ultimate wheel help :-)

kristopher_peck wrote:
some tips:

1. Sand the tread off the sides of the tires.
2. put vertical tabs on the end of each pedal to prevent foot slippage
3. wear leg protection.
4. use a shoe or boot with a heel. keeping your feet on a UW is much
harder than a regular cycle

the wheel sort of centers itself after a while. it's neat.



I've started working on my UW skills again, using the regular unicycle
wheel type of UW. I think I'm doing ok, but I still have a couple of
questions.

Is seat drag much easier than UW?
In the past seat drag practice have cost me broken seat posts when I
fell on top of the uni, so I'd rather learn UW first and then seat
drag. That is, unless it is much harder that way.

How does one put a vertical tab on the end of a pedal?
I could probably figure something out, but if there's a well tested way
to do it, I might as well do it the same way.

How long does it take before the wheel centers itself?
Right now I rarely go more than 1½ revolutions without the tire rubbing
against my leg.


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i heard somewhere that a plain uni wheel with the frame taken off was
pawned the "Incredible wheel..."


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Great advice from Kris Peck. I would add something the Pecks might not
think of, because they like to ride rough terrain:

Shorter cranks.

I'm not an expert on ultimate wheeling, but I'm pretty sure shorter
cranks will help you get the thing rolling better.

And when the going gets tough, remember George and Kristopher Peck do
it with long cranks on snow, ice, mud, rocks, etc.

And don't forget to use the search. Things like "how to ride an UW"
must have been covered many times before.


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The search feature is great. That's how i found Kristophers post. There
are a number of threads about ultimate wheels, but this was one of the
rare occations where I didn't find my answers there.


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