Finally riding again

[dlc@gate.net]

Hi Everyone!

The weather here is finally cooling off enough to ride at lunch time in Florida.
At lunch, my wife walks the mile to my office and I walk back with her pushing
my uni. I then ride back. I did a mile exactly in about 10 minutes.

Now my problem, after several months off, I am having trouble with the insides
of my legs being sore after riding, what can I do? I have a cheap "savage" 20"
that I picked up locally.

David

[Daniel Dick]

I'd be interested in learning which seats that you all have found to be the most
comfortable. I have an old Oxford unicycle that my grandparents bought for me
almost 29 years ago (gee that made me feel old suddenly :-) It's the only
unicycle I've ever had and I've been pretty happy with it. But the only seat I
liked was the one that I wrecked and thrashed while learning to ride it--almost
29 years ago...

The seat I liked was almost the same width from front to back--in fact it
was hard for most folks to tell the difference between the front and back of
the unicycle. I don't know if it was leather, but it was slick--that is it
didn't stick and rub your rear and inner thighs raw, and it wasn't hard on
the tail bone.

I'd *really* like to get hold of a seat like my old one...

Dan

[unifoss@CERF.NET]

>I'd be interested in learning which seats that you all have found to be the
>most comfortable. I have an old Oxford unicycle that my grandparents bought for
>me almost 29 years ago (gee that made me feel old suddenly :-) It's the only
>unicycle I've ever had and I've been pretty happy with it. But the
only
>seat I liked was the one that I wrecked and thrashed while learning to ride
>it--almost 29 years ago...
>
>The seat I liked was almost the same width from front to back--in fact it was
>hard for most folks to tell the difference between the front and back of the
>unicycle. I don't know if it was leather, but it was slick--that is it didn't
>stick and rub your rear and inner thighs raw, and it wasn't hard on
the
>tail bone.
>
>I'd *really* like to get hold of a seat like my old one...

I have a similar old Oxford uni. It has a hard seat, of a type I don't think you
can get anymore. However, you can get similar saddles, of a similar shape, from
the Unicycle Factory.

Call Tom Miller (317) 452-2692, in Kokomo, Indiana. He probably has the biggest
selection anywhere, and may even have a saddle like the one you used to use.

Caution. 29 years ago, your body may have been a different shape and age, and
that old saddle may not give you the same results today that it did then!

John Foss, President International Unicycling Federation unifoss@cerfnet.com