Newbie Question

[Unizen]

@ThisGuyIKnow

I still stand by the notion that it only takes 5 hours of good practice. But I do mean GOOD practice, not just messing around with the unicycle. It took me about 3 years but in the first two I never really made the effort I needed to. I then spent way too many hours in my basement riding the same 20 feet, when I should have just gone outside where I could ride 50 meters or a half mile.

Once you can ride 50 meters though you can ride a half mile, you may just have a UPD every 50 meters or so, or everytime the sidewalk is a little uneven.

Riding 1/2 mile in one go will take a little more time. Maybe 20 hours or so of good practice. Depending on how much time you can dedicate this could take 3 years or 3 days, that’s up to you.

Excellent point!!!
Ive been trying to learn for a little over 2 weeks.
I can sucessfully ride 30 feet nearly every time.
30 feet is the EXACT distance from my curb to the
curb across the street. Now Ive developed a plateau
and I have to break that habbit! Get outside riding as
far as you can as soon as you can! Practicing distance
gives you distance. Practicing 20 feet gives you 20 feet.
See ya!

[Unitik908]

5 days to reach level one

Chase

[system]

Re: Newbie Question

Second day, and I can do one revolution, and idle for about 4 seconds.

I am coming, Mum!

Simon

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> Three years.
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> But don’t worry, you have several advantages over my situation.
>
> 1. I had access to nothing to read to help me learn (though I later
> found out my local library had Jack Wiley’s “The Unicycle Book”).
> 2. My unicycle was a Troxel, total P.O.S. Though I learned to ride it
> in about six weeks, after giving up many times, when I could finally
> start going over several revolutions, the unicycle gave up. Due to its
> inferior design and tricycle technology, it could not cope with
> actually being ridden by someone of my below-average eighth grade
> weight.
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> I didn’t cross the half-mile milestone until a neighbor bought himself
> a Schwinn Giraffe and I learned on that.
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[tyler_cochrane]

I’ve had my unicycle for about a month and can ride fairly well, can turn, hop a bit, and freemount.
It was funny when I bought my unicycle. My mom dropped me off at the store, I said that I’d just quickly learn to ride and then pedal back home with it. It’s not quite that easy. I ended up walking my unicycle home that day.

[theotherguy]

I got my unicycle about a year ago (in august) and it took me about an hour a day for a week to be able to ride consistantly. then it took 10 minutes to learn how to freemount and be able to do it. I didn’t get jumping for a while until about a month later when i finally tried it. now i can go on my uni until i get tired (which is a few miles on a 20") and i can just barely even jump up 3 pallette crate thingys (about 1’6" ?? something like that)