I’m giving myself a thumbs down on that. If I do it, I will need to be much more fluent with the rolling mount. I did see a video of a little Dutch gal using a rollback mount of a 36er, but I’d really need to improve my idling abilities if I was to do that…
I am happy with my 24 and 27.5" mounting though, and even with success on slight uphills.
Also I seem to have lost my ability to hop right foot back on my KH24. Maybe its me getting better with left foot back on the 27.5 and the 29er that has screwed up my right foot back hopping… i’ll go back to the trials uni and practice the heck out of it on there.
I think a rolling mount is really the best option. Even if you can do other mounts the rolling mount is the easiest option when you’re tired in the middle of a long ride.
A rollback mount also works well, but only on flat smooth ground. The one I have problems with on a 36er is the static mount. It’s just too much of a leap to get up on top of that big wheel.
A rollback mount is very hard to do on a 36" and I find you really need long 150mm+ cranks to be able to pull one off. Rolling is by far the easiest mount but I typically use a static mount for mine with almost 100% success unless I’m tired or it’s very steep.
The main concern is developing the muscle strength required to mount and ride it. So daily practice for months is a must.
I was chatting with a cyclist who rode alongside me for a while this morning and just as he left he said “Maybe if you’re a good boy you’ll get the other wheel for Christmas”. I thought that was a great comment and one of the best I’ve had in a while.
Almost every unicyclist would like to get another wheel (as you never can enough unicyles).
But I guess the comment was meant to mean something different.
Yes unicycle love but it’s enough I think for me. If Eleven unis, it’s hard to find the best and two of them are awarded. I hope the people have fun with it.
Walking my 36" up a local road, I had a pickup driver slow down and ask if I was ok. I said I was fine - but not that good and still learning. He said that I picked a hard hill to start on, and we went good naturedly back and forth a bit, until he realized, “oh, you only have one wheel!”
While riding, I heard a sudden exclamation of “unicycle!” from behind me and then a school bus of elementary aged kids passed by. Lots of shouts from the bus of “you’re awesome”, to which I returned in kind. I also got a thumbs up from the bus driver.
I’ve been riding almost every weekend in the neighborhood, but still get a lot of surprised smiles and waves. However, during a lunchtime walk, a car slowed down and the driver express concern that I had been out a bit past dark the last time the saw me. So, I think my reputation has gone up from local oddity status. Someone actually cares
Last weekend I went riding in the forest which I hadn’t done in nearly a year. There were 5 people who asked me if I had lost the other half of my bike. How cliché can they be. One even dared to ask if I work in a circus. I told him unicycling is a sport.
Maybe its me getting better with left foot back on the 27.5 and the 29er that has screwed up my right foot back hopping… i’ll go back to the trials uni and practice the heck out of it on there.
