Xtreem Tricycles.
I think you may just have hit on a new marketing angle for those machines.
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?
Those things are cool, extreme trikes they are if people are jumping curbs and grinding. I’d like to see some vid.
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…
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
and
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
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.
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.
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
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>Zyllan tries a dicycle
>and
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But John was probably thinking of the two wheels being farther apart,
providing significant lateral stability. Like the third picture on
Multi Wheeled Unicycles . 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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