# skate bike (that unicycle with a training wheel thing) test ride
**URL:** https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488
**Category:** Unicycles and Equipment
**Created:** [October 11, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488 "2003-10-11T17:52:32Z")
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### Author:  [@GILD](https://unicyclist.com/u/GILD)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/21 "2005-12-01T00:20:58Z")
> [@jagur](#):
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> Tricycles
Xtreem Tricycles.
I think you may just have hit on a new marketing angle for those machines.
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### Author:  [@Victory](https://unicyclist.com/u/Victory)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/22 "2005-12-01T04:19:50Z")
For you guys that have one of the small ones would you reccomend it for a child to learn on before a real uni?
I had seen them on ebay and thought because it was a tricycle it would be more stable it would be better to learn one of these before a uni. Or would it just make learning a uni harder?
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### Author:  [@Tigger](https://unicyclist.com/u/Tigger)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/23 "2005-12-01T08:13:10Z")
Those things are cool, extreme trikes they are if people are jumping curbs and grinding. I’d like to see some vid.😃
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### Author:  [@johnfoss](https://unicyclist.com/u/johnfoss)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 10:12am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/24 "2005-12-01T10:12:30Z")
> [@Victory](#):
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> I had seen them on ebay and thought because it was a tricycle it would be more stable it would be better to learn one of these before a uni. Or would it just make learning a uni harder?
I don’t know if there’s any value-add to riding a skatebike before taking on a unicycle. Despite similar shapes, they are not similar things to ride. On the other hand I don’t have a lot of experience teaching basic riding (bike or unicycle) to little ones. It might be useful, but I am doubtful. Start with a bike (training wheels or no), then go to the unicycle.
A better training device would be a dicycle, which is a unicycle with two wheels next to each other. Extra stability while still riding like a unicycle. Just not exactly on the market…
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### Author:  [@Naomi](https://unicyclist.com/u/Naomi)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 12:37pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/25 "2005-12-01T12:37:27Z")
> [@johnfoss](#):
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> A better training device would be a dicycle, which is a unicycle with two wheels next to each other. Extra stability while still riding like a unicycle. Just not exactly on the market…
I wonder if a dicycle with seat is anything at all like an easier more stable unicycle? Zyllan found his ultimate dicycle to be more of a handful than a bog standard ultimate wheel: see these
> **[Zyllan tries a dicycle](https://www.richardloxley.com/photos/unimeet1202/slides/Img_0032.html)**
and
> **[Img\_0033](https://www.richardloxley.com/photos/unimeet1202/slides/Img_0033.html)**
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### Author:  [@al\_lieffring](https://unicyclist.com/u/al_lieffring)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/26 "2005-12-01T18:49:00Z")
> [@yoopers](#):
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> I’m told that there was a Monkeys album once upon a time, or maybe just a scene (I’m not sure) that depicted the foursome riding this very Uniskate vehicle.
A couple of years ago I did some searching for the Monkees unicycles that I had remembered seeing on the TV show (I would have been 8 years old back then).
About all that I found was this pic of Mickey Dolens on one of them.
Al
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### Author:  [@al\_lieffring](https://unicyclist.com/u/al_lieffring)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/27 "2005-12-01T19:00:01Z")
Or was that monkies on unicycles, long time ago I’m not sure any more.
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### Author:  [@Michea](https://unicyclist.com/u/Michea)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/28 "2005-12-01T20:04:32Z")
I rode one of the yellow front trucks-type ones when I was teaching at the Asheville Circus school, and I liked it a lot. I liked the coasting. It’s really just not a unicycle though, it a whole different thing. Turning wasn’t as sharp, but I got the hang of that too, and I could turn like I can on a skateboard, except with a skateboard I fall more. Stupid skateboards.
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### Author:  [@GILD](https://unicyclist.com/u/GILD)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/29 "2005-12-01T23:54:39Z")
> [@Victory](#):
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> For you guys that have one of the small ones would you reccomend it for a child to learn on before a real uni?
It is a different beast entirely. The Skate-Bike I pictured has a back-pedal braking sytem. You can also just sit on it, something you can’t do with a uni. The dynamics are all different.
I still can’t ride the thing.
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### Author:  [@system](https://unicyclist.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/skate-bike-that-unicycle-with-a-training-wheel-thing-test-ride/59488/30 "2005-12-02T00:46:03Z")
Re: skate bike (that unicycle with a training wheel thing) test ride
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:37:27 -0600, Naomi wrote:
\>I wonder if a dicycle with seat is anything at all like an easier more
\>stable unicycle? Zyllan found his ultimate dicycle to be more of a
\>handful than a bog standard ultimate wheel: see these
\>
\>
\>[Zyllan tries a dicycle](http://tinyurl.com/ctald)
\>and
\>[Img\_0033](http://tinyurl.com/8fe88)
But John was probably thinking of the two wheels being farther apart,
providing significant lateral stability. Like the third picture on
[Multi Wheeled Unicycles](http://www.unicycling.com/garage/multi.htm) . Be it that in that one
the two wheels rotate independently, which would certainly not be
suitable for a learner.
Back to the topic, I’ve ridden a skatebike occasionally. The way you
ride them is completely different from a unicycle, so I doubt it would
be a good primer for unicycling. Except for someone who can’t ride a
regular bike. For them, learning to ride a skatebike might actually be
slightly better than a bike because riding posture is similar.
The thing should be called skatetrike.
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