Unicycles are awesome.

[Vijil]

Because only losers need a training wheel. Just saying. Those who know me know that my second hobby is unicycling. This is a video from a sweet club in Germany somewhere :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkqZzAknlNI

I guess uni is to bicycling what pump is to ramping. Like... if a pump took a month to learn to shoot one ball and you had to cock, pump, breech load, degass and regass it every time you wanted to shoot.

[Mr Vengeance]

Cool. I like the white tyres indoors on the marble floor very considerate. Some handling advantages over mobility scooters. But some skills
needed to get them going properly. More fun than a fixy?

[holdfasthope]

Personally, I think 2 wheels trumps one every time -
http://www.youtube.com/embed/A2LTVhqHAdo

(Not sure how to embed :D)

[staticman]

Flatland For the win

[Vijil]

Flatland is awesome and I used to want to do it, but you hijacked my thread (big no no) so I'm not going to show you how to embed :p . As far as balance goes the wider weight distribution of a bicycle actually makes it much easier to balance on one wheel than it is to ride a uni. Like walking a tightrope with a pole vs slacklining.

Mr V, I honestly don't understand the appeal of fixies in the first place so couldn't say.

Personally I think unicycle requires more skill all round even if it's not as fun to watch. Kinda like pump in some ways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIOfsbSOs6Y

[EmeryZ]

Looks fun! But I rather 2 wheels, I like getting speed on single track on a mountain bike :D

[holdfasthope]

I would never doubt the skill it takes to ride a unicycle, I've tried it before... I might have figured it out one day - if I could have figured out how to not sit on my balls first

[Vijil]

yeah it does take a while to get the gonad positioning right. The worst injury I've seen on a uni was a guy who did about a 2 metre drop and popped his left one on landing. Not nice.

I like the speed of MTB as well :) - but there's something addictive about uni I can't quite explain right. Maybe it's because every individual bump on the track is a challenge. There's room for both anyways :)