Wallriding

Try it out and tell us how it goes.

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Heh, ok... there's the slight problem for me of having to learn to ride
in a straight line / hop first though 🙁 I was just wondering if anyone
had done it or seen anyone do it before?

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I would try it, but I need to learn how to hop as well. 🙂

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my guess would be that its impossible because when you are on a uni you
dont have as much speed or momentum as on a skate board so you would
just fall off the wall. thats my guess but i could be wrong

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my guess would be that its impossible because when you are on a uni you
dont have as much speed or momentum as on a skate board so you would
just fall off the wall. thats my guess but i could be wrong

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I can wallride on my mountain bike, and you definately have plenty of
speed and momentum on a unicycle, the main part of doing a cycle
wallride is tire grip.

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I have attempted wall TAPS on my uni, but I havent gotten onto a
completely vertical surface yet. I have gotten them on close-to-vertical
walls. I see several problems with wallRIDING a uni though. (1. it would
be almost impossible to keep momentum thru the wallride (2. you would
either have to have an extreme angle while on the wall (greater than 45
degrees), or REALLY short cranks, to keep them from contacting the
surface. (3. it would be difficult to keep the tire from folding under,
unless it was at VERY high pressure, or VERY wide rim. wider than any I
have ever seen. If we could find ways to fix these things, I am positive
we willhave people like Dan Heaton and Adam Ryznar doing them in no
time.

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If you had a Coker Muni you'd have the speed and grip. Is that even
possible? Would it be possible to jump on something like that?

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I was just trying that on a MUni ride yesterday. It was on a rock face
that wasn't quite vertical, so it was doable. I'm not sure if it's
possible to do a meaningful wallride on a vertical wall, but it would be
cool to see that proved wrong. Meaningful in this case means getting
more than just a tap. I think even half a rotation would be
impressive.

Here's a pic of me from yesterday. I'm pretty sure I rode about 1 and
1/2 rotations on the wall. The real challenge was getting far enough on
the wall to miss the tree, which is about 4 feet in front of me in the
picture. I failed to miss it at least once🙂

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You all talk about not getting enough momentum, so here's my
solution...
1. Get one of those crazy Japanese freestyle riders.
2. Send them coasting full speed towards a wall.
3. Have them hop, turn 90 degrees, and lean severely to one side.
4. Watch those crazy freestyle riders work their magic down your wall.

Just a though,
Zac

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zactor29 said:

*You all talk about not getting enough momentum, so here's my
solution...
1. Get one of those crazy Japanese freestyle riders.
2. Send them coasting full speed towards a wall.
3. Have them hop, turn 90 degrees, and lean severely to one side.
4. Watch those crazy freestyle riders work their magic down your
wall.

Just a though,
Zac *

Perfect! Thank God we now have a way for everyone to learn how to do
that.

Actually, it could work. Through a bit of voo doo and skill.

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Adam Ryznar- stoped ages ago.
Tyre taps are possible!
ben

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heres what happened to me the last time i tryed to ride a wall,a very
slippery one too!

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good to see your getting use out of that sweet as helmet!
Ben

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I can sorta do what Dan Heaton did in U2 where you ride up the side of a
"bowl" and then just skid/slide down it without moving the pedals. I can
do what you might call tire "taps" by jumping on the side of a
completely vertical, oversided curb, so maybe if I slid down part of
that curb after I tapped that would be considered a "wallride", even
though my pedals wouldn't be moving.

Very rarely (VERY) I can be pedalling my coasting unicycle and hop up a
small curb while coasting on it, maybe something could be worked out
with a skilled rider on one of those.

I can almost pretty much ride on a slanted surface like Ben PS did in
the picture. But can't we all.....??? (NOT!!!)

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Wow your really good, why dont you make a video soon. I gotta see these
unispins and backwards grinds of yours. But how do you hop up a curb
while coasting.

Oh yeah, how long u been unicycling unipsychogirl

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I have been unicycling for like 8-10 years. And, just to let u know, I
AM in the process of filming a video/movie. It will be called
"One-Wheeled Women" and it the first EXtreme Unicycling movie to feature
mostly females.

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That is an amazing muni shot Ben! now that is what i call serious Muni!
cor bet that gets the adrenalin pumping :p

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