Nuther uni newbie out of the closet

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Keith Williamson wrote:
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Then I found
> Tammy and Tanya Marsh’s web site. I really owe them a huge thanks for their
> newbie advice. Specifically, the tennis court idea!

What?! WHERE??? I haven’t found that site yet. Please give me the URL!

Are you still in Sacramento?

Vicki

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Hi folks!

I too have been bitten by the uni bug. Dunno if it’s a mid-life crisis thing but
I’ve pined for one since my two-wheeled bike touring days in Sacramento. Well
three months ago I did some web surfing and found the Uni web ring. That got me
really psyched so I went out and got a 20" Cycle Design. For the first month, my
wife, teenage niece and I would take turns bumping and crashing down a long
hallway in my house (dinging up the wallpaper pretty well) and laughing
hysterically. Then I found Tammy and Tanya Marsh’s web site. I really owe them a
huge thanks for their newbie advice. Specifically, the tennis court idea!

For the second month, my two boys and I would go over to the nearby elementary
school where they could practice their new sans-training wheel bike skills and I
could bump and crawl along the inside of the tennis court’s chain link fence.
Within a few sessions I was going 10 to 20 feet. A few sessions after that I
could go the length of the four courts (200’ or so). Still couldn’t direct WHERE
I was going though. Then I started working on control and riding slower. That
finally resulted in a jerky twisting kind of turn. I was so jazzed!! Once I
could turn I was ready to escape the tennis court and start practicing on my
somewhat more confined (but more convenient) driveway.

This month I have greatly improved my slow riding and turning skills and started
working on the basic free mount. I now can free mount after between 1 and 5
attempts and am feeling much more confident in general. I was stuck in LA all
last week at a sales conference and kept finding myself daydreaming about
getting the mount down and wishing I had the uni with me!

Next challenge…IDLING!!

Thanks to all for the info I have gleaned lurking in your newgroup and thanks
most of all to Tammy and Tanya!

-Keith

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Re: Nuther uni newbie out of the closet

Hi Vickie!

Check out http://members.tripod.com/~MarshT/index.html

No, I live in Phoenix these days (but really miss the American River
Bike Trail).

-Keith

cookie wrote:

> Keith Williamson wrote:
> >
>
> Then I found
> > Tammy and Tanya Marsh’s web site. I really owe them a huge thanks for their
> > newbie advice. Specifically, the tennis court idea!
>
> What?! WHERE??? I haven’t found that site yet. Please give me the URL!
>
> Are you still in Sacramento?
>
> Vicki

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Re: Nuther uni newbie out of the closet

Keith Williamson wrote:

> No, I live in Phoenix these days (but really miss the American River
> Bike Trail).

Cool! Let me know the next time you have to come to LA. It would be great to
talk with another cyclist! (And maybe by then, I’ll have my MUni, and will let
you borrow it to ease your withdrawal symptoms from the sport…well, for a
small fee, of course.) :wink:

Vicki email: cookie@2cowherd.net