Generally speaking (Unless you are intermediate/professional) the riding season ends near first snowfall.
What are other riders doing during the winter season?
Presently I am rallying to have an indoor venu that bmx, unicyclist, etc have an indoor location for riding. Together with a local Bike shop we are investigating setup of unicycle workshop.
The workshop idea is to promote first time unicyclist. Winter is usually slow at bike shops so this may help them too.
I am interested to hear from other parties so I can gain idea’s how to make this a reality.
Here in Israel there is not that much snow. Winter is our rainy season and boy is the mud fun! Not that snow would stop me. It would probably act as a cusion to falls!
Northern VA hasn’t had that much snow in recent years, so I haven’t been able to mess around on my uni in the snow. I will probably bust out my Yuni 29er if snow hits us this year.
Why does winter signify the end of the season? It’s just colder - wear a coat. If its hailing/crazy icy out, thats one thing, but just because its cold that’s not reason to not ride! Even a little snow won’t hurt, assuming its not too deep.
I suppose you’re right, but last winter in the aftermath of the ice storm in Winchester, I saw a guy take spill off a bicycle into a brick wall, and cars sliding all over the place. The lack of snow/ice is wreaking havoc on people’s skill to drive/ride in it, they don’t get any practice. Not to mention, snow removal services are pretty poor. My campus was covered in a 2-4 inch layer of ice for 4 days, and we still had classes.
I’ll be going home to Pennsylvania over the winter break, and I’m going to mail my uni to myself so I can ride, and it’s sure going to be pretty cold in PA.
I practice Freestyleindoors in the Winter mostly. But my trials tire is usually all cracked by the end of the winter cause of riding it over salt and stuff.
Snow riding with unicycle its realy owsome. Last year we all have 170mm cranks and ware beginners, this year have 145/150mm cranks,brake and ride much better
Ironically I learnt to ride two winters ago and really got into it last winter. I probably do more riding when there is snow on the ground than when there isn’t.
Winter opens up a lot of places to ride, the swampy skidoo trials are suddenly solid and rideable and ski-hills open up so you can get that downhill thrill with less chance of severe injury.
I am also usually a lot busier during the summer than I am during the rest of the year.
The only thing I don’t really like about winter is having half a dozen hours of light a day.
For those of you who have munied at ski slopes, how did you talk them into letting you ride the trails? Did you buy a pass and just go for it or did you have to first speak to someone in charge?
I just bought the pass then asked the guy at the lift, he didn’t have a problem and neither did anyone else. It would probably be a good idea to get official permission though.
One thing that did come up was the possibility of attaching some sort of strap to it like you would a snow board to prevent a “runaway uni” but I just said that it will fall when I fall and doesn’t slide like a ski and that seemed to satisfy the issue.
I really hope nobody has a runaway uni on a ski slope that hurts someone now as being tied to it would really suck.
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