Unicycling habit: effect on your biking?

[steveyo]

How has your unicycling affected your bicycle habits?

Like most here, I've always biked, road and MTB. Biking was one of my primary exersize tools, and a means of transportation when feasible. Since I bought a uni and learned to ride (July 04) I have not biked recreationally once. For me unicycles have totally replaced bicycles for exersize and fun riding.

Unicycling has made me appreciate the transportation aspect of a bicycle even more than before, however. Just yesterday I ran a bunch of errands around town on my bike. Since my town is small and pretty flat, those errands took maybe less time than if I'd driven a car.

Wondering how y'all feel.

[harper]

I ride my bike when it's dark or rainy. I'm always surprised when autumn starts to roll around and I get on the bike to commute instead of using the Coker. It's so fast and easy but it's also so pedestrian. I no longer bike for recreation. Nothing beats a five mile commute on a Coker during which I ride curbs at 10mph part of the way. I never put my foot down when Coker commuting, I either idle, hop, or stillstand.

[terryb99]

I ride a bike to work every day, but I uni for fun every night after the sun goes down. When it gets cooler around here I'll ride the uni to work at least once a week.

[trials_uni]

i used to be total biker thats all...but the god shone a light one one of my wheels and i found my place...so now i use the bike for distance riding...but thats all gonna change when the coker comes in.....

[Checkernuts]

I actually started riding bikes alot more because of unicycling, When I started riding a unicycle I really only would ride my pos huffy if I really needed to, I would typically just walk or take public transport everywhere or even drive if it came to that.

After riding a unicycle for about a year I got more interested in seeing if my new found skills of riding would carry over to a bike. Thats when I purchased my first good bike. I started to learn how to ride wheeles (still suck at them) as well as throw down a bit at the local dirt jumps (suck at thoes too) After winter of doing that in the spring I purchased a road bike to get me around the city. I started riding that everywhere as it is much faster and more fun than sitting in traffic on the bus or in a car. While occasionally it did make me not want to unicycle as often, the two activities hardly prevented me from doing the other and actually made me apprciate both in different ways.

I'm actually looking at road bikes now while I'm in europe so if anyone has any recomendations on a good frame to look for (700usd max) let me know.

Mike

[uniracer]

i ride mountain bikes alot still(downhill and soon more trials when i get that mod bike) and i bmx alot too. the uni is more for the technical stuff(trials and some muni) than the distance stuff. i found the uni actually helped with my riding on 2 wheels because you have a diffrent sense of balance and for trials you ride diffrent too surprisingly i dunno jus my 2 cents

[LikeableRodent]

Almost all of my life takes place on campus, and I ride my unicycle practically everywhere I go.

Also, I no longer even own a bike.

[gerblefranklin]

I'm like Chex. Unicycling opened me to the idea of trials, etc. I ride a bike for transoportation, since bikes spank unicycles when you actually want to get anywhere. I'm also working on basic trials skills on a bike, since I figure they're useful. If I get somewhere early I love to just putz around hopping curbs and riding skinnies on my bike.

Still, though, I ride uni's for recreation, for lots of reasons, including that I'm infinitely better on a unicycle than i am on a bike, so there's lots more out there for me to ride.

[unidaddy]

Since getting re-hooked about a year ago, I've ridden a bike once (a rented mountain bike in Jackson Hole, WY). Since commuting isn't really an option from where I live, cokering and muni-ing have taken over my wheeled life.....happily so!

[abbabibble]

i no longer own a bike. or at least, i don't own one that isn't in pieces. my unis are the only way i get around other than my parents giving me rides.

[joemarshall]

I borrow a bike + panniers when I need to go to the bottle bank with a couple of months bottles. Or if I need to do a really large load of shopping. Oh and when I was injured too bad to ride the unicycles I used a bike for a couple of weeks. My own bike is currently 150 miles away and has been at my parent's since I got the unicycle.

If I don't need panniers, it's coker all the way. Especially in winter when it's dark and wet. Nothing beats riding a coker in the dark. The coker is the only getting myself places vehicle I own.

I used to ride bikes quite a lot, as I've never had a car, so always used bikes as transport. The coker has replaced a bike there. Every so often when I'm down at my parent's place I'll go out on a road ride just for a bit of a gravity fix though, I definately think you miss something if you never ride a bike and just dismiss them as being boring, I think it's especially true of road biking, where the speeds are just so different.

Joe

[James_Potter]

I never really biked very much, but now I unicycle a whole bunch. so I unicycle a lot more than I bike.

[GizmoDuck]

For some reason I can't seem to vote in the poll- but at the moment I'm biking more than unicycling. It goes through phases- right now I'm in a biking phase (in training for a 320km bike race), I expect to get back into a Uni phase later this year.

[john_childs]

Originally Posted by GizmoDuck

For some reason I can't seem to vote in the poll- but at the moment I'm biking more than unicycling. It goes through phases- right now I'm in a biking phase (in training for a 320km bike race), I expect to get back into a Uni phase later this year.

When you switch phases do you sore muscles right after the switch? Biking and unicycling use slightly different muscles in the leg and hard core uni training to hard core bike training would make normal people sore if they don't take it easy during the changeover.

[maestro8]

I only use a bike for transportation when time is of the essence... if I'm not in any hurry, I don't even think about biking.

I started mountain biking a couple years before I discovered the unicycle. I really enjoyed riding technical trails but I also hurt myself a lot. Once I started riding my muni I've never looked back.

Originally Posted by gerblefranklin

I'm infinitely better on a unicycle than i am on a bike

...so if you have basic biking skills, then being infinitely better on a unicycle means you can use it to levitate? backflip? shoot laser beams?