Hello! I am a newbie to unicycling. My dad encouraged me to try it since he said he should have someone to share the skill with. Well, I’ve fallen a few times and still manage to get up. Hope I will be inspired by you guys.
I’m new too! I’ve practiced three sessions in three days so far… we’ll see how long this continues. I don’t even know what kind of unicycle I have, I just know I eventually want to be able to cruise and hop around on it… Stalking this forum is definitely inspiring…
How are you getting on Cloudz? you’ll have had a few more sessions under your belt by now. Falling any less? Good luck on your journey and have fun.
Imontford…how’s it going…keep getting up and you’ll be overtaking your dad in no time.
Hello fellow members my name is Lucas George i m from Australia and a new member of this interesting community,I hope all members having great time here…
Seven practices now! Falling less! But still very much attached to my wall… I have a nice fence line about 150 meters long that I go up and down. Tried to just let go and go for it, but never got more than two revolutions in before I tipped over. So I’m just cruising along the fence. That is getting easier.
Today one of my unicycle arms fell off. It was fine yesterday, noticed today after a bit it felt a bit loose. Twenty feet later it was on the ground. On closer inspection, the arm had an “R” printed on it. But it was on the left side. I love cheap stuff… Will try to get it switched/fixed this weekend. The threads on the bike portion look fine, not scratched or stripped at all.
There is an unthreading problem when you’ve got the cranks on backward, but it isn’t the problem you’ve found. It is that the pedals, themselves, unscrew themselves from the cranks. if you have experienced that problem, that is why. The problem that you report came from not having the cranks tight enough on the axle. They have probably been really creaky for awhile, and the one that hasn’t fallen off yet might have a lot of play in it. Or it could still be tight. You’ll probably find the missing nut under the dust cap of the crank that fell off.
You need to grease the taper and when you put the crank back on, you need to tighten it enough so that it doesn’t creak (or otherwise have play in it) when you ride. For me, this has been an iterative process (tightening periodically when it starts creaking), and I think I’m now at the point where I can lock the nut with some blue loctite. If you’re lucky, maybe you haven’t damaged your cranks riding with them loose like that.
Ah internet, you have so much to teach me… It definitely wasn’t wobbly loose for a while, because I felt that right away. But it could have been creaky. I wouldn’t have known the difference between that and a healthy crank. Hopefully now I do?
Got the cranks switched sides and put back on at a bike shop. The guy was quite amazed that I had a unicycle, he had never touched one before… Luckily I googled enough last night that I figured out how to do it. I have a friend with a socket set, but he didn’t have the crank puller to take the other one off… Had conflicting internet advice on whether to bang it off or use the tool so I figured I would take it in and use the tool.
Another 35 minute practice afterwards. I’m starting to feel every once in a while for one foot, or five feet, that “happy” feeling. Everything is balanced, I’m sitting deeply in the seat, but I feel light and balanced and my feet are happy and light on the peddles. Then I’m back to wobbly new person again. That feeling isn’t often enough yet to exactly know what the heck I’m doing to get there, more of a fleeting “I’m doing something right!”… But I know what I’m aiming towards feeling!
You can do it other newbies!!!