The tall unicycle

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:04:58 -0500, peter.bier
<peter.bier.cuhbd@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:

>To eliminate the fear factor I recommend the same approach stilt walkers
>use. ie the first thing to learn is falling off. I now teach people to
>dismount both forwards and backwards off a giraffe as soon as possible.
>Once you realise that it is easy to dismount safely you become a lot
>less worried about being so "high up in the air".

That is very good advice. My first few rides on the giraffe were
holding an instructors hand, and he instructed me to fall off forward
in one or two rides (just stop pedaling), and then backward (after
riding again - duh).

Once you have felt that dismounting this way (both ways, really) is
very much controllable, you feel almost at ease up there.

Klaas Bil

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