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And I looked at what I can add to have free shipping. After I told my mum that they have unicycles she told me: "It will be f-ing awesome, buy it."
So as responsible, grown up man I am now owner of unicycle.
(Here you can see how I tested the rack)
As a fellow unicycle owner, the thing I hate the most about it is that I can't find anywhere to practice riding it where I don't feel like an attention whore.
I mean I am an attention whore, but I don't want to feel like it.
Only attention I got was guy saying that when I will need first aid kit I should shout so he can get to me.
Thankfully I got to practice on mostly level, hard, compacted, slightly grassy driveway.So thankfully whenever I did fall, injuries were insignificant. At worst, a bruised knee or something minor.
If anything, I'd say it's more important that the terrain you practice on needs to be almost perfectly level, and absolutely no potholes or anything around.
Same, except I'm not an attention whore (or at least I don't openly admit it).
I would really like to unicycle to work, but that goes a bit too far down the attention-whore path (not to mention I work really far away).
The university near me offers a wild variety of sports, including unicycling. Maybe you have a similar sports institution nearby?
My then-sixtyish year old dad bought a unicycle. He also bought a pair of ski poles to help him balance while learning to ride it by traveling up and down a long hallway in his home.
This doesn't really add anything to the conversation, but I've always found it funny and rarely had an opportunity to share it.
Ski poles? It sounds dangerous I would impale myself with them.
I don't think there was anyone around at the time who suggested that it was a good idea, heh.
At the time, my mom - his wife of 27 years - had recently died and I think he was trying to find himself again. Unicycles with ski poles weren't the only odd decisions he made.
Dangit, I'm jealous now, I want a unicycle!
Do you know how to mount and ride it? I do, took me a good solid 2 months to learn though.
Didn't had a clue but I will probably learn it. It doesn't feel that difficult as I expected. So in few weeks I will be probably riding but mounting is difficult so I will leave it for later.
Here's a couple of tutorial videos that should help...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6NT8upwdMQo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7ndhjAxhnIs
Good luck!
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
:)
I loaned out my 20" and never got it back, so I picked up a 29", which I absolutely love. I still miss my 20" though, so I might just pick one up the next time my kid wants to learn to ride. :)
Who TF steals a unicycle? Damn I hate to hear that.
I learned on a 24", pretty sure that would be my preferred size if I ever get another one. Only reason I don't have my old one is because it was manufactured in 1974, and I had absolutely no clue where to get replacement parts for it when the pedal crank mounts started gradually coming loose. The wedge bolt things that held it together were stripped out.
Eh, I got it for $50 and it worked to get me to learn, so I'm not too hung up on it. And I leant it to a coworker who was contracting with our org, and after the job ended, he didn't reach out to return it (I didn't either). It was kinda crappy, so whatever.
That said, I'm casually in the market again. I'll get a good one this time too.
Oh fuck those old wedge bolts, lol
Do children tend to own unicycles?
I mean that the decision to buy it made the childish part of my brain.
But as my mum said it is f-ing awesome and I will learn to ride it.
My kid wants one.
Haha that is awesome. I have tried riding one a couple times but just couldn't do it. Stay safe :)
@lgsp I am always interested in such things. thanks will check it out properly when next at my computer!
The Lemmy connection with mastodon isn't best, but you already followed my account on mastodon with same pictures but in Czech (text is the same).