I can ride for ~2-3 blocks (sometimes) without stopping!
What a feeling!
Now if I can just learn to turn, stop, mount without leaning on a
pole,…
Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
44yrs old, 24" wheel.
I’m getting another unicycle with a smaller wheel, which I’m told is easier
to learn on, so hopefully the other essentials will be easier.
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Remove the OBVIOUS to autoreply.
Re: WOW! I DID IT!
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 08:13:14 -0700, “The 70’s”
<marc_70@OBVIOUSyahoo.ca> wrote:
>I can ride for ~2-3 blocks (sometimes) without stopping!
Congrats! Do you care to check your talent with the Unicycling
Talent-o-meter and send me your stats? See
<www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/talent.htm>.
>I’m getting another unicycle with a smaller wheel, which I’m told is easier
>to learn on, so hopefully the other essentials will be easier.
True. I remember I struggled learning to idle on a 24" wheel. When I
loaned a 20" it came quickly (and then I could transfer the ability to
the 24" wheel relatively easily).
>Remove the OBVIOUS to autoreply.
AUTOreply?
“the helmet is to protect the brain, not replace it. - iunicycle”
Re: WOW! I DID IT!
Can I shout a big YeeeeeHaaaaaaa for you! Great Job. Keep that practice up and you’ll progess daily. BTW, I am a 40 year old rider. I started when I was 8 though.
Again, congratulations!!! --chirokid–
Re: WOW! I DID IT!
> Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
> 44yrs old, 24" wheel.
Good for you! I’d learned to ride and mount about 15 years ago and did
nothing with it.
Then, last year (at 44) a friend was selling a 6’ semcycle giraffe for a
price I could not pass up. So…
I got out the 15year old 20" and practiced, practiced, practiced.
> I’m getting another unicycle with a smaller wheel, which I’m told is
easier
> to learn on, so hopefully the other essentials will be easier.
I can now idle ‘forever’ on either my 20 or 24". - the 20" is distictly
easier (for me).
However, I expect that bumps (which I have yet to really work at) are harder
on the smaller wheel, simply because any given bump is relatively larger to
a small wheel than to a large wheel.