My 1/3 mile was on the 28" nimbus UW. Yeah, I think generally bigger is a bit easier.
The nimbus has a L and an R on the frame near the pedals, so you know how to hold it. If you use colouring I will still get confused. Red for you might mean left, but red for me would mean right. Just an example. I dont think in directional colours.
When you said that about kilometres, I had also been calculating how many metres 1/3 mile would be, but just half a km basically.
How are you with turning the 36â UW and maybe riding figure 8âs.
I think my figure 8 is not finished yet, it is 1/2 mile in size.
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After many attempts I present my 40cm figure 8. Something wrong with it?
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I think you should upload the video where you juggle.
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Btw. did anyone put a freewheel hub on his ultimate wheel or did a freewheel rider drop his seat 
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I canât even ride my UW yet, and you are juggling on yours? Impressive. Very impressive.
how long have you had your UW? Once you put in time to try to ride it, it becomes very addicting with every half rotation more your manage.
As a matter of fact I cannot even juggle. That is much harder than riding UW.
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I have definitely had it long enough to learn. It normally hangs on the wall and watches me decide to ride other unicycles. So, not learning to ride it is my own fault. I need to change that.
I respectfully must chime in.
Juggling is easy if taught correctly and time put in.
A normal unicycle I would say is similar.
BUT,
Ultimate wheel is extreamly physical AND
demanding ultra precise balance with risk of injury ever present!
I say this again having never even seen let alone failed at riding one but is just way easy to imagine the learning curve.
I would venture to say, many rightly assume this and even skilled unicyclists dont even try.
I see sprained ankles, hurt knees let alone the inner calf rubbing reality.
Had I access to a machine shop would fashion "luna wheelâ type calf braces therefore stopping wheel rub and surley adding two more contact points must help.
Also having seen wood core break not so inclined to go that route but lacking any welding tools feeling at an impass, and that may be my excuse for having and not being able to ride.
I can imagine a set of modified paralle bars to learn with or maybe slacklines on either side at the right height.
In my present envirorment I have access to neither.
Anyway I digress
A huge bravo to all those who are strong and dedicate to be able to get even a few revs in!
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I totally agree. Once you get the hang of it, you are able to juggle while walking. So the goal is that UW is as easy as walking for you, at least for some meters. As we all know, we start from the very beginning with every unicycling skill. When we do it daily, like i.e. ride backwards to work, it will become as easy as walking and juggling becomes just a matter of doing it. Same applies to UW and juggling. I was astonished that unlike with a normal unicycle, with a UW you will start right at zero after a very long pause. After that experience I was astonished again to go from 20" to 36" after 34years pause and being able to do it within 4-5 days. I used the 36UW twice to commute 100m from my car to work, which was not an easy task. So, once learned you will re-learn it fast if really wanted and performed with the same effort than when you were younger.
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Now @Setonix has my 36UW. I thought every UW has the same diameter, just named 36" or 28" for marketing reasons. What a big difference to this 28" racing machine in weight, diameter and flappyness. I started like in my video 1 here in the thread just maybe 5 meters after the second try. I assume that every UW wheel diameter has to be learned separately for another 4-5 days, starting at zero.
Do you have his 28UW now? So you think that was faster than the 36UW, as you are calling the 28UW a racing machine? 
Sorry, I didnât want to part with my 28". I believe they are even harder to come by than the smaller wheels nowadays.
I certainly hope to be able to ride the 36" UW well within 5 days. Now I am back home from a trip to DK for a week, my kids expect all my attention. All I think about is trying out the big wheel, but I havenât told them. 
I have to disagree with this. Maybe when you start learning, the chance of getting entangled with the wheel is bigger, or that the wheel rubs your inner legs.
Iâve tried riding with shin guards, but they started spinning around my legs and because they are so close to the wheel, they start acting as a brake.
Nowadays all I need is loose jogging pants, even with every rotation where the wheel hangs against my leg, which gives extra balance, it doesnât chafe at all. The only thing that hurts are the upper leg muscles, because it is so heavy, but I presume I just need to train more.
Now that I can consistently ride 80-100 metres with every try, you sort of feel when there is a certain wiggle that will throw you off. Maybe with a unicycle, you can push forward and correct the wiggle, but not with a UW. When it is over, you need to hop off, which is possible well in time before you end up injuring yourself.
Today was the first session with the 36â UW. In not too long I managed one rotation being so close to more rotations, but I kept at it and then after 1.5 hours I could ride the distance in the picture from the car to the second lamppost about where you can see the bike rider.
This big wheel is very heavy, which I feel with the rotations. I had to keep telling myself to keep going.
At the start of the bike path is a long fence, which great to get used to the cadence of the wheel and then with enough speed I could force my balance point away from the fence above the wheel and keep rolling.
Next things on the menu are to start rolling from like a lamppost or the car. Because it is so heavy, it needs some additional force to get going.
After the session I wanted to tey the 28â again but it was so twitchy and then I hopped in the car and made this post.
Thanks heaps for the wheel @Ulkicycling
A few more sessions and I can let my daughter take a video without het getting impatient.
I want to try the UW, though I havenât really got around to getting it. Once I get one and start trying, I am planning on using a pair of old too-small-for-me ice hockey shin guards. They technically still fit, theyâre just too small for hockey.
I reckon you live far from the Dutch borderâŚ
I do⌠
Such a pity that the peeps interested in riding UW live so far apart. Already it is difficult finding normal unicyclists, though it was great being able to ride with Unikirk last week in Aarhus, Denmark. UW riders will be far more stretched.
I didnât wear my perfect pumpgun protectors, because they protect the front. But the tire has the tendency to attack the rear side. When I touch the tire on the g36" with the pumpgun protectors it makes a weired noise.