seat drag/push glide/coast idea



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i was thinking while practising my seat drags if it would be possible to
put you feet onto the frame then either use you feeat to slow it down
or to just coast on the frma while do ing a seat drag/push
in short :possible or not


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yeah, wouldnt the pedals hit your your foot when your cranks are
spinning>?


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That ofcourse all depends on how far you're putting your feet forward. I
think crown-height would be pretty safe. You're putting LOADS of stress
on your seat/seatpost then though. You'd also NEED that little wheel in
your seat.


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you would have to stand up near the crown, and with that kind of
pressure on the uni/seat(even with a wheel) it seems like something
would break, im thinking that the seat might somehow break..if you
could figure it out, it would be way sick.


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Well I come up earlier with this idea. So my background of this trick do
"surf" on my uni from drag seat. But as some here figured out, the uni
stops immediately after putting more weight on the frame. Well, that
was around the time where I was happy about some meters of drag seat.
I'm doing this trick pretty stable by now, so I will give this trick a
try later on at the training.


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You have two things to overcome:

First is friction. Your feet will have to be at the crown or higher,
which will bring any normal-seated uni to an instant stop. As a
stopping skill, it could be pretty cool on its own but that's not why
we're here. If you added some sort of concealed wheels or casters, you
could overcome this. But make the wheels too obvious, and you stop
being a unicycle.

The second thing is instability of the platform. Once you get off the
pedals, you've lost your grip on keeping the cycle from flopping over.
You could flatten the end of the seat and/or use *two* wheels/casters
for this. Or some frame modifications that would give your feet enough
input to hold the wheel upright.


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