concious balance?

General
1

I just bought a unicycle and have no idea how to ride one. My question to
those who are moderately experience unicyclist is this: are you conscious
of keeping a balance? On my bicycle, I don’t have to “think” to stay
balanced. My mind can wander elsewhere while my body stays balanced with
the bike. I’m just wondering if riding a unicycle is the same thing.

Thanks.

2

Once you learn to unicycle, you don’t need to be conscious of balancing. Just like for walking or bicycling.

3

I’m something of a novice and it definitely takes concentration to stay
on. Try this link for instructions on how to ride:
http://www.unicycling.org/unicycling/howtoride.html

pancake head <pancakes@email.net> wrote in message
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> I just bought a unicycle and have no idea how to ride one. My question
> to those who are moderately experience unicyclist is this: are you
> conscious
of
> keeping a balance? On my bicycle, I don’t have to “think” to stay
balanced.
> My mind can wander elsewhere while my body stays balanced with the bike.
> I’m just wondering if riding a unicycle is the same thing.

4

Welcome to the club. I have been riding (learning) since September last
year. Initially I was very aware that I was trying to keeping a balance,
but not how, i.e. it all goes too quickly to e.g. consciously decide
what torque to apply. Now I can ride consistently but still not very
smoothly, i.e. little corrections are taking place all the time. This is
going fully automatic though. It’s even funny to consciously focus on
what’s otherwise happening on the autopilot, all these little twitches of
muscles that do their own thing and apparently serve the purpose.

Klaas Bil

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 02:48:44 GMT, “pancake head”
<pancakes@email.net> wrote:

>I just bought a unicycle and have no idea how to ride one. My question to
>those who are moderately experience unicyclist is this: are you conscious
>of keeping a balance? On my bicycle, I don’t have to “think” to stay
>balanced. My mind can wander elsewhere while my body stays balanced with
>the bike. I’m just wondering if riding a unicycle is the same thing.
>
>Thanks.
>
>

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