Re: cups?

with the downward force of most of our impacts, i think a cup would only
offer one more pinching surface, they are mostly designed for frontal
impacts.

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Welcome to our community 😄

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I suggest that you don't do drops.
(if you think your hitting to hard)

Not quit unicycleing.

I rarely get a impact like that, just riding around.

And ... if you think about your question,,, and have read the threads
already on this subject,,, you should be able to determine 'on your own'
,,, if a cup is going to work.

Afterall,, if you can't figure it out, just go buy one and try it.

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Try new pedals or shoes.

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It might be nice to have a cup area cut out of the seat so the boys have
a place to rest.

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When I do drops I either do them seat out, or keep the seat as tight as
possible to my butt, so even if I slipped of a pedal, this wouldn't hit
my groin but my butt.

Hope this helps

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My son rides his uni to karate practise wearing a strap and cup.
He mentions that the cup hurts just sitting and riding.

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you could just cut a tiny hole in ur nut sack and remove your balls and
keep them in a jar when ur unicycling then when you want to make kids
put then back in!! problem solved!!😉

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If your feet are slipping off the pedals on landing drops, get better
pedals with pins. You should be standing up off the seat to land a drop
- all your weight will be taken with your legs, not your bum.

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I've never worn a cup, so I don't have first-hand experience. But
wouldn't sitting on a cup be worse than the occational, rare,
nut-squash?

If your feet are slipping off the pedals, this is the area to
concentrate on. Though pinned pedals are more risky to the lower legs,
you need to find a balance that will keep your feet on. More experience
will help too, but that always comes as lousy advice when you're rolling
around on the ground... 🙄

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having played baseball for quite a while(13-ish years) i can say that
wearing a cup while unicycling is a bad idea. it'll just rub and pinch
and generally suck when you aren't missing a big drop. and even when it
"works" and you miss the big drop you naughty bits won't get hurt but
you'll crush all the flesh the edges of the cup is touching. In most
cases it hurts as bad or worse that a good shot to the rocks. in
baseball the cup is useful because the impact isn't going to be so great
that it'll really move the cup into you, at least most the time. but if
it wasn't there, occasionally it'd really suck.

shorter version: a cup is a waste of time. get better at unicycling.

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one simple awnser: S-I-F

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If you do aggressive riding while wearing briefs or boxers you are going
to get racked at some point when getting back on the saddle.

Wear snug fitting bike shorts (the black stretchy kind) or the tight
stretchy running shorts that are very similar to the bike shorts. The
bicycle shorts will have padding where you sit. The running shorts will
have no padding. The trick is that you want something snug fitting to
keep the goods in place. These shorts are worn next to the skin with no
underwear or jock underneath.

Those shorts will pretty much solve the problem. You can wear loose
shorts or pants over the shorts if you don't want to look like a
sausage.

Standard jocks have a big seam right where you sit on the saddle. That
would not be comfortable. Standard jocks will also cause some chafing.
There are specialized jocks that are used by dancers (Google for
dance-belt) and other specialized activities (look at 'International
Jock' (http://www.internationaljock.com/), careful NSFW). Someone a
while back was looking at trying a suspensory (check International Jock
to see what a suspensory is). I don't know how well any of those would
work. The bicycle shorts have been working well enough for me and the
bike shorts are good at preventing or minimizing chafing during long
rides.

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musketman said:

*you could just cut a tiny hole in ur nut sack and remove your balls
and keep them in a jar when ur unicycling then when you want to make
kids put then back in!! problem solved!!😉 *

if that don't work there is another simple opperation or you could just
put up with it, your choice :p

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Ditching your boxer shorts is the number one priority here. Wear some
type of support garment, but a cup is not going to be comfortable. I
rode my bicycle to baseball practice while wearing my cup sometimes, and
it was not comfortable. It got mighty painful the day I decided to
dismount off the back of the seat and the damn cup got hung up on the
seat. You don't want that to happen.

Hmmm... I actually find boxers very comfortable to ride in...

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I had trouble with boxers and tried some other things but I eventually
have decided the most comfortable ride is the one where you have the
most freedom. So I ride in boxers again.

Try doing your drops in the buff until you get better at them.

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Josie said:

*Try doing your drops in the buff until you get better at them. *

Can't I wear my shoes, at least? C'mon!

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unicycling is obviously better than a family. plus, if you don't want to
rack your nuts then stop unicycling. i mean seriously, it's a vehicle
that partially revolves around sitting on your perinium. chances are
sometime (if not regularly) you're going to face some testicle contact.
also wear bike shorts, a cup would probably add to the injury.

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oh yeah and tony is obviously right, get good pedals. i for one am an
advocate of oddyssey twisted pros. i don't like the pedals that usually
come with the uni.

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