wind!

General
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Hi!

My name is Walter and started unicycling last september.

Today I was riding my 28" unicycle. The total distance was 17,0 km (10,6
miles). I was thinking about getting back home in one run, thus without
dismounting.

But then the wind became stronger and stronger, from about 8 km it was very
hard to ride and after 14,2 km (almost there) the wind blown me off the
road :frowning: and I had to dismount.

Better luck next time…

Walter

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That’s still a pretty good distance without a dismount. In fact, it’s an excellent distance.

To reduce the effects of severe wind:

  1. Don’t wear baggy clothes.
  2. Tuck your arms in, hold the handle/seat front.
  3. Bend over to reduce your frontal area.
  4. Leave a bit of ‘reserve’ in your speed. You might need to accelerate suddenly to cope with a gust, or a sudden drop in the wind.
  5. Relax - sometimes you need to swerve with the wind, rather than fight it.

or

  1. Chew your food properly and avoid cabbage, sprouts or pulses.
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  1. Close your umbrella
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I thought I had stumbled onto the wrong forum.

Wind! is usually a headline on a windsurfing forum.

To reduce the effects of severe wind:

  1. Rig a smaller sail

And sometimes a skydiving forum.

  1. Pack a smaller parachute

However, if you’re an oddball on a unicycling forum

  1. Get out the hacksaw

Happy Holidays, Everybody!

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Re: wind!

Mikefule wrote:

> To reduce the effects of severe wind:
>
> 1) Don’t wear baggy clothes.
> 2) Tuck your arms in, hold the handle/seat front.
> 3) Bend over to reduce your frontal area.
> 4) Leave a bit of ‘reserve’ in your speed. You might need to
> accelerate suddenly to cope with a gust, or a sudden drop in the wind.
> 5) Relax - sometimes you need to swerve with the wind, rather than
> fight it.
>
> or
>
> 6) Chew your food properly and avoid cabbage, sprouts or pulses.

Thanks, good points! Maybe the bigger amount of food with Christmas was
making the wind effect worse :wink:

I think also the wind direction is important, as it’s easier for me to turn
right than turn left. And tiredness.
In the beginning the wind came from my right side, what was making me tired
mostly because I wasn’t riding relaxed anymore with my arms pointed to
wind.
Then the wind came from my front left I couldn’t keep it and rode straight
into the grass on the right side of the road.

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I was riding downtown one time in Rexburg, ID (home of snow and wind, and that’s about it), doing fine, when I passed an alleyway. The wind was blowing so hard down the alley that it knocked me off the uni, like suddenly being shoved. Weird experience.