Hi Everyone!
The weather here is finally cooling off enough to ride at lunch time in Florida.
At lunch, my wife walks the mile to my office and I walk back with her pushing
my uni. I then ride back. I did a mile exactly in about 10 minutes.
Now my problem, after several months off, I am having trouble with the insides
of my legs being sore after riding, what can I do? I have a cheap “savage” 20"
that I picked up locally.
David
Re: Finally riding again
I’d be interested in learning which seats that you all have found to be the most
comfortable. I have an old Oxford unicycle that my grandparents bought for me
almost 29 years ago (gee that made me feel old suddenly 
It’s the only
unicycle I’ve ever had and I’ve been pretty happy with it. But the only seat I
liked was the one that I wrecked and thrashed while learning to ride it–almost
29 years ago…
The seat I liked was almost the same width from front to back–in fact it
was hard for most folks to tell the difference between the front and back of
the unicycle. I don’t know if it was leather, but it was slick–that is it
didn’t stick and rub your rear and inner thighs raw, and it wasn’t hard on
the tail bone.
I’d really like to get hold of a seat like my old one…
DanRe: Finally riding again/Saddles
>I’d be interested in learning which seats that you all have found to be the
>most comfortable. I have an old Oxford unicycle that my grandparents bought for
>me almost 29 years ago (gee that made me feel old suddenly It’s the only
>unicycle I’ve ever had and I’ve been pretty happy with it. But the
only
>seat I liked was the one that I wrecked and thrashed while learning to ride
>it–almost 29 years ago…
>
>The seat I liked was almost the same width from front to back–in fact it was
>hard for most folks to tell the difference between the front and back of the
>unicycle. I don’t know if it was leather, but it was slick–that is it didn’t
>stick and rub your rear and inner thighs raw, and it wasn’t hard on
the
>tail bone.
>
>I’d really like to get hold of a seat like my old one…
I have a similar old Oxford uni. It has a hard seat, of a type I don’t think you
can get anymore. However, you can get similar saddles, of a similar shape, from
the Unicycle Factory.
Call Tom Miller (317) 452-2692, in Kokomo, Indiana. He probably has the biggest
selection anywhere, and may even have a saddle like the one you used to use.
Caution. 29 years ago, your body may have been a different shape and age, and
that old saddle may not give you the same results today that it did then!
John Foss, President International Unicycling Federation unifoss@cerfnet.com