I only learned to unicycle after 50. I ride most days now and try to get younger people into it.
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I reckon I can now officially post in this thread. I turned 50 last Saturday
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Happy birthday and welcome to an elite class of unicyclists.
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You did it wrong. Just turn the wheel, not yourself!!! Turning the wheel keeps young, turning yourself lets you age.
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ok ok ok, from now on I will focus on learning to ride backwards.
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do I understand from your reaction, you feel left out?
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To rewind time? A tad above the speed of light should do the trick. But luckily weāre on the unicyclist forum and @Canapin can change history and kick us back 
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Oh, that shouldāve read:
I got that, and so because ur not yet 50 I reckon, you feel left outā¦
Actually, Iām quite ok with ābeing left outā. 
Fun day out on my favorite local trail in California.
A couple of weeks ago I literally fell head first into the rocks down to the left, so Iām still a little nervous.
Took me eight tries to finally get it.
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Happy new year. We had a stretch of nice weather last weekend so I was able to get out on my 32er sporting a new oracle frame. I took advantage and rode Christmas day, Friday and Sunday. Ending a pretty active cycling year both unicycling and bicycling. I was really hoping to be able to ride today, the first day of 2026 but our weather now is snow and cold and I donāt ride in the snow. So to mark the occasion of the first day of the year I rode 26 miles on my indoor bike trainer and threw in .2 miles on top to make it a marathon. Here is to a good year of riding to come and all of you 50 plus riders keep on trucking.
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Some peeps love riding in the snow. Just see it as a new challenge. Possibly balancing on a wheel is more secure than walking, even without spikes. Last year I did go for a ride in the snow and naturally my wheel slipped and sent me flying. Today, my kids wanted me to pull the sled with them on it. That took all my energy, because they pretended they had a whip and made me run for it. Who knows maybe tomorrow.
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Iām a very new rider, over 50, and just decided a couple of weeks ago that I wanted to learn how to ride. I have a Sun Extreme 20-inch, since I can get deals on them where I work. Iām thinking later I might get a nicer flatland-type unicycle when I get some more skill. Right now, all I can accomplish is riding 50 feet or so every once in a while, but Iām going to keep at it. Iāve already had my first big spill, which convinced me to get a helmet and some wrist guards. Iām looking at the KH percussion leg guards also (got a nasty pedal bite 
).
I figured that Iād follow some of the how-toās available online and try some of the simpler skills before I tried to do some of the things that Iād really like to learn, like wheel walking and gliding, perhaps some spins. Itās very hilly where I live, and I might also try muni.
Love reading the board, lots of encouragement from watching everyone elseās progress!
EDIT: Iām in northern Alabama near Guntersville, if anyone here unicycles around there ā¦
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Welcome, @clyde !
If you are in northern Alabama, and are even somewhat interested in Muni, do a search for STOMP on this site, watch the videos, and then attend STOMP later this year.
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Look up Majic city Muni club on FB
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@Adrianvdr: Nice rock section! Great trial/muni combination. Reminds me of technical trails in Fruita and Grand Junction CO. I wish we had more trails like that here in the Alps but almost all our trails are super steep.
@MUCFreerider Thanks. I am lucky to have good technical trails in my area, but nothing like Fruita/Moab. Those trails are epic!
Iād love to ride in the Alps one day. Where are the best (technical) trails?
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That really depends on what you mean by technical. The Alps does have great natural technical downhill with lots of switchbacks and tight steep sections. But not so many rock gardens with trialsy-technical trails as trails are super-steep, it rains a lot and there are not so many fixed rocks or rock bands and/or the rocks becomes mostly loose stone/gravel, which makes trial moves hard.
Plus, not many purpose built trails here - yes there are flowy or big drop/jump bike park trails - but nothing like the built bike trails in Fruita/Grand Junction/Moab or the North Shore type of lumber/skinny built trails. One plus for muni over bikes in the Alps: many of the descents take a long time with the tight switchbacks rather that fast flowy DH park trails, so the downhill isnāt over in mere minutes. Within an hour drive from Munich there are many super technical trails with 700-1400m vertical drop but nothing flowy except for forest roads and flatter XC. Negative: almost nothing for just above beginner level, but almost endless challenge on steep hiking trails for challenging natural DH. And Austria/Switzerland/France similar but with even more vertical drop. Muni at Unicon in Austria should be pretty technical (I donāt know the local trails but do know almost all the muni organizers, so should be good).
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