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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  that’s very true, I’m not the best at free mounting and often bail 3 or 4 times before I actually get going.
  what happened that made me actually fall and not just bail is that the road was at an angle and I had my psi a bit too high so it kinda popped out from under me.
  I caught myself with my hands, scraped one of them and sprained the other. Also scraped my knee too. I used to have wrist braces but I lost them when I moved and haven’t used it regularly enough to get new ones. I probably will now 😅

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I saw someone yesterday with a big wheel who I was sure was about to bail. He was unicycling down a pretty steep street. He managed to make it down the street and turn the corner, but it looked like a real struggle.

    I know from riding a fixie that for streets that aren’t too steep it’s not hard, you just have to effectively “pedal backwards”, allowing slowing the pedals down as they come up behind you. But, I don’t know what a unicyclist can do on a very steep street. What I would do on a fixie doesn’t work because it requires small skid-stops, which means you need a front wheel.

    What would you do on a steep hill? I assume that by the time you realize it’s too steep you’re already going pretty fast, so just bailing would be difficult.

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    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What would you do on a steep hill?

      to be honest I would probably just fall 😭 i live in Florida which does not have a lot of elevation variety so I luckily don’t have to deal with that problem as much. I know on the REALLY big ones or ones for off road use (which look sick btw) they have a brake handle on the front

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Hmm, ok. I thought there was some trick to learn. A brake almost feels like it’s cheating. You’re right though, it looks cool.

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