a cinch. Douche.
I still bike, actually got into after unicycling for a year. I ride a trials unicycle, do a little muni on it, but not much. I’ve got a trials bike in the mail, never ridden one, but they seem fun so I’ll have a go.
I really like road biking though, was going to buy a touring bike for this summer, but I some how got a trials instead. I own a coker as well as a road bike. I love them both. I like the bike for speed and being practical, and use the uni for more fun.
I love speed, and just the flow of bicycles, if I had the money I would have way more bikes and unicycles.
I see no reason to limit yourself to a uni or bike, or one kind of bike or unicycle. I want to try it all and see what I enjoy. Some look at it as a waste of money, but what if I never got that first uni and went through my life never know about something I love? Sure, I may loose some money on my trials bike if I don’t like it, but that is just what it takes to figure stuff out.
If you like your bike after ride it, if not don’t. It’s not like you can not own a unicycle and bike.
Terry, blah blah. There are mtb’er who’ve been riding and gaining xp longer than Muni has really been around, they go bigger, faster, and a lot of what they do takes much longer to learn. Aka harder. One day we will be there, but not yet. At this moment in time we haven’t seen the people with amazing skills really come out, though we are getting close with people like Max and Joe, and Spencer etc… See what kind of riding they will be doing in a few years.
Harsh, plus .5 though.
I feel awkward on bikes now, the whole coasting thing throws me out of wack and I don’t like it anymore. I used to do a lot of fast DH around here, but I’m having much more fun with my uni just on the street to my house.
I’m also curious about the trials bikes though, I hope you’ll put up some videos and such wickedbob
If I get a job, I did plan on getting a camera. Kind of iffy with the situation now, also a camera is on the low end of priorities.
I will say after uni I coast a lot less, and when I go down hills I pedal like mad to get as fast as I can go. I appreciate speed a lot more now. I also keep my bike in the hardest gear possible unless it is physically impossible for me to turn the cranks.
Edit: Check out Observedtrials.net, they are a fun bunch of guys, some awesome videos on there. Whatever you do if you get on there, do not take yourself seriously or anybody else. I would stay away from off topic if you don’t like offensive things like shock porn. All and all I enjoy the sight, but you need a good sense of humor.
I’ve posted things on there that would probably get me banned here, just have to act appropriate for the setting. OTN is kind of like hanging out with your buddies, vulgar and funny.
WARNING 2AM ramble
I have a couple bikes but they don’t get much use. One is my grocery getter with an Xtracycle extension. The X used to be my my main transportation but over the years all the nice pieces wore out/broke and were replaced with heavy, cheep and durable parts and the thing is pretty much a tank.
My other bike right now I found abandoned on the side of the street. Twisted handlebars, bent fork, wobbly wheels and a crank bent in so far it hit the frame. After some loving (bashing the thing on a cement pillar to get it back in shape) and a bit of work with a spoke wrench and allen key it became quite ridable. I use it if I need to get somewhere fast but never lock it so I am not guaranteed a ride back. I would actually be fairly satisfied if someone stole it because then it went from something that was abandoned because nobody wanted it to something worth stealing. I call it the re-cycle
So I have a few unicycles, my X and the re-cycle. My 26" Muni gets the most use by far.
I ride bikes more than I unicycle. I road bike constantly for transportation and pleasure, and occasionally mountain bike with friends. I have a street uni in my car for when I’m at the skate park and don’t want to skateboard, and my muni gets used for trips to Northstar or the occasional group ride. I don’t consider the two(unicycling and bicycling) to be the same type of activity for me, even though they are very similar in some aspects, they are also very different. If I had to chose one, I’d chose two, it’s much more utilitarian. If it’s sunny out and the weather is right, my first though is usually to ride to/around Tahoe on my bike seconded by the urge to go on a muni ride. My attitude is mostly caused by the lack of avid unicyclists in my area, and an abundance of people who road bike. However, I don’t participate in any road cycling forums, instead I enjoy the company of other road cyclists, and an occasional commuter who catches the same light as me.
I already sold my street bike since for me riding on the street got boring and not safe now to ride the streets. I really love the 24" BMX since I do feel fast on it and can safely jump off things. My MTB, not so sure now so thats why the post. Around here we have more technical stuff and a muni actually kills a big MTB cause it can manuever better. Just if I upgraded a few things, I could go over some bigger logs and stuff better and faster on a MTB and that might still be fun for me at certain trails. Of course my MTB is more XC, nothing aggressive really so not sure if I should see if I can upgrade that for something more fun/aggressive made for jumping, then I would be without a decent commuter too. Just might like a cruiser uni better since around here, its not so road bike friendly that I wouldnt go long distance by bike alone anyways. Just thinking… Or I could put minimum money into my XC MTB so it can handle the trails better and see later if I still into my MTB or if its collecting dust now due to a muni.
I am kind of agreeing with Terry on this one. Most mtbers around here hardly break a sweat. They look kind of silly going up a hill in low gear turning the cracks 10 times for every foot they climb. It is cool going down a hill real fast, but it is not much of a workout if your coasting all the way. A 12 or 18 inch drop can easy hurt me real bad on my uni if I fall off, but on a mtb it is a piece of cake. The hard core mtbers are a different story. They ride the up hill technical stuff that most people walk and they ride on the higher gears most of the time and actually get an excellent workout. I still applaud the regular mtbers, at least they are out there doing something instead of vegging out in front of the tv.
The road bikers are funny because they all have to dress for the occasion. They all have to have the fancy bike shorts and fancy jerseys before they even consider going bike riding. I never see a road biker wearing a regular tank top or tee shirt.
I agree on roadbikers lol. They have team jerseys with a gut and going 5 mph lol.
Hum…wondering if maybe if I upgraded my rockhopper as needed if that could handle the faster/higher stuff? And when I get better, get a 24" muni, commute with a hookworm tire til I’m ready for the trails. I think I like the trails better then street. Its nicer to look at, no cars, no fumes, no stopping for an intersection… I need to ride the MTB for now as I’m out of shape and not good enough on uni to go mile after mile yet.
Yes, I agree. You hardly see any of them dressed normally, unless you would happen to see me riding past your house last summer.
I commute just over a mile to work on my bikes. I used to ride a road bike and go really fast, but that bike needs new tires. For some reason it hasn’t got them. Now I commute on my BMX and go really fast. I pretty much turned my BMX into a riding(not trick) machine by a putting a different crank and rear hub on it. So I don’t really try to learn tricks on my BMX like I now do on my uni.
I would ride to work on my uni if I had something larger than a 20". I’ll probably get a 29" sometime in my life, then, once I upgrade to a better uni for street, I would have every unicycle I would ever need. 
If I want to go fast then nothing beats a bike.
They are both two different things and I just so happen to enjoy unicycling ATM. MTBiking is a ton of fun though. I would do that if there were a lot of trails with jumps and huge downhills here (IDK if there are any).
I can see how a single speed or “fixie” could give a similar, if not even better workout than a uni since it’s heavier, and you can’t coast and no gears and all that. I was just expressing my opinion about why I like MUni/uni more than mountain biking. And I always have great conversations with mtbers and we have mutual respect for each other and our chosen sport.
I would not disparage them in any way; The quote I gave (about coating down a hill )was meant to be a joke, should have put in a ;). I was just giving my opinion about how I believe MUni as a workout is harder-in general-over a heavily geared, free-wheeled mtb. I know that bombing down steep terrain on a bike has big risks and takes a lot of skill to negotiate through loose, narrow and sometimes very technical terrain.
On Saturday, a couple guys I was talking with at the top of the trail were worried about one of their brakes not working properly. A while later they passed me on the way back down, and then I saw them again at the end and the one guy had taken a really bad fall and had a gash over his eye that was pretty bad, and the side of his face was all bloody and scraped. So I take nothing away from mtbers. Again I was kidding in my earlier post. :o
Nothing beats the feeling of pulling really nice, long manual on a BMX.
So I guess you’d get a chuckle out of distance unicyclists too then?
There’s a reason for the gear. It keeps you dry; cool in the summer and warm in the winter. It prevents chafing. It’s way more comfortable than anything else you’d consider wearing.
Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it, dude!
if i wanna ride a bike and go fast i just put on some gear and ride my dirt bike 