Get a large wheeled one and they will not think like that. An older picture of mine
I have hit 65km/h going downhill on mine and in the grand scheme of things I still have relatively little wheels. You can get these with 28/29 inch wheels.
Get a large wheeled one and they will not think like that. An older picture of mine
I have hit 65km/h going downhill on mine and in the grand scheme of things I still have relatively little wheels. You can get these with 28/29 inch wheels.
Yes you are pinned by the handlebars but no it is not the “slightest brake”. I have had two slightly scary falls during the years I have owned mine but have never seriously hurt myself with it and I have ridden it a lot and even once competed in racing alongside @rogeratunicycledotcom no less (yes he is a lot faster than me!)
I have cracked my ribs when going offroad at speed on that scooter/footbike though.
I agree with @riari it is more than the slightest brake that makes you go over the front. It does depend on the geometry. There is a cheap Indian 28" penny farthing that just throws you over the front with the slightest over brake (with your feet).
I have never crashed (where is that Pinocchio emoji?). Actually I should say I have never crashed and hurt myself. The worst/most entertaining was in the European championships last year where I over cooked it on the first corner and decided to go on the outside of a cone so as not to take someone else out and did not see the rope tieing it to a row a barriers. It was a bit messy.
I do, the first two pics show everything solved, the second two are everything scrambled, afterall you can’t solve them if you don’t scramble them. I do bulk scrambles and then spend the next few months solving everything.
@Canapin Now I want a quokka as a pet. They look so cute and he can bite my son before he has time to bite me. All pros, no cons.
It would take me a life time just to solve 1. But it is just a trick you need to get. If you can solve one you can solve them all kinda thing.
that is quite a collection.
There are actually a multitude of skills involved in solving the different types and styles of puzzles. In the end it breaks down to understanding how each different type of piece can be moved and then figuring out how to move them without affecting other pieces that have already been solved.
I learned to solve the stabdard Rubik’s Cube in about a week, but some of these took me months to figure out on my own.
I’ve definitely seen some of those collapse between the hand of someone trying to solve them on Youtube…
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When you collapse them you have a different kind of puzzle to put them back together again.
Those peeps are already frustrated having to solve them and then they get even more frustrated when it all breaks. very funny… time is ticking…
In 2009 I saw some some videos of people riding muni and it looked like fun. I decided to learn to ride a unicycle and ultimately muni. I started a blog to track my progress and called it Muni Or Bust. Either learn to ride muni, or fail (bust).
Would you mind if I show these pictures to my girlfriend? She often complains about the place my unicycles take. She might realise they don’t take so much place compared to other hobbies
Not at all! This has been a growing hobby for many years. Even I’m surprised sometimes by how much space it takes up lol.
Sorry for semi thread theft, completely unintentional. Please everyone ignore my past few posts and reply with responses true to the original concept. If anyone wants to chat with me about my previous posts feel free to pm.
Yeah, Splotter Spellen is my favorite designer, and Roads and Boats and Antiquity are my favorites.
I’m not terribly imaginative. The COM is for computer (I’m in IT), and the BIKE is because I ride a bike. The odometer on my good bike is almost 56,000 km. I challenged myself to learn uni when I surpassed the distance around the earth (40,070 km) on my bike.
What do you do in IT? Im a software developer.
Where do you ride with your bike? Now try 40,070km on 1 wheel.
My first name is John, named after an uncle, middle name is Gilbert, named after my Grandfather Gilbert, my family called me ‘Johnny Gilbrat’ as a young child.
Basically, I do everything in IT except websites. I’ve been working professionally in IT since 1968. I started programming and worked my way up to making operating system modifications on mainframes, then became an independent consultant in 1976. I’m one of the few people who does both hardware and software.
I have noticed that a truly surprising percentage of uni riders are in IT. There must be some sort of explanation, but I have no inkling of why there is a link.
I do my riding around Montreal, Canada. My average ride last year was about 95 km, and my long rides were 165 km. When I was a bit younger (I’m 74 now), my long rides were 240 km.
I have no illusions that I will do 40,000 km on one wheel. I seem to only be able to ride for a couple of minutes before UPD, and I haven’t managed to learn to freemount, which keeps me from actually going anywhere. I recently noticed that my practicing has almost always involved right turns, so now I’m trying to focus on turning left.
So far, I’ve only seen 2 other people on uni. I would really like to meet others and (hopefully) learn by osmosis. Everything I learned, I learned on my own, though I did watch some YT videos. I say I attended classes at the University of YouTube.
Where do you grace the roads?
Hi Combike, by the time you became independent, I was just 1 year old. I live in The Netherlands
I actually have a degree in Forestry and Nature Conservation, but after the education, I ended up at a forestry company, sawing down trees with a chainsaw. As I didn’t want to do that the rest of my life and I had a passion for computers (gaming and then figuring out if I could change anything, so I could cheat), I found a job agency specialised in IT that offered a 1 month course before placing me at some IT company, which started the ball rolling in 1999. First 7 years at a company that primarily built websites and then got a girlfriend in Denmark, which got me to move there. Then I ended up at Vestas Wind Systems who build wind turbines globally and have been with them ever since building financial applications.
I got into unicycling while I lived in Denmark. There are several unicycle clubs there, but more than an hours drive away, so I’ve mostly been practicing alone.