Intro - Learning to ride

Thank you all for your replies and advice.

The turning thing... yeah, I need some work there.

On my second extended practice session, I rode 300 feet plus many
shorter rides & practiced free-mounting (SO close.). Then my wheel got
trashed (someone tried to jump over my uni on their uni, and landed on
my wheel instead) and now it's a P.O.S. I will be getting at least one
new uni out of it, though, so maybe that's OK.

Only problem with this uni thing is that it gives me one more thing to
obsess/daydream about when I should be working.


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So the obsession thing seems to be a common motif running through many
of the threads on this forum.

I like to class myself as a serial compulsiven obsessive. So I focus
without distraction on one thing for a long time, then for some weird
reason I choose something else - family history, Triumph Heralds,
unicycles...

I rode down my street tonight (after dark) and suddenly felt that I
needed a larger wheel. Is this the start of buying many more unis?

Zuni you're doing great. Keep up the good work!


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s7ev0 wrote:
*So the obsession thing seems to be a common motif running through
many of the threads on this forum.*
I prefer the term "Healthy Interest".

s7ev0 wrote:
*I rode down my street tonight (after dark) and suddenly felt that I
needed a larger wheel. Is this the start of buying many more unis?*
Probably. Are you a smoker? I have never smoked, and justify MANY
"me" purchases by spending what I've saved by not smoking a pack a day
since I was 13.

Anyway - congratulations zuni! Keep on going, it can only get better
from here, but watch out for those ballistic UPDs.

Jayne


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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:56:47 -0500, "harper" wrote:

I'm surprised Klaas Bil isn't clamoring for your statistics.

So many reasons:

Most of zuni's data are already given in this thread. Not her age but
I plan to check her profile for that. I've got this idea that she is
16, maybe from another thread - may be wrong but I'll check anyway
when the time comes.

The gateway to the newsgroup was down for almost a week so I didn't
catch this until now.

I don't do requests for data right now. I'm sitting on a lot of
"additional" data and still have to do the second round of processing.

Did I ever "clamour" for statistics in the first place? Let alone
"clamor" :-)

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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zuni wrote:
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OK, I've got a long ways to go (being able to turn - intentionally-
would be a plus), but I'm certainly closer to being a rider than I was
this morning. Glad to join this forum, lots of inspiration here.

Cheers,
Araz *


I have seen this girl ride and she's incredible. She's 25-30 hours into
riding and has

1.) Ridden 4 different unicycles
2.) Freemounted 3 different unicycles
3.) Gone on a 5 mile ride (with lots of falls and rests)
4.) Ridden a MUni with a 24" Fireball tire off road AND freemounted it
uphill AND downhill
5.) Gone through an entire 3 hour riding session with only one assisted
mount.
6.) Turned both directions at will
7.) Ridden precariously close to the Stanley Park seawall.

Consider all of that AND she's a flashy dresser. I think the accelerated
learning progress is due to the fact that she has had engineering
discussions with Steve Howard and has ridden with Kris Holm and given
him some UW tips and gotten some riding tips from him. Or perhaps it's
determination.


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zuni wrote:
*Here's my history - I had become quite accomplished at riding around
a parking lot holding my boyfriend's hand. But my learning curve
plateaued there; I couldn't progress. He finally suggested I try
launching myself off of a stationary object. So today I took his
advice, and made huge progress. I went WAY further today, and was WAY
more consistent in my efforts.*

Congratulations Araz...what a great story! It's true that sometimes you
do better on your own. I see some parallels here... There's this guy in
our local riding club that's always trying to give us little riding
tips, such as telling us our shoelace is untied when we're spinning at
top speed on a Coker. We've finally learned that it's best to ignore
his "help" and strike out on our own. Sounds like you've figured out the
same...

See you down the one wheel trail...

Tom


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Greg & Tom -

Thanks for your encouragement. Unicycling is way fun, and I'm pleased
with my progress. Hope to be able to attend one of the West Coast MUni
weekends in 2005. In the meantime, I need to learn to idle, hop, and
ride longer distances.

zuni.


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