dude, im liking your style. your hardly riding yet and you’re already thinking of insane shit. a lot of it sounds like skateboard trick equivilents. however a lot of it sounds rediculously hard and i cant really imagine most of it happening. ive thought of the seat post grind before but i cant imagine it happening for real.
keep up the great ideas tho, if anyone ever does land one of those ideas then i will be in awe.
well minus the backflip part, i do. theres a photo of it on my facebook. its just a stall on a vertical wall
dont forget penis slides. sure they might not be a uni part but it is still an entertaining grind to see… but not to do
Well thanks dude! My only experience is xc mountain biking and skating, so I guess that rubs off onto my ideas. It is my personal mission to grind a seatpost one way or another, so wish me luck, lol. If I can pull one trick that’s never been done before, I will be one proud lad
It seems like the geometry of the front flip is easier than the back flip on a unicycle, but a back flip should be possible, and if a back flip is possible, the wall flip is possible.
Of course, the first challenge is developing hops over 1 meter, which is probably about the minimum you need to be able to do flips.
1) You actually think that is impressive??? 2) Why would you say something like that??? If riverman wants to unicycle, then riverman should unicycle. 3) How do you know that???
see the hop he did before the second flip? that guy is like a grasshopper, i love it! it blows my mind how the guy can get so much air from a bounce, I am having a really hard time getting my nimbus trials more than a foot off the ground. I do most of my riding on a 10 year old norco with a skinny little 20" tyre that hardly weighs anything, so when I try to hop on my nimbus, it feels like I am chained to the ground. it may have something to do with the fact that I have my tyre pumped really hard, so it doesn’t give me much spring, I’m not sure though.
Funny that people say riding with a softer tire is harder. I live up in the mountains, so I had a lot of uneven ground to learn on, so when I softened my tire it was easier
Riding with a softer tire creates higher rolling resistance, but on bumpy terrain it can reduce the amount of balance correcting you have to do. Correcting balance is expensive.
As a general rule, it’s easier to hop with less air in the tire, because the compression and return of energy take longer, so the energy is easier to translate into upward momentum. But in terms of the physics of it, a tire with more air bounces higher, so for the best hops, you should have the tire pressure as high as you can put it while still being able to use the momentum.
tire pressure is a very personal preference… some people like high and others like low. There is no wrong pressure
but for hops… those just take practice. Letting the tire bounce you up and down isnt gonna do much for you. You just have to practice and after a while itll click for you and then you will build muscles and next thing you know you cant stay on the ground anymore. Just keep at it and have fun
I tried it today and the first time I got into the stall but when I went to get back up I felt like my frame might snap… Also the frame got all scratched where I did it, I don’t think I’ll be trying that anymore.
It isn’t a grind yet. Like I said, the stall doesn’t seem very difficult at all, but if anyone can manage a decently sized grind like that I’ll give them huge props. Also, a trick in or out of the stall/grind, stall/grind on a higher rail, or if you can make the stall look good, I’ll be impressed.
I’d call that a seat post balance, or seat post see-saw. Like Julia said, that wasn’t a grind. But it’s easy enough to see how that could lead to one.
And of course it will tear up the unicycle. But the people who pioneer these tricks are not likely to be engineers. They will learn by doing, and also figure out what’s needed to make the unicycle last longer for their version of the trick. The “problem,” if any, will be self-correcting.
well if you could fix a sort of flat plate that snaps on and distributes the weight of the grind more evenly through the frame… the flat plate will assist in grinding, and you’d be less likely to break your uni.
Holy smokes thats a stunning trick! 
Like I said, the stall doesn’t seem very difficult at all, but if anyone can manage a decently sized grind like that I’ll give them huge props. Also, a trick in or out of the stall/grind, stall/grind on a higher rail, or if you can make the stall look good, I’ll be impressed.