And I looked at what I can add to have free shipping. After I told my mum that they have unicycles she told me: “It will be f-ing awesome, buy it.”

So as responsible, grown up man I am now owner of unicycle.

(Here you can see how I tested the rack)

  • Evkob@lemmy.caM
    30·
    7 months ago

    As a fellow unicycle owner, the thing I hate the most about it is that I can’t find anywhere to practice riding it where I don’t feel like an attention whore.

    I mean I am an attention whore, but I don’t want to feel like it.

    • plactagonicOP
      9·
      7 months ago

      Only attention I got was guy saying that when I will need first aid kit I should shout so he can get to me.

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 months ago

        Thankfully I got to practice on mostly level, hard, compacted, slightly grassy driveway.So thankfully whenever I did fall, injuries were insignificant. At worst, a bruised knee or something minor.

        If anything, I’d say it’s more important that the terrain you practice on needs to be almost perfectly level, and absolutely no potholes or anything around.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      7 months ago

      Same, except I’m not an attention whore (or at least I don’t openly admit it).

      I would really like to unicycle to work, but that goes a bit too far down the attention-whore path (not to mention I work really far away).

    • Turun@feddit.de
      1·
      7 months ago

      The university near me offers a wild variety of sports, including unicycling. Maybe you have a similar sports institution nearby?

  • toynbee@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 months ago

    My then-sixtyish year old dad bought a unicycle. He also bought a pair of ski poles to help him balance while learning to ride it by traveling up and down a long hallway in his home.

    This doesn’t really add anything to the conversation, but I’ve always found it funny and rarely had an opportunity to share it.

    • plactagonicOP
      4·
      7 months ago

      Ski poles? It sounds dangerous I would impale myself with them.

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
        6·
        7 months ago

        I don’t think there was anyone around at the time who suggested that it was a good idea, heh.

        At the time, my mom - his wife of 27 years - had recently died and I think he was trying to find himself again. Unicycles with ski poles weren’t the only odd decisions he made.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 months ago

    Dangit, I’m jealous now, I want a unicycle!

    Do you know how to mount and ride it? I do, took me a good solid 2 months to learn though.

    • plactagonicOP
      4·
      7 months ago

      Didn’t had a clue but I will probably learn it. It doesn’t feel that difficult as I expected. So in few weeks I will be probably riding but mounting is difficult so I will leave it for later.

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 months ago

        Who TF steals a unicycle? Damn I hate to hear that.

        I learned on a 24", pretty sure that would be my preferred size if I ever get another one. Only reason I don’t have my old one is because it was manufactured in 1974, and I had absolutely no clue where to get replacement parts for it when the pedal crank mounts started gradually coming loose. The wedge bolt things that held it together were stripped out.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          7 months ago

          Eh, I got it for $50 and it worked to get me to learn, so I’m not too hung up on it. And I leant it to a coworker who was contracting with our org, and after the job ended, he didn’t reach out to return it (I didn’t either). It was kinda crappy, so whatever.

          That said, I’m casually in the market again. I’ll get a good one this time too.