About 15 years ago, I had T-shirts printed for such cases. On the back (people look after me), it read “NO, I HAVEN’T LOST A WHEEL”
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And on the front, there could be a funny thing like: “if you are seeing a bike, please don’t drive right now” 
Sorry to hear about your accident.
So, it is interesting to me that you were trying to learn to ride “backwards”.
I can ride backwards, and I have never injured myself.
It can be done safely, but most often I see it done in the obvious dangerous method.
Let me ask you:
Method 1: Were you doing the typical “lean backwards” which is similar to when beginners learn “forwards riding”. This usually involves “accidental” speeding up for stability. Before you know it one pedal > 2 > 3…crash.
It would be similar to when a beginner learns forwards riding. You just lean to the direction of travel, balance with snake like hands and try to make it work. Then when it works the unicycle mysteriously seems to keep going faster. Then crash.
Method 2: Were you doing a series of “half idles” back pedals. You know. Step > pause > step > pause,…etc. This is done with your back straight up on the saddle in a slow stop/go motion. No leaning backwards for momentum.
Have safe recovery.
…slam
so which of those methods, or maybe a third is the best way for learning to ride backwards? I would prolly hang backwards slightly. But from the very start you would hold on to a wall right?
I learned by the lean backward method, but would strongly recommend the half rev method. But I would recommend learning doing it forwards first, then injecting a single half rev/idle backwards, then forwards again, with some deliberate twists in all directions. Then trying 2 half revs backwards, etc. Riding in half-revs with some stops and (big/small) twists here and there.
After trying that, I moved from being able to go backwards with some luck to be able to ride more than 50 m backwards in one go.
I was thinking more like “Was guckst du” (German), but I’m not sure how that translates into English. It means “What are you looking at” and is based on a German-Turkish comedian with the TV show of the same name.
Or “Remember: staring at people is considered rude” 
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My wife already thinks when I go away in the evening, it is to meet other women
… that’s why I named my latest “the exhibitionist”. I can be “riding the exhibitionist in front of the neighbors’ house.”
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they remember that they rode unicycles as teenagers
I feel like that’s a German/Austrian/Swiss thing. I have family that say this - but it’s definitely not the case in the US.
I wonder what other European countries that’s common in.
should be like that in every country. Or better yet: they should continue to ride, at least every now and then.
Nobody in my family ever rode unicycle. I just got the idea out of the blue when I was 39 years old. I can only hope that at some age my kids will want to join in.
Also from other Dutchies that I know ride unicycle, their parents never did.
It’s been awhile. I think I was going for a revolution backwards, then forwards. I should try learning your pause method going forwards (then backwards later?). I like Setonix’s, hang on to wall/fence, suggestion.
This is not an injury from falling, but I’ve overdone it with my UW training in the past month. UW is quite hard and the only way to get better at it, is to go all in. Unfortunately I overexerted my knee joint now. Yesterday I wanted to take the 36" UW for a spin, but as soon as I stood on it, I got a sharp sting in my knee. Just when today I also got the 24" UW.
Riding normal uni is still doable, because then there is hardly any pressure on my knee. So I rode 10km on the 24" uni yesterday instead. Still it is super annoying. This is not how I want to grow old. At 90 I still want to be able to ride UW 
For now I will focus on giving the 36" a nice colour.
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Recover quickly!
This tells me that ultra wheel is nothing for me…
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ok I will quickly remove the message ^_^. I think more peeps should give UW’s a try, coz they’re lotsa fun.
I wonder if idling also puts a strain on my knee joint. I’ve never been able to do this.
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Hmmm… I am still young, so I probably shouldn’t have problems with my knee… Maybe I should try UW.
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I’m also young but my health is already broken and there is no way to repair it.
stop with the cigarettes!
I don’t smoke and also no alcohol for me.
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I didn’t expect you to smoke. Not sure there are (m)any unicyclists that smoke. I reckon you need to be in a good shape to ride. Though I did once ride unicycle while I was drunk.