Saddle height

Howdy!

As stated yesterday, I cut about 3" off my seatpost when I got it. 1
week later I cut another inch off, and then at BUC two weeks after that
I cut another inch off.

I went from 127's on a 20" to the big onza and it did take ages to get
used to. I had been unicycling for 3 weeks before I got it and it took
2 days to be able to do everything I could on the 20", on the 24".
Seriously different machines.

I'v had it for over a year and when I go out on it I feel that the seat
could go up a bit now!

You'll get used to it!

T.

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totally_hooked said:

*I've set it up according to the normal advice i.e. leg slightly bent
when my heel is on the pedal at the bottom of the downstroke.*

A good starting point for MUni is about 1.5" - 2.0" shorter than this.

That advice is for road and freestyle.

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Thanks U-turn,

I'll get out the drill, hacksaw and needle files when I get home.

Hooked

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As I've said before, unicyles are not designed for those of us with
shorter-than-avarage legs.
Cathy
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is. If I could, I would.

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Wow.....Wow...WOw....WOW!

I chopped another 30mm off of the frame, although it turned out that I
only needed to go about 20mm further to get comfy.

I took it out to the patch where I learned to uni - a kind of car
park/parkland with some pot-holed roads and paths compromised by
tree-roots.

The first hour or so was so frustrating. I couldn't freemount, it felt
like the machine was trying to pitch me off the front all the time and I
was having a heck of a job moving my feet on the pedals because of the
long pins.

Believe me I was getting -very- cheesed off with myself, the muni, and
everyone who encouraged me to get one. I even got so frustrated that it
went into the bushes (softly - I didn't want to damage the plant life
🙂) at least once!

And then, following the unicyclists mantra of "never give up", I finally
started relaxing.
It was FANTASTIC. All of the stress inducing holes and lumps that
bothered me on the 20" just disappeared and I was tearing around. I even
started to ride onto the grass and really rough areas of broken
tarmac.

I know that this kind of stuff is considered childsplay to many on this
forum, but to me it was a revelation.

Today the park, tomorrow Snowden!

Happy riding and thanks for the encouragement.

Hooked

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That's cool, hooked! If it ain't fun, why do it!

I'm blown away by the skill of some of you folks, and get bummed knowing
I'll NEVER be that good no matter how much I practice.

But then, last night, I was practicing riding backwards, and as I got
longer and longer rides before falling, I felt like a kid learning to
ride all over again!

Today, 30 feet backwards, tomorrow... a 360 hop off a stack of palettes
into a backwards one footed wheel walk!

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Yeah, MUni is really frustrating at first. I used to think of it as
"mounting practice".

Good riding!

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paul_g said:

*
Today, 30 feet backwards, tomorrow... a 360 hop off a stack of
palettes into a backwards one footed wheel walk! *

You learn much faster than me.🙂

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