Thank for the inspiration!
Hi all!
This is my first post and I just want to start by saying thank you to all of you who posted so many great descriptions and videos and stories about learning how to unicycle.
I’ve read the entire 24 pages of entries now over the past 3-4 days and it’s really given me a lot of useful information and inspiration for what I am soon to experience myself.
I also found the journal of dudewithasock extremely informative (https://unicyclist.com//t/journal-of-a-new-unicycler/75494/1) and that is so far the only thread I have read back-to-back in addition to this one.
My new uni was ordered almost a week ago and I just can’t wait to get my hands on it 
I hope to be able to get some video of myself falling and flailing and doing the first few rides and mounts, so I can share it with you here.
And I look forward to reading more of your eloquent posts of course!
Now for some of my thoughts before even touching the new uni:
-
I went for a Coker/36er as my very first uni. Everything I’ve seen and read online tells me this is insanity, but I’ve been given some hope and reassurance in the later posts here in this thread where you people say the 20" (which is recommended for learning) actually in some ways is more difficult to handle than a larger wheel with more inertia. Also that you say you quickly “outgrow” such a small wheel and feel more comfy on 24" or 29" unis makes me feel good about my choice.
-
However, I noticed that in more than 300 posts nobody mentioned a 36" uni even once…
-
I have seen a lot of uni videos on YouTube and I found uni_geezers videos very entertaining (in addition to your vids of course) and instructive on using a 36er. So I can’t wait to get going, and I will be sure to wear all kinds of protective gear… The online shop (unicycle.uk.com) where I ordered my new Nightrider were out of gloves, so I will need to get those at my LBS or sports shop. I did order wrist guards (in a set with knee and elbow pads) so I guess I just need some gel-padded gloves with that (will try to go for skater or trials gloves if I can find them - no regular sports shops would have any unicycling gear here in Norway, at least I can’t imagine that - perhaps in the future).
-
It would be really great to have a unicycling organisation here in Norway. So far I haven’t found one (that doesn’t mean there isn’t one) but there is a big national organisation for cyclists that could perhaps have (or make) a subgroup for unicyclists. Also, there’s a newly started forum for unicyclists (a bit like this one, but minuscule) where I plan to write more about my learning (since there’s tons of stuff in English online, but not so much in Norwegian).
All right, that’s (more than) enough for a first post. Thanks again for being who you are and sharing it with the world, so new people like me can get introduced to the sport/lifestyle of unicycling