Would love to but to be honest I’m too scared, and now that I can freemount the 36er I’m quite happy 
Reading about these 36” unicycles makes me want to have a go on one, I would not want to own one as i would have no use for one but would like to have a ride on one.
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They are very cool and ride so nicely.
If you do get a chance go for it.
How can you not have a use for it! 
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I associate 36” with distance and commuting and them being not very nimble.where I live roads are just too busy to be on one wheel and off road there’s not much chance of distance without encountering roads so for me I find 27.5 muni and hatchet are my main rides with 20” nimbus equinox for backwards, hoping etc. like I said though I would love to have a go on a 36 just to try it.
Agree. 36ers are not for everywhere imo. There is a right hand turn just near my home (btw we ride on the left side of the street in Australia if it matters for context) that I can do easily on any unicycle except a 36er. That turn is an uphill turn that continues uphill after the turn for a full block.
I naturally turn left better than I turn right, and that uphill just makes everything so much harder.
Now, the other thing I am only just getting the hang of is 36er freemounting. Happy to say there is progress, but it has taken a lot of commitment. I’m not tall and I can’t do static freemounting on it, so the best way is a rolling mount, and that takes a lot of practice. Once I nail freemounting it, it will be great. But still, it’s more of a ride for some occassions for me, certainly not everywhere. But I could use my 27.5 muni everywhere. On road, offroad, go to work, twisty single track forest, fire trail.
Its manageable for freemounting.
One thing about a 36er… they make a 29er and 27.5 feel much more like a 24 for riding ease and freemounting!!
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36ers can be very nimble but this largely comes down to the rider’s confidence.
I wouldn’t consider them anything close to nimble, but their rollover ability is awesome. I think their main shortcoming offroad is their height. Where I live there are just too many low hanging branches and dodging them can be difficult on a 27.5. On a 36er too many of them are completely unavoidable. A 36er will just roll right over roots and rocks that you’d have to pay close attention to on a 24" however.
Canoeheadted,
After seeing your mounting video I can see why it works for you to mount with your hand(s) on the handle bar and it does not work for me. Compared to mine your handlebar is very close to your body and mine is extended out quite a distance in front of my body. You have the option of pulling up on the handlebar when needed to push hard on a pedal because your hand hold is nearly inline with your shoulders and the leading pedal. With my handlebar extended in front of me I do not have an option of pulling hard up on the handlebar when needed to push down hard on a pedal.
When I need to put more pressure on a pedal then just my weight, I need to hold on to the saddle handle. That way my pedal, hand hold and shoulder are nearly in a line. I hold the saddle handle when needed to start off quickly on a mount or when riding up steeper hills.
That makes sense.
24 right side one footed idles. Still working on transitioning from a two foot idle to a one foot idle and back but I’ve managed both separately.
Left side is still eluding me and I have trouble on the 24” but I think that’s mostly the crown.
The 24 idles didn’t get filmed.
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today I was doing some practicing and among some of the hops I am working on I decided to try to hop without holding onto the seat and low and behold I did it, so then I started trying to hop and do a little 1/4 spin and I be damn, I could do it. so then I went all out (for me) and would ride to a stop hop left a 1/4 turn back up half a pedal and hop right 1/4 turn. I was amazed that I was doing it. I tried to just hop static but could only get about 4 hops before I would start leaning left or right and have to bail off but Wow was that cool.
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Forward hopped a curb for the first time, then did it ten more times. This was definitely an overcoming the wimp factor achievement, as it actually turned out to be pretty easy, but for some reason it kept giving me visions of not clearing the curb and slamming face first into the ground. It was really just a matter of screwing up the courage to try it repeatedly.
Now i just need to learn how to do it with my non-dominate foot to the rear and figure out how to make corrective pre-hops.
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Installed my new brake (hope tech3 e4) and tire (magic Mary 27.5"x2.6) and got back to riding some slightly harder things. Still sticking to stuff where I’m confident to land feet first on a bail, but all progress is good, I guess.
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I waited for the 605 followers, but it was only you on the unicycle. 
Small brag here, but I had my first ride into the office today.
I would bike to my office year round, including in Canadian winters pre-Covid and it would take me about 50min or so. Wednesday I rode my 29" to the office and made it 1.25 hours which isn’t a huge difference for me.
In the winter I’d spend 30 min cleaning the salt and grime off the bike so I’d didn’t get eaten by corrosion where the intake 2 min to clean so I spend more time riding and less time cleaning.
unicycling was my lockdown project and it’s become my way to get around and I’ve fallen in love with the sport and currently have 4 unis, 3 of which I built myself wheels and all.
I was nervous returning to the office that I might need to go to a boring bike but my new love has prevailed and it’s one of the happiest feelings that the stupid idea to unicycle to work is viable and I can keep it safe under my desk at work.
The idea is to use my 24" in the winter and mix in some transit or ride the 29" the full way of weather is nice.
Here’s to entering my third year of unicycling and a summer of Unipacking trips on my new (to me) 36".
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That is really cool… seeing the unicycle under the desk… 1.5 hours is a fairly decent commute. Could I ask how far it is and how hilly (total ascent if you know or have Strava)
I’ve been doing some test runs to eventually unicycle to work. It is 13km. Elev. gain 150m.
I have tried the KH36 10km out and then back from home towards work with 150 cranks.. Ave speed 10km/hr feeling good cruising. I want to increase speed and get there in an hour.
Then I tried KH29 when I parked car 4km from work and cycled in. Seemed like a lot more effort even on flats and slight inclines.
My unicycling fitness is a major limiting factor, I think.
I’m leaning towards using the KH36 having just worked out rolling mounts.
Oh to dream to have a schlumpf hub one day.
So I can’t climb for shit, it rides with 100s in the summer on my 29" and 90s on my 24". The 29" got 115s and a beefier winter tire this last season too. I custom built this uni to have light everything so it accelerates very easily so climbing on 100s isn’t too bad. Google tells me it’s 55m up and 65m down.
Ride with 125s and get really good at spinning them and you’ll work your way up to the speed. I can currently average 14-15kmh average and 17-22kmh sprinting. There’s a few hills that are a bit slower on the 100s but it’s not so bad. It’s a 16km commute through the city so plenty of red lights and stopping but an hour and 15 minutes isn’t horrible for it.
I have a 36" as well but haven’t much a chance to ride it. It’s a bit too big to bring into the office so I’ve just gotten really good with my 29". It’s also better for multi modal days as my city is picky about what’s allowed on the bus. Some people commute on 36" and it’s all about your risk tolerance and use case. For me my 36" is for Unipacking and long rides in the summer. I’m still getting better at it so maybe commuting one day, but I feel like I’ll always lean for the 29 as it’s agile and very responsive if a car cuts you off or a pedestrian veers in front of you. It happened twice on this ride posted about.
Thanks so much for the info. Yes, I got to build up my confidence and fitness with the 127 cranks on the KH’s.
Not myself this time, but my daughter. I fell down in front of her on an uneven portion of the trail with a very significant sidehill grade and a very steep drop off to the side of us and she just started idling like she was on flat ground and did 3 or 4 idles effortlessly while I got out of the way and then proceeded to pass me.
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