Some questions from a new guy

General
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Hi all.

I’m thinking of buying a unicycle and I have a few questions.

First, what should a beginner like myself look for in a unicycle? Are there
different tire sizes and what would be best? Are there some brands I should look
for or avoid? How much can I expect to spend? Where can I learn to ride it, can
I teach myself? Can you think of anything else I should know?

Many thanks!!

Chris Hansen chris@bitstream.net

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Re: Some questions from a new guy

Avoid the cheap Taiwanese models. They can be recognized by two bolts at the
base of each fork and a very uncomfortable saddle that is the same at the front
and back. The made in Taiwan sticker is also a dead giveaway.

I was using these in for training kids on and broke a lot of them.

Wayne van Wijk wvanwijk@gil.com.au

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can
picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

-----Original Message----- From: aku-aku <chris@bitstream.net> Newsgroups:
rec.sport.unicycling To: UNICYCLING@winternet.com <UNICYCLING@winternet.com>
Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 10:30 PM Subject: Some questions from a new guy

>Hi all.
>
>I’m thinking of buying a unicycle and I have a few questions.
>
>First, what should a beginner like myself look for in a unicycle? Are there
>different tire sizes and what would be best? Are there some brands I should
>look for or avoid? How much can I expect to spend? Where can I learn to ride
>it, can I teach myself? Can you think of anything else I should know?
>
>Many thanks!!
>
>Chris Hansen chris@bitstream.net

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Re: Some questions from a new guy

>First, what should a beginner like myself look for in a unicycle? Are there
>different tire sizes and what would be best? Are there some brands I should
>look for or avoid? How much can I expect to spend? Where can I learn to ride
>it, can I teach myself? Can you think of anything else I should know?

I started riding recently myself, and I found one piece of advice to be very
wise. Someone in this forum recommended that I buy a cheap uni because it was
going to get banged up while I was learning. Now that I’ve been riding for three
or four months, I can look at it and really see how scratched up it has gotten.

Dan Fingerman daniel.fingerman@nospam.yale.edu Remove ‘nospam’ from my address
if you want to email me.