I’ve been searching for unicycling videos (youtube, etc.) to find the UPHILL riding - regardless if this is muni, street race or whatever: the only criterion is UPHILL. But I’ve found almost nothing!
So if you know uni videos which contain uphill riding, could you please post the link or info?
Maybe majority of (m)unicyclists prefer downhill - but there are threads in forums with questions about uphill, there is uphill discipline at different kind of competitions (e.g. unicon), there are uphill street races, etc.
So, there is uphill unicycling - but where are the videos about them?
Well I’m planning on entering the “Cycle of the Sun” in MAui next August! It’s 36 miles all uphill with 10,000 feet elevation gain! How’s that for uphill? Aspen Mike has done is, but I don’t know of anyone else. HE had/has a marked advantage for high altitude riding, given that he lives and rides regularly in Aspen, CO! If I do it, and succeed, I may be only the second, and also the oldest to have conquered the volcano! Btw, I will be happy enough to finish, but I will try to at least match ot beat Aspen Mike’s 6 hour time if I can! And there will be a video!
For me is a challenge to improve my uphill riding technique. So watching uphill videos is a pleasure and opportunity to learn something new.
Many areas of the life (and unicycling) could be boring if we treat them superficially. But if we invest enough effort and interest in some activity we will find hidden beauty in it.
Yeah the biggest problem with watching Uphill Uni stuff, is that videocams tend to drastically “flatten” out the actual steepness of any given hill, whether it’s paved or offroad. There’s just no way anyone can really appreciate just how difficult and steep a given grade might be unless you’re actually there in person.
This one particular short clip I made about a year ago comes close to giving the viewer a sense of the steepness, because there’s a mtber in the video, who’s seen pushing his bike up this steep little section: