I have been riding unicycle for awile. I can go bcakwards for a little while and
idle just a little bit, but I am now trying to learn how to ride a 5 foot
giraffe. Any help¿?
Re: giraffe help
You will find riding the giraffe as easy as riding your unicycle. Getting on it
however is another matter and it will require a fair ability to rock or idle.
Practice holding the seat with one foot on the lowest pedal. Push yourself up,
quickly get on the seat and try to get your balance by rocking. Then put your
foot out as you fall to one side and repeat… and repeat…
and repeat…
and repeat…
If you have learned to ride the unicycle you already have the
persistence required.
Mike Hawkins <diffily@flash.net> wrote in message
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> I have been riding unicycle for awile. I can go bcakwards for a little while
> and idle just a little bit, but I am now trying to learn how to ride a 5 foot
> giraffe. Any help¿?
Re: giraffe help
>I have been riding unicycle for awile. I can go bcakwards for a little while
>and idle just a little bit, but I am now trying to learn how to ride a 5 foot
>giraffe. Any help¿?
I just started riding a few weeks ago on a 20" Schwinn. I bought a giraffe
before I could ride the “small” one. I can’t stop or go backwards on either but
can ride them forward almost the same.
I can free-mount the Schwinn but have to climb on mailboxes to get on the
giraffe. I think the extra height is more attractive and if theres a problem
riding it, it’s a “brainfart” as the sprokets are the same size.
When this happens, I jump back on the small one and “get the feeling” again and
then back to the giraffe!
I almost stopped and kinda took a half/rev backwards today before a
spectactular dismount!
Sorry for the “yada yada” but I’m eatin’ this stuff up!
You’ll see me! Steve
Re: giraffe help
Our team requirements for riding a Giraffe:
To ride a giraffe on the Demo Team certain requirements must be passed using the
standard size unicycle.
- 30 rockers left foot, (Idles)
- 30 rockers right foot
- 10 bunny hops (hopping)
- ride backwards across the length of the gym. The Rider is then taught by the
Coach the proper mounts and dismounts. Safety is always a priority. Our team
is boys and girls ages 4-15. The youngest on the giraffe I think are second
graders. Although I have never checked into it. We do have a few “special”
giraffes we call “ostriches” that have shorter seat to pedal. We had highly
skilled riders that didn’t fit the giraffes. Barb K.
Re: giraffe help
Steve <irollmyrpm@aol.com> wrote:
>>I have been riding unicycle for awile. I can go bcakwards for a little while
>>and idle just a little bit, but I am now trying to learn how to ride a 5 foot
>>giraffe. Any help¿?
I’d suggest becoming more solid in idling on the standard unicycle before
attempting to do anything on the giraffe. Riding backwards can also be a very
useful skill to have before riding a giraffe.
Riding a giraffe is much more fun when one doesn’t have to find a support to
mount it from. One may want to ride where there isn’t a nearby support to mount
the giraffe from.
Free mounting a giraffe is much easier when one has already mastered idling and
backwards riding on standard unicycle, since after one quickly climbs up, the
giraffe can be falling in any direction. You will need to ride in this direction
to avoid falling, thus idling and backwards riding come in handy.
Sincerely,
Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>
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— rebecca <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote:
> i really want to get a giraffe, but my parents won’t let me. (it took me
> abt 2 yrs to convince them to let me buy my first uni) please help me
> come up w rebuttals for their arguments:
>
> 1) you already have a unicycle
>
> 2) how would you get on it?
>
> 3) it’s too expensive (how much would it cost?)
>
> 4) we won’t have room to keep it
>
> 5) you won’t be able to take it to college next year
>
> 6) you’ll look like a goon
>
> and they want to know WHY i want it. how am i supposed to answer that?!?
> i just DO!
>
>
>
>
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Hey,
To get my unicycle, I used the excuse that I needed it for Sr project. I
got an A. I used that for all spring and summer. Then I went to college,m
where I have 1/2 of a 10’ x 12’ room and started to get some designs on
getting other unicycles. One is in the mail now. I bid on a coker and some
(lucky) punk out bid me at 7 seconds left. (jerk) (actually its ok, i
wouldnt have gone higher than 220.00 anyways. So im just going to buy it
form unicycle.com anyways.
So to summerize: I fit more stuff in my colelge dorm room than I could
have ever imagined. You always need more unicycles (infact, i think im
ganna get a coker and a 6 foot girrafe (savage) now that ive read this
thread). My unicycle is a chick magnet. Anything that can turn ME into a
chick magnet will not make anyone look like a goon. When your in college,
you can buy whatever you want (even if your not 18) , as long as you get
your own job and a czecking account. My parents would have killed me if
they knew I spent
100.00 on unicycle PARTS.
Buy a unicycle. As many as you can.
later.
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Nick Cegelka
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http://www.uni-psycho.cityslide.com
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