Earlier today i decided to take the frame off my 20" learner uni and make it into a homemade ultimate wheel (anyone else tried this)? Last time i tried this i coudnt even go one revolution (that was a few months ago when i couldnt seat drag). Well after an hour of practice I accomplished a few things:
Rode about 100 feet
Kick up mount
Sucide mount
180 spin mount
What would be some other tricks to try on it? I was thinking Idling or backwards but when i tried it (idling) it was super hard because of the pedals being so far from the wheel. How much easier/better to ride is a regular ultimate wheel?
Here are some pictures of my homemade one. My right pedal broke in half (it was already broken). I couldn’t get any pictures of me riding it because its too dark out and the camera’s battery needs to be recharged.
I successfully went off a 3 inch drop off the side of my driveway. I’ll try something bigger when i get better. How would you unispin though? becuase when you hop you have to hold onto the tire so you’re croached down alot which would make it really hard to clear the wheel with your feet as you spin it around.
I did the same thing as you, only with a 24" uni. It works okay I guess…
I havent ridden it in forever, but I’ve done a 12" drop on it (its easier to hold the tire and jump off) and I could hop up a small curb…
A rolling mount is pretty easy. And it looks cool. Roll it along with your hand and step on one foot at a time. Also, a jump mount/suicide mount (I guess they’re the same thing) and kickupmount.
Other than that, I can’t do much tricks… I tried a UWspin a few times, but gave up for good reason. One thing you could do, maybe, is go from a normal unicycle to the UW…
what about pirouettes, or 180s 360s etc, no footers, jumping without holding onto the wheel, different kids of grabs, hopping idle, idle. i dont think any of these should be impossible. they may be extremely difficult but shouldnt be impossible.
Here are some ideas of things I have seen other riders do on an ultimate wheel
-ride backwards
-frontspin (Ride backwards then spin around into riding forwards carrying on in a straight line)
-backspin (same as frontspin by you end up riding backwards
-hopping without holding the tyre (one way to do this is to have your pedals vertical and hook the top foot UNDER the top pedal).
-skipping
-idling
-crankflip (no kidding, I’ve seen footage of a guy jump off his ultimate wheel, over a bar while it rolled underneath it, then he landed back on it)
-jump from one moving ultimate wheel to another (rolling)
-180 body spin (jump up, rotate your body 180 degrees and then land back on the wheel)
Some of those skills are very hard. Hopping without holding the tyre is probably the best on to start on.
I’ll try something bigger when i get better. How would you unispin though? becuase when you hop you have to hold onto the tire so you’re croached down alot which would make it really hard to clear the wheel with your feet as you spin it around.