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  1. Original post
    UniBrier
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    I don’t know if it was timing, perseverance, or just plain luck but
    after several half-hearted attempts over the past years to ride one of
    the three ultimate wheels in my garage (that I store for our club) I
    finally strapped on my 661’s and took the 24” to practice last week. By
    the end of practice I could free-mount and ride across the gym. It
    wasn’t necessarily pretty, but successful. The leg protection made a
    big difference in sticking to it.

    At this week’s practice I tried the 26”, 24”, and 20” with fairly good
    success on mounting, riding, and some turning.

    Not race-ready yet but always good to reach another uni-milestone.

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    Steve

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    “If something is to hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just
    stick that guitar in the closet next to your
    shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go
    inside and watch TV.” – Homer
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  2. S_Wallis
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    Steve,

    Congrats on the UW success. The leg protection does make a big
    difference, although I guess if you are good at it the leg drag becomes
    less of a problem. I occasionally make a run where the tire hardly
    touches my leg, but that is rare.
    I don't know why I don't ride mine more. I always think of what a
    great workout it is and what good training for pedal-pressure control,
    but seldom get it out and ride it. I should set a weekly goal.

    Scott

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  3. kington99
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    Hey Scott, any chance i get a free handle in exchange for you using my
    quote? 🙂

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  4. S_Wallis
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    kington99 said:

    Hey Scott, any chance i get a free handle in exchange for you using my
    quote? 🙂

    We'll talk. The answer will be no, but we'll talk.😉 It was a good
    comeback. 'Summers video thread'
    (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44036) You will
    have to settle for just being famous.

    Steve, are the UW's spoked or solid disks, or some of both? I sure
    think the heavy solid disk versions are easier, once you get them
    rolling.

    Scott

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  5. john_childs
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    I saw Steve. He was riding them all the way across the gym.

    I have yet to even try the 20" UW. At this point Steve has more UW
    experience than I do. Not to mention the fact that he graduated from
    the UW (University of Washington).

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  6. UniBrier
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    S_Wallis said:

    Steve, are the UW's spoked or solid disks, or some of both? I sure think
    the heavy solid disk versions are easier, once you get them rolling.

    The 20 is the UDC solid metal disc with "unicycle.com" cut into it.

    The 24 is the four "spoke" Yuni sold by UDC.

    The 26 is an old solid 3/4" plywood disc.

    Seems the larger, the easier.

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  7. VersatileWhale
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    STEVE-
    This is Eric. Remember me from my project?? Sorry i never came back to
    the meetings but School soccer started an i had games every tuesday.
    Anyways i'm out in Montana now and i thought i'd drop you a line
    thanking you and bruce and John for helping to level four. Are you
    guys doing that Belle Square parade on thanksgiving weekend? because
    i'll be home then and it would be awesome to meet up with you guys and
    do that parade.
    Take care,
    Eric

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  8. UniBrier
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    VersatileWhale said:

    STEVE-
    This is Eric. Remember me from my project??

    Good to hear from you. I haven't been on line as much lately and didn't
    make the connection that you were VersatileWhale.

    Great you're still riding. I'm sure you'll get to level 5 before Bruce
    and me.

    Haven't heard about Bell Square yet.

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  9. UniBrier
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    I though I heard someone say "pictures please".

    The obligatory unicycles-against-the-garage-door pic:

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  10. Brian MacKenzie
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    UniBrier said:

    The 20 is the UDC solid metal disc with "unicycle.com" cut into it.

    The 24 is the four "spoke" Yuni sold by UDC.

    The 26 is an old solid 3/4" plywood disc.

    Seems the larger, the easier.

    The 36" is much easier than the 24" (except you start going very very
    fast)

    The 45" (or so) I tried in Ottawa was much harder. (however, i only
    spent about an hour with it)

    And congrats on learning to ride it!

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