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6 footers arent much hareder than 5, they're just scarier, and scarier
to jump/step off of, but it doesnt all hurt that much more to jump off a
6foot. Unless your going fast or land hard or crash or something.

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get the 6 ft, they are way cooler. 5ft is just too short.

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get the 6foot. On the 6 foot your feet are only three feet off the
ground.

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halfbike said:

*get the 6foot. On the 6 foot your feet are only three feet off the
ground. *

and on the five foot are they 2 feet or 3 feet away from the ground

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KcTheAcy said:

*get the 6 ft, they are way cooler. 5ft is just too short. *

Yes.

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are these savages a good quality unicyle
i had a 20" savage that i tore to hell as a begginer, ive looked at my
old uni now and the savage seat is straigt(????)

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Here is a picture of the Savage giraffe from UDC.

This is the first time I've ever ridden a giraffe, though I think I sat
on on one when I was about 16 (nearly 30 years ago). I can't vouch for
the quality, but it seems like a good learners giraffe in any case. It
took a little more gall than I expected to get launched, but after that
it was pretty much like any other unicycle, except that it's perched
atop a pogo stick.

The axel bolts weren't tight enough, and that caused me to fall a couple
times when the wheel slipped. It was very disconcerting, but not fatal.
I did have one nearly nasty fall on my hip on the road because of the
slippage. Naja, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. (I still
don't understand exactly what slipped. I'd appreciate any insight.)

There are a few more pictures in the 'Munipsycho photo gallery'
(http://www.munipsycho.com/gallery.jsp). My seven year old daughter
snapped a particularly flattering photo of the bottom of my foot. <grin>
Dad's keep such things.

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Too rainy to ride huh. Wimp.😉

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bugman said:

*Too rainy to ride huh. Wimp.😉 *

Hey, it was slippery riding that thing on the steep hill in front of my
house. Very dangerous. Once I spun out riding over a wet stick on the
uphill.

Just the same, I'll have to check my email to see who *really* bailed.
😎

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I finally scrambled onto mine yesterday. Everybody's told me it's just
as easy as regualr unicycling, but I did not find it so. It was like
learning to ride all over again. I still can't ride it.

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*I finally scrambled onto mine yesterday. Everybody's told me it's
just as easy as regualr unicycling, but I did not find it so. It was
like learning to ride all over again. I still can't ride it. *

I've had mine for over a week and I just got up on it today. I find
that once I'm riding it, it is about the same as a regular unicycle, but
getting started was quite daunting. (Although I went out at dusk today
and it felt like I was on acid or something -- very surreal.)

The hardest part was successfully moving away from my launch pad - the
bumper of my Expedition.

Someone in another thread said he learned to free mount on the second
day. I hate that guy.

Try again -- but not at dusk -- and you'll nail it for sure. Just choose
to ride!

Good luck!

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*
Someone in another thread said he learned to free mount on the second
day. I hate that guy.
*

That was me! *ducks*

Although I only have a five-footer, and I put the seat down really low
to do it, AND I'd already watched the video on unicycle.2ya.com that
shows a guy freemounting a giraffe. I watched it a lot. 😄

After probably 10 or 20 tries I finally managed to get the seat under me
and my foot on the pedal. Replicating it has since been a bit of a
challenge, and I've been finding it easier on a downhill.

I also rode it around for about an hour and did some idling, and
experimented with how tightly I could turn, and some backwards riding
before I tried freemounting, and I think that gave me a sense of what to
expect when I tried it without a curb or a stepladder.

And one last thing - I rested the wheel up against a curb (although I
guess a block of wood, stairs, or anything else that will keep the wheel
still while you hop up will do), and put the pedals horizontal, then
stepped onto the back one, up, and away!

I guess the real trick is to just ignore the fact that you're trying to
climb up a moving object, and just pretend you're balanced. You've got
probably a whole second before the beast comes tumbling down to get
yourself on top, so doing it quickly, and believing you can do it helps
quite a bit! Kinda like normal freemounting I guess.

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*That was me! *ducks*
<snip>
-dave *

Dave, it'll be hard to duck from up on that giraffe. 😉

Thanks for the encouragement. I watched that video as well. I'm unable
get my foot up on the pedal for the climbing mount. Maybe if I keep
stretching. I like the curb idea though. I keep toying with the
rolling mount, but I'm not quite ready. I'll keep trying. I can't
take my Expedition everywhere I ride, so something's gotta give. I
think you are probably right: There's a pretty large psychological
component to the various aspects of this giraffe thing that I'll have to
overcome. We just need to ignore the extra 5 or 6 feet between the seat
and the concrete. And choose to ride.

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be careful if you're doing a rolling mount! Those can bend the giraffe
pretty easily, and that's never fun.

Also posting to say two things I learned today - one is that if I get
up, put the seat under me, and then put my foot on the pedal, I usually
ride away from the mount.

And two is that spins are really really easy to do once you get up the
nerve to do them 😄

Someday I'm going to put a 2:1 gearing on the beast and see where that
takes me. Giraffes are amazing.

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Quoted message said:

That was me! *ducks*

Also me. And the two days were two weeks apart. I think the giraffe I
freemounted was only a five-footer though, which is obviously a lot
easier than a six-footer. The method I used was to put my left foot on
the wheel, then my right foot on the pedal, then stand up and swing my
left leg around in front of the seat. Before working on this mount on a
giraffe, you should probably be comfortable doing the side mount on a
regular unicycle. Another thing to try before actually working on
free-mounting is to do the climb-up mount as quickly as possible, but
while holding onto a support with one hand.

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Yea, giraffes seem pretty flimsy to me. I think I've seen a movie of
Evan Byrne doing a 180 hop-twist on his, and I was amazed that it didn't
bust in half! There was even a slomo version of it, and I could have
sworn I saw it bent a little bit. He did it on a Torker TX.

I've never really tried many tricks nor freemounting on my giraffe. I
think the only things I can do on it are idling, backwards, and a rather
short spin. Speaking of giraffe spins, watch out because when I tried
it the first time, I fell off to the side because of all the
gravitational pull. That combined with the spinning motion was not
pretty; I came VERY close to giving my ankle a nice twist fracture.

So is the Torker TX stronger than those others? When I got my giraffe I
went for the cheapest one that wasn't a Savage. I didn't want to spend
hundreds on a Miyata when all I was going to use it for was to ride
around in performances and possibly learn a few simple tricks. It's
definitely fitted my simple needs so far! What is really nice (and
comforting) is that I've never had any technical problems at all like
slipping or the chain breaking.

Whew, I can't believe I sat here and typed this when I should be typing
my summary for reading class. OOPS!!! Well, bye for now.

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ICP8456 said:

*how much more difficlut is a 6ft than a 5ft*

1ft more difficult
this is relevant when u're freemounting
the upside is that u get a machine that's just that crucial bit taller
than the average crowd-height and as a result, more eye-catching and
more affective when working in crowds or parades

i have a 5 and i wish i had a 6

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