BC or Coasting Which is Harder?

coasting is harder. for serious.

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Yep, Bc is actuly quite easy if ya ask me, the tricks are freakishly
hard...but still fun.

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BC is definitely not easy, but it's easy to see how it is easier than
coasting. With the BC your feet are right there near the axle, but when
(normal position) coasting your feet are much further away.

Also I imagine the readers here have much more experience riding BCs
than with coasting, so many respondants may be saying coasting is
harder because they don't know how to.

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johnfoss said:

Also I imagine the readers here have much more experience riding BCs
than with coasting, so many respondants may be saying coasting is
harder because they don't know how to.

Well it certainly is harder to learn, otherwise I could learn to coast
in a day. Learning to BC is perdy darn easy compared to *trying* to
learn to coast.

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huuuummm I want a BC !!!!

Why does Christmas isnt tomorrow?

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kapoute said:

huuuummm I want a BC !!!!

Why does Christmas isnt tomorrow?

What?

Anyway how much harder is it to learn on a bc with pegs(at axles) or
plates (below axles). I made one out of my front bmx wheel and put pegs
on it.

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I guess my english sucks that much

ok lets retry: I wish that Christmas could be tomorrow

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Spudman said:

Well it certainly is harder to learn, otherwise I could learn to coast
in a day. Learning to BC is perdy darn easy compared to *trying* to
learn to coast.

I learnt to coast in a day. Mind you, I could already glide
proficiently when I learnt. Assuming you do not already have a high
level of freestyle skill, I believe BC wheeling is much easier to pick
up.

To learn coasting it is helpful to use the following progression
-Learn one foot riding
-Learn wheel walk
-Learn one foot wheel walk
-Learn pull gliding
-Learn coasting (or possibly pull coasting first)

By contrast to learn BC wheeling you use the following progression
-learn to be pulled along (similar to pull coasting)
-learn to let go and coast by yourself

After watching half a dozen people start to get the hang of a BC wheel
in the space of one afternoon I think I am safe concluding that BC
wheeling is probably easier to pick up. In terms of skill level the
riders were all around level 4. Most of them could not glide or even
wheel walk, skills which take a long time to pick up and are almost
essential stepping stones to coasting on a normal unicycle.

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:p

kapoute said:

I guess my english sucks that much

ok lets retry: I wish that Christmas could be tomorrow

You got it right that time.

I could understand you the first time.

Your english doesn't suck.

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coasting was alot harder for me i lernd to ride my bc in a night and
coasting took two nights

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butternuts said:

coasting took two nights

word?

and kapoute i sucks at eglish too dont worry.

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butternuts said:

...coasting took two nights

And then you could coast controlled until you stopped rolling?
Now I wonder...

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Yeah I've spent longer trying to coast than BC wheel and I can't do
either but I'm still worse at coasting. Thanks to Peter Bier (the
coasting king!) and Tony for their patience (and bravery) with dragging
me around on the BC wheel, I really want one now, is there a record for
distance travelled? That would make some sweet camera footage if you
found a good line with enough slope through town!

Has anybody designed or made a BC wheel without the massive bolts that
stick out where you're supposed to stand? They gave me big bruises just
near the arch of my foot, it's like the 1st generation KH cranks with
nubs all over again.

note: wow, I've posted enough messages now to've done 1 a day for a
year!

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You could just cut the end of the nut off 🙂

Like this:
http://tinyurl.com/dckaq

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when your coasting, does the unicycle wobble alot?

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johnfoss said:

BC is definitely not easy, but it's easy to see how it is easier than
coasting. With the BC your feet are right there near the axle, but when
(normal position) coasting your feet are much further away.

yes, and so with BC your weight "hangs" below the ax (=more "stable"😉,
while with unicycling it "sits" on the seat (=less "stable"😉.
Corrections while 'BC'ing'
(http://unicyclist.org/cont/play.cfm?pi=w320240bc_ride) are almost only
made by the arc of your back,
corrections while unicycle-coasting are made both with your back, but
morely(depending per person?) by pushing/pulling the frame underneath
you (done with your feet). That is... for 'coasting feet-in'
(http://unicyclist.org/cont/play.cfm?pi=s320240coast2ft).
For 'coasting with feet out'
(http://unicyclist.org/cont/play.cfm?pi=s320240coast1ftc) counts the
same, but there your weigth is more being on the fork-crown, and even
below (the cat-tail-alike-functioning-leg which does the most of weight
moving in this case, in stead of your back).

So, (again) I think it's a wierd comparison of 3 different things.

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kapoute said:

huuuummm I want a BC !!!!

Why does Christmas isnt tomorrow?

I would say: "Why isn't Christmas tomorrow?" 🙂

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leo said:

For 'coasting with feet out'
(http://unicyclist.org/cont/play.cfm?pi=s320240coast1ftc) counts the
same, but there your weigth is more being on the fork-crown, and even
below (the cat-tail-alike-functioning-leg which does the most of weight
moving in this case, in stead of your back).

So, (again) I think it's a wierd comparison of 3 different things.

Woaw! you've lost me! What is coasting with feet out? sounds like a
good way to get hurt! as for the cat-tail-alike-functioning-leg, sounds
like a coded message!

any tips for those of us newbies who (gasp) can't even coast yet? I
started yesterday, and it didn't work very well!

As for those saying learning to bc is easy, keep it to yourselves! I
learned to coast a bc over a period of months when nobody around me
even knew that ultimates and bc's existed, and many people told me that
they should be impossible to ride, and I was bound to kill myself!

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jenmichael2000 said:

Woaw! you've lost me! What is coasting with feet out?

the same as "'coasting 1 leg extended'
(http://www.unicyclist.org/cont/standard_desc.cfm?39a)"

jenmichael2000 said:

sounds like a good way to get hurt! as for the
cat-tail-alike-functioning-leg, sounds like a coded message!

don't mix my signature and message.

jenmichael2000 said:

any tips for those of us newbies who (gasp) can't even coast yet? I
started yesterday, and it didn't work very well!

Well... spend more than one day on it.

Dunno.

As coasting is the only skill where you dont control your speed...
you'll have to adjust the position of the uni and your body.

Don't go too fast, no need for it, will only make it scared.

Don't make praying-muslim-movents, but only move your arm horizontal
(like swimming, but then with arms straight).

Look forward, into the horizon.

As I asume you coast with both feet in, squeeze you knees (tight, but
without hurting yourself) under the seat, so the uni becomes an
extension of your hips.

Don!t hold your breath, relax all of your muscles (except the ones you
really use).

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