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[–] 50 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

this seems like something my dad would do, deservingly to be fair. I've gotten up to some pretty stupid shit

for example I currently have a sprained wrist from falling off my unicycle during my break at work.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    I always tell people "you can't fall off a unicycle". I've actually fallen once and nobody was around to see.

    99.9% of the time you can easily dismount and let the cycle drop, but once in a while you can actually fall

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    that's very true, I'm not the best at free mounting and often bail 3 or 4 times before I actually get going. (also a 27" wheel so a bit more difficult than my old one)

    what happened that made me actually fall and not just bail is that the road was at an angle and I had my psi a bit too high so it kinda popped out from under me.
    I caught myself with my hands, small scrape on one of them and sprained the other. Also scraped my knee too. I used to have wrist braces but I lost them when I moved and haven't used it regularly enough to get new ones. I probably will now 😅

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I saw someone yesterday with a big wheel who I was sure was about to bail. He was unicycling down a pretty steep street. He managed to make it down the street and turn the corner, but it looked like a real struggle.

    I know from riding a fixie that for streets that aren't too steep it's not hard, you just have to effectively "pedal backwards", allowing slowing the pedals down as they come up behind you. But, I don't know what a unicyclist can do on a very steep street. What I would do on a fixie doesn't work because it requires small skid-stops, which means you need a front wheel.

    What would you do on a steep hill? I assume that by the time you realize it's too steep you're already going pretty fast, so just bailing would be difficult.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    What would you do on a steep hill?

    to be honest I would probably just fall 😭 i live in Florida which does not have a lot of elevation variety so I luckily don't have to deal with that problem as much. I know on the REALLY big ones or ones for off road use (which look sick btw) they have a brake handle on the front

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I have looked back on some really stupid thing I did and wondered why no one in my family called me out. Not that I blame them. It’s just weird to me that I smoked cigarettes all those years and they never gave me shit for it. My brother even gave me a fancy lighter for my birthday once. Again: not their fault I was an idiot but telling someone they are being a dolt can be an act of love.

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