hi,
now I ride my normal unicycle about 2.5 years and want to learn now to ride a ultimate wheel. What is the best wheelsize at the beginning ? What is easier to learn ?
Who trials on a ultimate wheel ?
thanks
_Felix
Re: ultimate wheel
George Peck goes off-road on an ultimate wheel. He can roll up curbs. I donât know if he does any hopping on the ultimate wheel. Amazing stuff.
MUni on an ultimate wheel⌠âyowsersâ is all I can say.
Phil, just me
Re: ultimate wheel
zoiks!
Whatâs the easiest way to Learn ultimate wheeling? Just trying seat drags? or
should I just take my wheel off and try on that?
-Dylan
Re: ultimate wheel
extremeunicycler@aol.com writes:
>zoiks!
>Whatâs the easiest way to Learn ultimate wheeling? Just trying seat
>drags? or
>should I just take my wheel off and try on that?
>
>-Dylan
I found both of those WAY harder than riding an actual UW. The best way is
to get ahold of an UW and practice. It really makes a HUGE difference if
friction has been reduced, and the best way I have come across for this
(if you are using a new UW, for example), is to cover both sides of the
wheel with packing tape. I learned in about a half hour after I did this
â compared with many wasted hours before using the tape. David Bagley has
tried nail polish (clear, tho I am sure you could get creative). And there
are some tires that are really good for UWs. A kid in my club has a 26" UW
with a thin tire thatâs just as good (without tape) as my taped 24" tire.
Other things NOT to bother trying:
- Packing tape on the legs of some ratty old pants â not really
effective, and you might make the tape too tight. - Spray-on silicone â doesnât tend to dry, so it ruins whatever is
covering your lower legs - Learning to ride an UW while wearing shorts. Unless you like
crescent-shaped scrapes on the really soft skin of the inside of your
lower legs - Learning on a fairly steep downhill â occasionally the UW will shoot
out from you. The same goes for learning on a downhill that leads right
into traffic. - Be creative â tell us about some other bad things to avoid trying.
I tried all but #2 and can vouch for the waste-of-time-ness of the lot.
David Stone
Co-founder, Unatics of NY
1st Sunday / 3rd Saturday
@ Central Park Bandshell
1:30 start time after 11/1/01
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Yeah, that being creative stuff is for the birds⌠
How the hell do you mount the UW? Does everybody just lean on a fence?
Sofa,
Here is a video clip of Scott Bridgeman mounting an ultimate wheel.
http://muniac.com/videoclip.htm
Scroll down until you find the description and still photo.
Work the maze.
I can recomend 24ââ over 20ââ . I have tried a 20ââ, and found it alot harder. Maybe 26ââ is even better, but I havenât tried that yet.
Borges
RE: ultimate wheel
> wheel with packing tape. I learned in about a half hour after
> I did this
> â compared with many wasted hours before using the tape.
> David Bagley has
> tried nail polish (clear, tho I am sure you could get
> creative). And there
> are some tires that are really good for UWs. A kid in my club
> has a 26" UW with a thin tire thatâs just as good (without
> tape) as my taped 24" tire.
I put an old, dried out tire on my UW, and the first time I tried it out was
in a show. I was amazed to find myself riding it so long, I had to dismount
ON PURPOSE! That was a new concept for me. Ultraviolet light breaks down
tires so that they lose their grippiness in time. This tire was a pretty old
one, and the sides were nice and slick. It worked great!
But the reason why I canât recommend this, is that you canât ride this tire
indoors. The rubber is so UVâd out, you can put a bunch of weight on the
down pedal and then slide the thing sideways across the linoleum floor of
our gym. Oops. But if you only ride outdoors, this method will work fineâŚ
JF
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> What is the best wheelsize at the beginning ?
I agree that a bigger wheel is probably easier, due to the fact that the
tire rubs your legs when learning. The bigger the wheel, the less angle and
pressure youâll get against your legs.
The drawback of a bigger wheel is that itâs going to be heavier, and take up
more space.
Iâve seen professional performers on 24", 26" and 20" ultimate wheels doing
real good stuff. This guy:
http://www.unicycling.com/cgi-bin/genin.pl?=pictext/cccp.txt,11
is on a 26". He performed in the Ringling show later. Go to the âpreviousâ
picture to see his UW next to a 20". Someday I would like to have an UW like
that. Itâs lighter than my solid wood one, and I like the way it looksâŚ
JF
hey,
thank you for the a great help !!
now I would try to ride a ultimate wheelâŚ
@ John: A very cool picture. In the circus I have seen an ultimate wheel rider some years ago. At that time the artist drillet the ultimate wheel and jumped on it. After this he was rolling the uw in a big circle und jumped sometimes on itâŚgreat and very impressive (!!!)
thanks
_Felix
god bless
Re: ultimate wheel
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:36:39 -0500, Sofa
<Sofa.7571a@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>How the hell do you mount the UW? Does everybody just lean on a fence?
Edwin Kuppens in the Netherlands is solid in two types of mounts which
could best be described as the equivalent of a jump mount and a
rolling mount.
Klaas Bil
Re: ultimate wheel
Greetings
In message âRe: ultimate wheelâ,
Borges wroteâŚ
>
>>
>> What is the best wheelsize at the beginning ? What is easier to learn
>> ?
>>
>
>I can recomend 24ââ over 20ââ . I have tried a 20ââ, and found it alot
>harder. Maybe 26ââ is even better, but I havenât tried that yet.
I have tried various sizes and I swear by 24" with 5.5" crank length.
Yuuichiro Kato, one of the top UW riders in the world, rides a 22".
Regards, Jack Halpern
President, The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.
http://www.cjk.org Phone: +81-48-473-3508
Re: ultimate wheel
Jack Halpern wrote:
> Greetings
>
> In message âRe: ultimate wheelâ,
> Borges wroteâŚ
> >[color=darkred]
> >>
> >> What is the best wheelsize at the beginning ? What is easier to learn
> >> ?
> i learned on a 26" and found it to be most accomodatingâŚreason for me
> being the wheel hits up higher on the leg so i [feel anyway] that i have
> more control over the damn thing. Also, the longer cranks on the 26 let you
> do more rough terrain stuff like curbs and large gravel better. But it
> really comes down to a personal choiceâŚwhatever you have available and
> best suits your terrain and expectationsâŚbe advised, however, that once
> you learn at one size, a different size is almost a totally new experience.
> >
> >I can recomend 24ââ over 20ââ . I have tried a 20ââ, and found it alot
> >harder. Maybe 26ââ is even better, but I havenât tried that yet.
>
> I have tried various sizes and I swear by 24" with 5.5" crank length.
> Yuuichiro Kato, one of the top UW riders in the world, rides a 22".
>
> Regards, Jack Halpern
> President, The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.
> http://www.cjk.org Phone: +81-48-473-3508
>
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I ride a gazzaloddi 26" x 3.0 UW
it does fine in rough terrain
when i ride, i wear Xtra Tuff rubber boots, and wrap-around leg pads.
i just learned how to hop on it, it feels really weird. last night i hopped up (and down) 12 stairs.
Wow, Mountain UW, thatâs something I never heard of before.
Seems hard enough just to ride over flat ground. But thatâs what everyone thought about unicycling before they tried it, soâŚ
Re: ultimate wheel
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:46:50 -0600, kristopher_peck wrote:
>I ride a gazzaloddi 26" x 3.0 UW
>i just learned how to hop on it, it feels really weird. last night i
>hopped up (and down) 12 stairs.
You seem to be âpeckingâ up where your father left it. (Or did he?)
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
âHeck, even my toes were aching from trying to grip the soles of my shoes! - Tommy Thompsonâ
My first UW was made from a 27", thinking it would be easier if bigger. After a while, I made a 24" and eventually a 20". The 24" was a lot easier to ride than either the 20 or 27. My 24" is very very heavy, but Iâve seen people ride it who could ride no other. It was machined to exacting tolerances, but I think itâs the weight and size more than anything.
You may get differences of opinion, and everyone might be correct. The best for you, may not be the best for anyone else.
I only have the 24" now.
pads
hey, i took a freeze frame of my setup
