When I got back into unicycling a few months ago, after 25+ years off, I bought a KH20 Flatland (110mm cranks, smoother, thinner lighter tire than a trials) , because I wanted a high quality uni to learn/get better at mostly free-style-like tricks, like walking the wheel, riding one-footed, juggling etc. At 39, I never thought I would get into trials/street-style riding.
Well I got the uni and I loved it but shortly became obsessed with learning trials/street style skills. So I bought a 19" KH trials wheel and put it on my KH20 longneck frame. I’ve yet to put the flatland wheel back on. For what I want to do on a ~20" uni, the fatter tire with longer cranks is much more stable.
My question is do you think I should try to sell the flatland wheel? I could use the money, but I also want to continue learning skills like walking the wheel, riding forward one-footed etc. Are those skills going to be any easier on the thinner less knobby tire with shorter cranks?
So far I find almost everything easier on the trials tire/longer cranks apart from riding forward for more than a few mins, which I don’t use my KH20 for anyway. For walking the wheel and one footed riding, I don’t feel I can do either well enough on either wheel to judge which wheel would be better. If I wanted to learn some flatland tricks, it seems most flatlanders use trials wheels anyway…