so the olympics are almost here in vancouver and the streets are PACKED with people and buskers. There was a guy putting on a show (downtown on granville st if youre familiar with vancouver) and he had a unicycle. He was letting people try it as a part of his show…now i should mention i was with kind of on a coffee date hahaha. So the guy picked me and i pretended like i had no idea how to even ride the thing. I started by trying it with the seat backwards, then i kept letting it kick back and falling forward, i pretty much hammed it up…
so i asked the guy " have any tips? i want to try it once more." he goes " oh just try and lean forward and put all of your weight on the seat", i went " ah, ok that makes sense".
so i get into mounting position, mount up really sketchy start to ride really wobbly around the crowd of people… then crank flip, 360, big spin, and a 1 foot coast back towards him and handed the uni back.
when i handed it back i said " ohhh…you’re right, leaning forward helped a lot"
i wish i could of had a picture of the guys face…priceless.
just thought i would share that story, and if anyones around in vancouver for the olympics the weather has been great here. Shoot me an email and we’ll ride some muni!
im taking every “awesome” i see and converting it to a high five.
well the uni was a 20", now as for the make i think its Norco. It looked like on of those ones you always see randomly in bike shops. I think it said “twenty” down the side in some sort of ghetto font.
Dude, this is great. It kinda reminds me of this one time when Pat asked a beginner for tips on 1 spins and then busted a 5 right in his face, but this is more awesome
Haha! I always wanted to do that, but all the buskers here are riding giraffe. There was a guy once who had like a 10ft giraffe! If I see a busker next summer I’ll do the same thing:)
I’ve always wanted to do that if the opportunity came up!
Tickets are so expensive though 
