Unicycling habit: effect on your biking?

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Question: How has unicycling affected your biking?


- Uni's rule, bikes drool - I never bike
- Uni is 100% of my recreational riding, but I love to bike for
transport
- I unicycle more, but I still bike for recreation, too
- I uni and I bike for recreation in equal amts
- "I bike more than I uni." or "I only bike, just here for giggles."
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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.....


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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


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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


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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.


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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.


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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!


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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.


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