How many are riding street unicycling ?
and someone who got a new trick going on ?
Simon
I ride street, and I’m starting to get bigger handrail grinds and bigger 360’s.
David
i ride street,
I ride street.
I just learned to grind on knee-high ledges last week.
yeah, Crankflip
im starting to now
i can do handrails and 180 6 sets, so im pretty stolked on that, im working on a crank stall up grind. You grind the ledge and while your sliding yo jump up onto the object your grinding and you 260 off.
Another one im working on is a varial grind, probably best done on a ledge. While our sliding u jump a 180 ( you, not the uni) and finish the grind backwards.So far i can do the 180, but i need a longer faster ledge.
p.s. 24" STREET ALL THE WAY BIATCH!
justin
wow, i thought of that same trick, but I dont have enough room to grind that long either so I do it as a stall varial. just crank stall jump off the uni, 180 then jump off backwards.
Im a trials rider but I can grind rails and do street stuff.
Zack
how do you grind? i mean do you just basicaly ride up to a rail jump on to it with your pedal? i know it sounds hard, but im just a level 3 unicycler
by the way im a newbie to this site
do you got a movie of varialgrind? or someone else got a movie of it ?
Simon
Varial grind?
If we’re using skateboarding terms, you’d call it something more like a body-varial grind. In skateboarding, a varial is a shuv-it, where the board spins, but you do not. They/we call it a body varial when your body spins but the board stays stationary. A uni varial grind would be like a unispin grind. I guess it depends on if you are basing tricks upon the established skateboarding terms, or reinventing the wheel.
Squeegy: I just learned to grind ledges, but to do so i roll up alongside a ledge, and while i’m still rolling i jump up onto a crankstall/crankgrab on the ledge and put pressure on my pedal, which makes it grind. Maybe other riders grind ledges on just their pedal, but it seems to work for me on the crank and pedal. Is this correct, guys, or should i be using just the pedal? I’m sure that rails are better suited for just the pedal though, since they’re too skinny for anything else, and it would be too hard to lock-in on the crank. Right?
Double post, sorry
Squeegy: I’m in the middle of level 4, so i’m sure you’ll be able to grind sometime soon. To learn, i first learned to do sidehop pedal/crank grabs to rubber. Then, once i was pretty comfortable with them, i spent a day on rolling crankgrabs, and to jump off the ledge smoothly and roll away. The next day i switched to plastic pedals, found a hard, smooth ledge, and learned to grind. My grinds are really short - only maybe a foot at most, since i can’t find any slick ledges that will let me grind very far - but i can do them almost everytime.
i ride street
i wanna get better at street, because trials seems to incorporate too much hopping. However, I suck at it…
for that matter, I suck at trials too…
Hear hear!
I do street. along with everything else.
i cant grind yet,partly because of lack of stuff to grind on,and lack of ambition.but im gonna get better…
i say like this, the only thing that makes you to a good street rider is when you got a really clean style and do tech trick, doesn’t matter if you go big, just got your own style and you haft to be creative…
Simon
Re: Varial grind?
Whatever you are comfortable with.
Main issues:
Grinding pedal only, you have less resistance in the grind, so you
grind further, smoother. It is a lot harder to balance on your pedal because you have to compensate for the huge weight disproportion. Even with 100% of your weight on the grinding pedal, your uni will want to fall to the non-grinding side because of its weight. This is usually not dramatic for ledge grinds, but for rails you have to lean into it to get any distance (you can get away with 3-4stair grinds without leaning).
Grinding pedal only is great for protecting your wheel. When you hit stuff with your grinding pedal slightly elevated, the side of the object hits the outside of the crank instead of the side of your hub flange/rim. I have seen two Monty rims destroyed by crank grinding.
I find it easier to exit from pedal only.
Grinding pedal and crank, pedal, and bearing housing. This is a lot easier to learn with because it is more stable. Leaning is less necessary because putting weight on the grinding pedal gets more of your weight to the opposite side of the rail than pedal only. With this comes the risk of being locked in (when your wheel turns, and the rail slips between the crank and the wheel). You can also get wheel bite (when your tire rubs against the object and sends you flying) You won’t slide as far with this because there is more resistance to the object.
Yeah, you can crank grind on rails. Crank grinding is a lot harder on wheels.
mike
i ride street.
a trick im working on is a footplant 180 over a flat handrail.
you ride alongside the rail, jump up plant your foot on the rail 180 yourself over the rail and ride away backwards.
sounds like theres a few street riders out there.
street is about going big and tech. you can focus on either but you cant ignore the other.
there will always be your rodney mullens of unicycling. but tony hawk goes big… and tech. and thats what makes skatebording so good to watch. same with unicycling, i think.
speaking of tech has anybody ever hopped into a grind from fakie