Do you swing?

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Unibrier

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2 April 2004, 13:32 UTC #1

We were are Brier Park tonight when I decided to try the
swing while on my Trials. At first I tried to lift myself
and the unicyle up but just ended up going over the seat.

Next I put the uni on the seat with the cranks horizontal,
put my left foot beside the tire, swung my right leg over
and put foot on the back pedal, then put left foot on
forward pedal.

It was actually quite stable, I got going and found it quite
fun. After a few cycles I even sat on the seat. Slowing down
and getting off was not quite as gracefull.

Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew I had seen this
before and after a little searching I found I had just
completed Number 24 of 'JF's Things Not To Do On A Unicycle'
(unicycling.comindex.htm), there was even
a puddle! (I know I've done number 3 too on a bad MUni bail)

Anybody else swing?

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UniBrier - Its Time to Ride

Steve DeKoekkoek ~ A one track mind in search of the never-ending sine
wave.

Sure you can walk the whole track, but then it's not MUni, its WUni. ~
Rowan regarding being hard-core.

Actually I think it's more of a WUni. ~ John Foss regarding Sponge Bob’s
water giraffe.

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Napalm

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2 April 2004, 13:33 UTC #2

I have also had a go on a swing on a unicycle but i ate dirt
when i tried to ride off it when it was closest to the ground-
a serious don't. But the worst playground incident i've had
was trying to ride off a spinning chunder roundabout
thinggo, one of things you sit on and get spun around untill
you fall off or get off and be sick. i never made it off the
death machine instead polaxed myself by crashing and then
getting thrown onto the hand rail things. This is not for
anyone to ever attempt again- i imagine even if you do make
it off you would have no balance to ride away from it. Well
this is my advice for the next generation of playground
unicyclist nutters, Mark

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Uniextreme

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2 April 2004, 13:33 UTC #3

Ive never ridden on that type of swing but I have ridden on
other playground things. At the local park there is a thing
that you hang on to and you go back and forth its medal and
you hang on to it and push off you stay at the same height
just go forward, that was pretty fun. I also have tried a
rope swing which is just a rope. I put it around my frame
and it kind of worked. I wish I had a better explanation for
the first thing. Brian

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