Unicycle for children

[Fred Grange]

I'm an avid unicycler for 6 months, and I'm to become the proud father of a
little girl (the birth is supposed to happen anytime from now to mid-may). I'll
have to teach this little girl to ride. I would appreciate information on the
following points :
1. The good age to begin
2. Uni to use
3. Uni before the uni (we have in France a bizarre instrument, called
cyclo-rolls, made of 4 wheels and two parts on which you put your feet, on
which you're supposed to crank ; the sensation is somehow close to uni)
4. Hint, experience, forgotten point, etc. Please answer massivly, I told the
mother that I needed practice to teach the little girl, and therefore had to
go and ride 1/2 hour every evenning ! ;-)

Thanks.

Fred

[Robin]

My daughter who's just 8 is learning on a custom built 12 inch DM. See:
http://www.oakleypartners.demon.co.uk/onewheel.htm

I'm an avid unicycler for 6 months, and I'm to become the proud father of a
little girl (the birth is supposed to happen anytime from now to mid-may). I'll
have to teach this little girl to ride. I would appreciate information on the
following points :
1. The good age to begin
2. Uni to use
3. Uni before the uni (we have in France a bizarre instrument, called
cyclo-rolls, made of 4 wheels and two parts on which you put your feet, on
which you're supposed to crank ; the sensation is somehow close to uni)
4. Hint, experience, forgotten point, etc. Please answer massivly, I told the
mother that I needed practice to teach the little girl, and therefore had to
go and ride 1/2 hour every evenning ! ;-) Thanks. Fred

[Jock Young]

At 02:26 PM 4/28/98 +0100, you wrote:
>My daughter who's just 8 is learning on a custom built 12 inch DM. See:
>http://www.oakleypartners.demon.co.uk/onewheel.htm
>

My daughter, Sierra, started riding a 12.5" custom built uni by Tom Miller
just before her fourth birthday. She started practicing more than a couple
minutes at a time at about 4 years and 8 months. By her fifth birthday she was
going 50 meters.

>
>I'm an avid unicycler for 6 months, and I'm to become the proud father of a
>little girl (the birth is supposed to happen anytime from now to mid-may). I'll
>have to teach this little girl to ride. I would appreciate information on the
>following points :
>1. The good age to begin
>2. Uni to use
>3. Uni before the uni (we have in France a bizarre instrument, called
> cyclo-rolls, made of 4 wheels and two parts on which you put your feet, on
> which you're supposed to crank ; the sensation is somehow close to uni)
>4. Hint, experience, forgotten point, etc. Please answer massivly, I told the
> mother that I needed practice to teach the little girl, and therefore had to
> go and ride 1/2 hour every evenning ! ;-) Thanks. Fred
>
>

[Foss, JohnX]

Jock Young wrote:

>My daughter, Sierra, started riding a 12.5" custom built uni by Tom
Miller
>just before her fourth birthday. She started practicing more than a
couple
>minutes at a time at about 4 years and 8 months. By her fifth birthday
she
>was going 50 meters.

Jock forgot to mention that at age 8, Sierra won the women's division of the
Downhill Slalom race at the California Mountain Unicycle Weekend! See her
picture at: http://www.calweb.com/~unifoss/muni/97satpm.htm

Sorry there's still no captions! She's the little one, in the third picture.

John Foss