How long has everyone been unicycling?

[theamazingmolio]

Like the subject says really, and also, how did you get into it?

My dad once tried to learn to unicycle (when I was 2), and he was given a handmade unicycle (nylon bush bearings, homemade saddle brazed onto the frame, 20" bicycle wheel with 2 cottered inserts welded into the hole in the hub where there should have been a spindle). He never learnt to ride this contraption, and 2 years ago, when we were moving house, I found the remains of it, which consisted of the frame and the saddle, and one of those horrible little inserts. I got as far as finding 2 wheels for it, before we had to move, when I moved it from the "in progress" to the "to do" list. A couple of weeks after our arrival in Merry Oxfordshire, i joined the local juggling club.
During the two sessions before christmas, I completely failed to learn to unicycle, completely failed to learn to juggle, and managed to get across the tight-rope once. I was suprised when my Gran didn't keep asking me what I wanted for christmas that year, and guess what was in the 20" x 20" box on christmas morning?
I amazed myself by managing to ride about 5m by the end of the first day. And after that I had to learn to freemount, because there were no walls near the bit of concrete I was practicing on, and I got the hang of turning a few days after that, but I only managed 200m once after about a week, and I was absolutely knackered after that.

I saved up lots of money over christmas this year, and bought myself a giraffe, and now I want an ultimate wheel, and something with a bigger wheel so I don't have to pedal as hard to go long distances.

Sorry if I'm boring

[James_Potter]

I got a unicycle two Christmases ago. It was a 20" savage, and it was really crappy. I learned to ride it when the weather warmed up, in about March.

I wanted to learn to ride because on a speedcubing site, I saw someone had solved a Rubiks Cube while idling on a unicycle. So I made this my longterm goal. And it was easy, so I decided to do harder stuff on my unicycle. Now I like unicycling as much as I like speedcubing.

[theamazingmolio]

I can only solve rubik's cubes by peeling the coloured labels off and sticking them on in a different place

[JJuggle]

When my mother was pregnant with me my parents saw a performance by Ernest Montego during which he did his simultaneous giraffe/idling while balancing/juggling finish.

My father described it to me while I was still in utero and I was determined to make him proud.

I was born with the ability to unicycle and have been at it ever since.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

[HandyAndy]

i started in August 2002 after my uncle (UniBrier) brought a couple uni's on a camping trip, i failed to learn that week so i bought a cheep Norco 24 when i got home. not i have a Schwinn 24

[James_Potter]

Originally posted by theamazingmolio
I can only solve rubik's cubes by peeling the coloured labels off and sticking them on in a different place

That method of cheating is really slow, my best time with it is about five minutes. If you break the cube apart and put it together, that's much faster. I can do it in about thirty seconds. But the best way is just to not cheat, and actually solve it. I average 22 seconds that way.

[busnutmedic]

Originally posted by theamazingmolio
I can only solve rubik's cubes by peeling the coloured labels off and sticking them on in a different place
Hehehe...that's funny.

I've ben unicycling for about a week. My legs get so sore going over 30 feet at a time.

[Vinmacd]

This is my first post. I've unicycled for almost a year. I stared on a 20" schwinn and it was a lot easer than I thought. Now I can ride a 5 foot torker unicycle and it's not that much harder than the little one.

[treepotato]

year and half about

[sarah.miller]

13 years come july 3rd.

[Worminton]

I've been riding since last summer but I learned quick so it gave me an oppurtunity to learn lots of tricks. Now I own a united 20", an old one from the 60's and a 20" UW

[rwander12]

I got a unicycle for christmas. Its a 20'' trials but i dont know the company. I practiced in my basement all winter and now im riding outside. I think i'm about a level 3.

[andrew_carter]

Almost 2 years now. I learnt to ride on the 2nd of May 2002. I used to do quite a bit of mountain biking and saw the movie 'New World Disorder' featuring Kris Holm. Soon after that I started saving for a uni.

Andrew

[busta_gustv]

my parents got a unicycle for the family for Xmas. they wrapped it in a big sack and said it was from santa.

within two days i could sort of ride and i just used to ride around on the driveway. i then saw a episode of ripplies believe it or not featuring Kris Holm (a couple of scenes from one tyred guy). i thought, hey that guy can bunny hop. within about a week and a half i had masterd 180's of the end of our 1m high deck. and since then i have just kept learning.

i have been riding about 3 years now and destroyed 3 unicycles.

[GILD]

Originally posted by busta_gustv
...and destroyed 3 unicycles. an important snippet of info left out of the original question
;)

i've been at it for about three years now
saw them lying around the juggling club and nearly cracked my coccyx butt-planting before deciding it wasn't for me
walked into a cycling store one day and smarmily asked the guy if they had unicycles (unis r rare in South african cycling shops)

they had

[JJuggle]

Originally posted by GILD
walked into a cycling store one day and smarmily asked the guy if they had unicycles (unis r rare in South african cycling shops)

they had I have been routinely walking into mall videos for sale stores for the past year or two and haughtily asking them if they had a copy of Chaplin's The Circus (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018773/) for sale. Seems that quality films has not been an overriding concern for these establishments.

Well, the last time they did. Just out on DVD for $30 plus tax. Ouch. I can't say I'm sorry I bought it though. What an absolutely brilliant man that Chaplin was.

Cheers,
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

[theamazingmolio]

HaHa! last time you ask a question like that!

OK then... How long have you been unicycling? How did you get into it? and how many unis have you destroyed?

I haven't yet destroyed any unicycles, but I have twice discovered the answer to onlooker's questions about, "What happens if you get a puncture?", one of those was on the giraffe.

Fortunately I haven't yet got an answer to the one, "What happens if the chain falls off?" I'm sure the day is coming though!

[tennisgh22]

got a 12" savage when i was 4 or 5 :)

-grant

[dubmuni2004]

1 year, got into it through downhill mountain biking.

[treepotato]

13 years come july 3rd.

Wow! Sarah that'a a long time, it shows in your unicycling skills ;)

[tiped again]

I haven't RIDEN at all.
Just got a uni and tried for half hour this morning. By then my legs are very tired. My "between the legs' is sore. That stupid little seat is realy hard on a man. Where it goes there already is something.

Mu conclusion is; "only an ididot would try to ride a pointed stick with a wheel on the bottom". Who ever invented this thing.

YES I will be back at it later. Just had to take a break and find this site so I had somebody to complain to and see if "IT" realy can be riden.:confused: :confused:

[UniBrier]

Originally posted by tiped again
only an ididot would try to ride a pointed stick with a wheel on the bottomThis idiot has been riding a pointed stick with a wheel on the bottom for 28 years.:)

[theamazingmolio]

Originally posted by treepotato
it shows in your unicycling skills ;)

Somebody wants a free sticker! ;)

[tiped again]

U B ; I can't wait 28 years. I will be real near 100 by then. I better get to the basement and practice.:(

[UniManiac]

about three months but my friends say i leared fast in like two weeks

[KJ-52]

I've been riding since last summer. I got to go to the first ever " tour de Leola" in Leola Pa probably near fall. It was fun, but I couldn't ride and walked most of the course, but got to see lots of people who could ride. They have a club that I just went to for the first time this thursday, and now I can ride forwards, freemount, pd ( planned dismount ), and hop. They were doing skills testing so i'm now officially level 1, woo hoo!!!

I kinda forget why I started, maybe cause I wanted to be different. But now I do it cause it's fun and challenging, it's also a good ice breaker and lots of kids I know at this youth center are wanting to learn. At the club I saw some of the people I met at the unicycle ride, and got to try a coker, pretty sure I want one, so it was a good time.

I haven't trashed any uni's, I dont' do anything that extreme yet. I wanna learn to mount with my left and right foot so I can be level 2, woo hooo!!

Andrew

[johnglazer]

Being able to ride, almost two years. Owning a unicycle and riding trials, a little over a year.

john

[ITEMNO530]

ALMOST A YEAR!!

I have to find out my anniversary date... O_O

[unifreak7]

Yo, I've been riding for 3 years now. I"m a level 8 rider, with hittin' up 180, 270, 360, 450, aand 540 unispins. Gliding, Coasting, Side Ride, and Stand up walk the wheel are great. Trials, street, and freestlye is my style of riding. Sometimes Trails, not a lot though, they're to easy. My Vert is 'round 25 inches. THat's about it, nearly as good as Dan Heaton in universe one, shouldn't be too hard with one more month to practive before my frist movie.

[tennisgh22]

a level 8 "unicycling newbie"? :)

-grant