The BC wheel will go even faster downhill than the geared.
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Hope, the gym does. But I wouldnât hold my breath. Changing your eating habits is prolly the most promising way.
Hey, I never said it was the easiest! 
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The gym will make it faster and at home I donât do belly training. Im just too lazy
You donât. You just buy it.
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Exactly. If we focused on rationality, would we be riding unicycles at all?
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Agreed, buying unicycles arenât things to rationalize buying, as long as the price is reasonable. If you are still looking for a distance uni, I recommend a Mad4One 29". It works very well for me, at around 5â, and it is far, far cheaper than the Nightfox, including shipping. (Shipping for me was over $80). I considered getting the Nightfox at first, but it was way too expensive.
Iâm pretty sure Iâm going through with the purchase. This time, there was about $70 for shipping. The first time I bought a unicycle from unicycle.com, there was no shipping and I remember there being some sort of reward system. If there is a reward system, how do I use the points from a previous purchase?
My son, wife, and I have been riding unicycles for just under four years, and our storage room is now full of unicycles. We have quite a collection, including three 12-inch unicycles, one 16-inch, four 20-inch, two 19-inch, two 24-inch, one 27.5-inch, and one 36-inch. We also have several sizes of ultimate wheels: 10 inches, 20 inches, 24 inches, and 28 inches.
I found myself always thinking about buying a new unicycle. Previously, I was considering a geared 29-inch unicycle, but after borrowing one from a friend, I discovered that the 36-inch unicycle is more comfortable, smoother, and more enjoyable to ride. However, my current heavy, brakeless 36-inch unicycle doesnât feel optimal for cross-country riding or light muni. Now, Iâm seriously thinking about purchasing another 36-inch unicycle, this time with a disc brake, carbon rim, and a lightweight tire. However, I want to make sure itâs worth it since I havenât tried riding one like that yet. I need to rationalize this purchase because a 36-inch unicycle takes up a lot of space, and I think Iâll still want to keep my old one since it rides nicely on flat asphalt.
A thought.
Find a local rider.
Meet.
Borrow.
Decide.
Iâm âunicycle insaneâ like most of us.
Never tried, sat, or even touched a 20", 24" unicycle before.
Bought it anyways.
However, a 36" big wheel.
Any 36" owners who have never ever fallen?
Beginners need to know.
âŠslam
+1 for what @MUCFreerider says. If you do a variety of different activities on unicycles, itâs totally reasonable to have multiple unicycles that offer different possibilities.
But more is not always better, no matter how many people (jokingly) say n+1 is ideal. More money spent, more space taken up, more maintenance, more decisions, more regrets of having chosen the âwrongâ unicycle for a given ride. (I particularly dislike the last one.)
Never say never, but I donât think anyone should ever assume to never fall of any given unicycle.
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but if one day youâve taken the wrong unicycle for a trip, then you can just grab the right one the day after. At least you will already have the right unicycle for the job. I just like the different feelings they come with. My unicycles for sure are more professional than I am. Many peeps on the forum are better riders than me, even if I might have more unicycles. There is no uni among my collection that I think of selling, even ones I havenât used for more than a year, like the freewheel uni. I might in the future give it another try, though I will get older and be 50+ next year.
As for UPDâs. If you donât UPD, youâre not taking unicycling seriously enough 
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Yes. Much worse to know you donât even own the right unicycle.
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My most painful was due to locking the brake on a steep downhill. It is a hell of a long way down to the road in front of the uni from the seat height of a 36. My heel hurt for weeks.
Iâve had to step off my 36 while doing 25 kph. It is important to be comfortable doing this on a big wheel but one does not begin learning to fall on a big wheel. I always say the emergency dismount is the first and most important uni skill to learn.
But 25 kph? Meh.
I often think of MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales who had to just get off his bike when the front brake caliper exploded at over 200 kph.
But even that pales into insignificance compared to this one. I was at Philip Island when Johann Zarco went down at 300 kph.
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My perspective is that every Uni Iâve bought has given me new reason to get out and keep exercising. Some of them have been expensive, some of them cheap. But the goal for all of them is âget me out the doorâ.
When one stops doing that, I sell it.
But Iâll 100% echo what Slam said. If youâve got a local rider or group you can pair up with, trying out other unis helps you understand what you really need/want. Without that youâre sort of stuck with throwing money at new unis based on guesses. Which isnât terrible, but the other way is more economical (in that you buy what you really want⊠but you might wind up wanting more than you did beforehand, so not necesarily âcheaperââŠ)
And @slamdance: my favorite fall off of a 36 was at the end of a particularly strenuous ride, I realized my legs were mostly jelly and I wasnât sure Iâd be able to stand at dismount. So I didnât - I was wearing KH leg armor, and I just fell forward and let them do their job. Felt just like riding a half pipe in high school a million years ago 
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But then Iâm in a different mood for different tricks, or the weather has changed and the grip is different. It just doesnât work for me.
For example I have now merged my 20" freestyle and my 19" flat unicycle into one unicycle with a wide 20" and I much prefer that over having the two, even though they each are a bit âbetterâ at their specialized jobs. I donât want to carry around two and with such overlapping purposes, I find having one that I can really get used to a bigger advantage than having the specialized ones that take getting used to every time.
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And thatâs why we need a multi-geared freewheel-switchable hub. Whoâd like to develop such a project? 
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So for the first paragraph I just give you a 
for nagging.
This I have to agree with. It is one of my problems. Before getting used to a wheel, I feel like riding another that takes 15 mins to freemount. But in the past 2 months Ive been primarily riding the 36 UW and 32 uni. The UW I spend the most time with.
Iâm in a similar situation right now, although in my case a 26â fatty was enough. The heel doesnât hurt constantly, but the pain is recurring. Did you do anything special in order to support the healing process (just donât tell me you stopped unicycling for a while!)? I try to either step off with the other foot (in planned dismounts), but since this kinda sucks I often step off landing on the toes or the ball of the foot rather than the heel to avoid a direct shock.
This was my conclusion when I damaged my knee riding the 28â UW. My knee hurts, but I wont stop riding. Im too addicted. So I just take shorter sessions and ride it every other day. Normal uni with a seat doesnt put so much pressure on the knee, so I can do that longer