Hello,
First of all I'd like to show my gratitude to Andrew Carter for
providing those excellent building instructions at unycycle.2ya.com! I
built a few sandwich boards, a gapping bar and what's more important a
practice rail a few weeks ago. Last week I began practicing the rail,
and I've been working on it a few hours a day since. Today I went on a
muni ride, and the aid from my improvement balance was remarkable! I
have some nice deforestation areas with pretty rough terrain, lots of
mud, branches, drops and deep tracks from lumbering machines to ride in.
It's kind of hard to direct the wheel there, you pretty much have to
follow it where decides to go, slipping back and forth on branches and
in the mud. Anyway, it was A LOT easier to stay on the wheel today! I
managed to get through some truly dreadful sections that I hadn't got
through with less than two UPDs or so before! It's deer hunting season
here now and some fellow was watching me from his hide, it must have
looked kind of cool, and I felt really proud. Well, he was probably
mostly worried that I would frighten his prey, but I hope he was at
least a tiny bit astonished .. Or maybe he just thought I was
practicing for the circus, how would I know.
So my advice for any muni rider is to find/build a rail, practice it
avidly, and then get out there again and feel the difference! :-)
Oh.. by the way, I have already broken two sandwich boards, the wood
just splits, one split in the middle and then I rebuilt them with 5 cm
thick planks and then it split at the screws where the hinges are
instead. Maybe I need to reinforce them somehow. I was not even
dropping onto it, just hopping on it... The gapping bar was nice, maybe
I should build a few more of those. :-)
--
ulph - Trials Unicyclist Aspirant
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