Girafe

Freemounting a giraffe is quite hard. The way I have been taught to do
it is as follows:

*Wedge your foot that you don't mount with first between the frame and
the tire.
*Next, bring your free foot to the pedal on its side.
*After that, quickly bring the foot that was previously wedged between
the frame and tire to the other pedal.
*Idle until you can put the seat under you.
*After the seat is under you, continue riding.

It takes a lot of practice, but it looks good once you get it.

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digitalattrition said:

*Idle until you can put the seat under you.

Personally I can't freemount a giraffe, but I doubt that the bit
quoted above is recommended practice. Search the forum for giraffe and
freemount and I think you will see that you put the seat under you as
part of the mount, without prior idling. Anything seat-out is
difficult on a giraffe!

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OK, maybe I phrased that wrong.

I mean that you need to keep your balance up until you can get the seat
under you. Idling just seemed to help me. Also, the other guys that I
have seen freemount a giraffe have done this (I learned it from a stage
performer named Larry Vee).

Clear as mud? :p

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There is a good video tutorial on how to mount giraffes on
www.unicycle.2ya.com - on the miscellaneous page. These should help, I
hope they do.

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The only freemount I can do on a giraffe is a rolling mount. For a
video, look in my gallery below. I just hope the gallery is working 🙁

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The tutorial on www.unicycle.2ya.com that Peter mentioned before is for
mounting a 5' giraffe. From what I gather, the best way to 'step up'
mount a 6'er is to wedge on foot against the frame and on top of the
tyre, then do what's shown in the video. You can rolling mount a 6'er
too but apparently it's quite a bit harder.

Have a go at one foot idling on your giraffe. That's the first 'trick'
I learned on mine. I actually find it easier on a giraffe to do it (and
idling in general) smoother and with a smaller footprint because, being
a lot higher, it takes so much longer for the thing to lose balance.

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Quoted message said:

Right now the Landing are my first precocupation. It is something else
to dismount when you are rifing on top of a 6 feet pole monted on a
wheel.... My contact with the ground are more crashes than merly just
stepping down.

Thanks for any info.

ED😄

I am in a similar situation, recently getting a giraffe (a Torker 5ft.) a
few weeks ago. It has taken me quite a few attempts, but I have finally
gotten a few successful mounts. The technique that works best for me is
the side mount. I put the left pedal down, right foot on the tire. Step up
quickly, once the left foot is on the left pedal, it becomes a regular
side mount. I tried this after watching the tall unicycle section of the
video "One Wheel No Limit".

For me my first attempts were failures because I was not comfortable
riding the thing in the first place. After a few hours of ladder mount
riding, I am able to at least get in the seat most free mount attempts.
My success rate is about 2/10.

Check out this link to free mounting a 9 footer.
http://tinyurl.com/6cl4p

pictures for the 9 footer mount
http://www.unicycling.org/unicycling/gmount/giraffe_mount.jpg

thread about giraffe dismounts
http://tinyurl.com/4293z

Brad