Mounting without injury

General
1

Hey, what does a guy do on mounting the unicycle? I am working on doing a
simple mount on my unicycle. I have placed a piece of wood behind the
wheel and placed the lower crank at 6 o’clock. When I get up over the
unicycle and come down on the seat, I can smash the “family jewels”. Hot
days are the worst. Anyone got any tricks to avoid this? Any techniques or
clothing. Come on, you guys gotta have had the same problem.

Rod Wylie

2

I try to avoid smashing down on the seat like a jackhammer. Try putting
the unicycle in back of you. Slide it towards your front, while still
sitting on the seat, but standing on the ground. Mount when you’re
still sitting on the unicycle, ie, when you go from the ground to the
air your rear has changed positions. This is about as helpful as I can
be before five.

Cheers, Graham W. Boyes

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I woke up this morning and felt like a two-year-old. But there wasn’t one
around so I went back to sleep.

“Rswylie” <rswylie@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010627072651.28851.00000804@ng-cn1.aol.com…
> Hey, what does a guy do on mounting the unicycle? I am working on doing
> a simple mount on my unicycle. I have placed a piece of wood behind the
wheel
> and placed the lower crank at 6 o’clock. When I get up over the unicycle
and
> come down on the seat, I can smash the “family jewels”. Hot days are the
worst.
> Anyone got any tricks to avoid this? Any techniques or clothing.
> Come on,
you
> guys gotta have had the same problem.
>
> Rod Wylie

3

My recommendations first involve the mounting technique before I’ll get
into any sort of comfort issues.

You do not want to start at 6:00 – that is the single hardest pedal
position to get out of. Instead, go formore like 4:00. (The “down” pedal
should be close to you, and not away from you.) As you get on, you place
your weight on the 4:00 pedal (I guess that’s 7:00 if your left foot is
down), the wheel rolls towards, and finally under you. Keep pulling back
with the up pedal until the down pedal which was at 4:00 is now at 6:00,
and then snap forwards, and ride forwards.

I highly recomment not putting any sort of barrier near you on the ground.
Doing so might make mounting easier, but it will not make learning to
freemount eaiser. I suggest practicing the above on as flat ground as
possible, while holding onto a wall or lamp post, or something for
stability (if you’re good at riding forwards already, spend some time
trying without holding onto anything)

As for getting things situated on the seat, I sort of slide the unicycle
seat from behind to forwards before I even start getting on… this
ensures I’m not sitting on anything I don’t want to be sitting on. Get
yourself as situated on the seat as possible before actually mounting –
mounting should involve putting weight on the seat, but you can already be
making contact with the seat (that way, you know exactly where your weight
will be applied).

Hope that helps, Jeff Lutkus

— rswylie@aol.com (Rswylie)
> wrote: Hey, what does a guy do on mounting the unicycle? I am working on
> doing a simple mount on my unicycle. I have placed a piece of wood
> behind the wheel and placed the lower crank at 6 o’clock. When I get up
> over the unicycle and come down on the seat, I can smash the "family
> jewels". Hot days are the worst. Anyone got any tricks to avoid this?
> Any techniques or clothing. Come on, you guys gotta have had the same
> problem.
>
>Rod Wylie

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