Other odd past-times

[michaeli]

Originally posted by AccordNSX
Riding with your the top of your feet pressing up against the bottom of the pedals amazes me! I wish I could find the link for the video

There's also a video of someone (perhaps a kindly reader can identify him?) riding with his feet under the pedals in 013.avi at ftp://ftp.unicyclist.com/Unicon11/.

Later,
Eli.

[unicycle_x]

Originally posted by peter.bier
Coasting while juggling 5 balls does amaze me because I know how hard it is to combine those two tricks and I have an inkling of how often I would have to practice to perfect that trick.

When you coast, how do you do it? Do you take off your pedals and put peggs on or what? Can some one please explain it to me?

-Budd-

On Sun, 4 May 2003 19:45:20 -0500, unicycle_x
<unicycle_x.mxkm0@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:

>When you coast, how do you do it? Do you take off your pedals
>and put peggs on or what? Can some one please explain it to me?

I can't coast but I've seen it being done. No pegs, just the standard
unicycle with pedals. Riding one-footed, put one foot on the crown,
then lift the other foot off the pedal and optionally place that foot
on the crown too.
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[unicycle_x]

I see. I saw a video of a guy standing on pegs to coast. Has anyone ever tried that?

-Budd-

unicycle_x wrote:
> I see. I saw a video of a guy standing on pegs to coast. Has anyone
> ever tried that?
>
> -Budd-

Know what an impossible wheel is?

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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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[Mandell]

Originally posted by Scott Kurland
Know what an impossible wheel is?

What Budd is suggesting is, I would think, harder than an impossible wheel because you now have two pivot points (the axle and the crown).

[treepotato]

unicyclists aren't wimps we don't need a safety wheel!

here's sum things i've 'attempted' or dreamed of doing on a uni...

~diaboling (don't say it's a kids toy it's not!)
~firebreathing
~poi
~carrying some one on yr shoulders
~ride wearing a straight jacket
~read a book
~wear a blindfold
~do the macarina

just a little list...

[Sofa]

I rode to Tim Horton's, got a Large Black coffee, and drank it while I rode home. I couldn't help but still ride down the stairs and hop up onto some low ledges, and one foot idle when I came to a stop light.

No body said anything this time...how odd.

A few days ago, i picked up 7 bags worth of groceries at the store. I rode my Coker there, but for some strange reason, I picked up a dozen eggs although I didn't need any...just to 'up the anti'

All my groceries made it home intact

[James_Potter]

I solved a Rubiks Cube while riding a unicycle.

On Wed, 14 May 2003 07:37:28 -0500, treepotato wrote:
> here's sum things i've 'attempted' or dreamed of doing on a uni...
>
> ~carrying some one on yr shoulders

Done that. Easy if they are small.

> ~wear a blindfold

Done that while winning a race. Also while riding into a car :-)

> ~do the macarina

That's just sick!

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Peter Haworth pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com
"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father"
-- Greg Norman

[onewheeldave]

treepotato said:-


here's sum things i've 'attempted' or dreamed of doing on a uni...

~diaboling (don't say it's a kids toy it's not!)
~firebreathing
~poi
~carrying some one on yr shoulders
~ride wearing a straight jacket
~read a book
~wear a blindfold
~do the macarina

just a little list...

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I would be wary of fire breathing on a uni cos I know of too many people who've spent serious time in hospital when their(non unicycling)fire breathing went wrong.
Unfortunately fire breathing looks spectacular and is fairly easy to learn, but if it goes wrong you can die, or worse.

[peter.bier]

Originally posted by Mandell


What Budd is suggesting is, I would think, harder than an impossible wheel because you now have two pivot points (the axle and the crown).

Max Dingemans from TCUC has a coasting unicycle with pegs. He rides it seat out in front style. Maybe Max will comment on the difficulty or otherwise of this trick?

[unicycle_x]

The peg idea is posible but hard, i have seen it on the net. I am thinking about making a free wheel uni. I can pedal frontwards and coast. But, ill use a handbrake to balence. Do you think this will work? This would be a very odd passtime.

-Budd-

[andrew_carter]

gliding while juggling clubs does not amaze me because I can do it. Ditto for juggling 5 balls while idling one footed.

Please tell me you've got some videos of that, and more to the point, please tell me you'll be at UniNats this year!

Max Dingemans from TCUC has a coasting unicycle with pegs. He rides it seat out in front style. Maybe Max will comment on the difficulty or otherwise of this trick?

Yeh, I'm interested in how impossible wheeling compares to this trick and how it compares to gliding and coasting.

I am thinking about making a free wheel uni. I can pedal frontwards and coast. But, ill use a handbrake to balence. Do you think this will work? This would be a very odd passtime.

I've heard that mentioned before but haven't really given it much thought. It'd be great fun and probably not too difficult with a little practice and some bike mono-ing experience. Maybe I'll make myself (or rather get it made) a giraffe with a freewheel. Would that be easier or harder to ride. I've heard that giraffes fall off balance slower. Good idea!

I saw a great sport on TV this morning - snow kayaking! There were two guys doing it and they were really good at it. They were doing drops and 180s and even twisting around (side flips?). Has 'ratherbekayaking' (sorry I don't know your name) tried this?

Andrew

[Max_Dingemans]

actually the peg thing isnt that bad, it's certainly better than coasting on a stock uni, if you can get started. the vid that some of you saw was probably here: http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/albuo09 Before injury i could now ride it and juggle with the seat near the ground. also I can juggle on a BC.