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Extreme unicyclingVideo: Extreme unicycling
Hold on to your saddles.
We've just spotted this video of some extreme unicycling, or Einrad downhill, as the Germans rather more nonchalantly term it.
In some pretty impressive displays of balance and control this compilation gives you a sample of just what these unicycling daredevils get up to in the woods.
So, sit back, and watch some skilled unicyclists tear it up in style, using one arm for balance, like a cat uses its tail. And in case you're wondering, they're fitted with disc brakes.
Want to give it a try? There's a WikiHow page for that. Don't worry, it starts with the basics. After that, it's all downhill.
I'll get my coat.
Laura Laker is a freelance journalist with more than a decade’s experience covering cycling, walking and wheeling (and other means of transport). Beginning her career with road.cc, Laura has also written for national and specialist titles of all stripes. One part of the popular Streets Ahead podcast, she sometimes appears as a talking head on TV and radio, and in real life at conferences and festivals. She is also the author of Potholes and Pavements: a Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network.
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- don simon fbpe 1 hour 26 min ago
Poor decision for Eurosport to repeatedly show the crash before knowing the outcome. Not cool.
- Daclu Trelub 1 hour 37 min ago
In a perfect world, we'd have a measure of how easily distracted someone is, as part of their driving test....
- Sredlums 2 hours 4 min ago
These products are nothing but ridiculously expensive and superfluous, and they bring nothing but bragging rights....
- HollisJ 2 hours 6 min ago
As a bystander in all this, it seems to me that the only person trying to win imaginary internet points in this is you....
- Daclu Trelub 2 hours 20 min ago
How does Mr Lucy tell you he's a bit of an arsehole without telling you he's a bit of an arsehole?
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Of course they are, and not so different. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09B662CDN?crid=34M42BETAMFT0&th=1 The bugger's got four versions up now!
- squidgy 2 hours 41 min ago
At least the van driver was nowhere near the stationary cyclist.
- OldRidgeback 2 hours 44 min ago
The BMX racers are also no longer being supported. Kye Whyte said he's lost his GT sponsorship. It also looks like GT will no longer make BMX bikes.
- hawkinspeter 3 hours 33 min ago
The people causing traffic jams complaining about the traffic jams
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This sort of thing has been happening in Scotland for years, check out Alan Hogan unicycling down Ben Wyvis, or the Highland Unicycle Group, or the Voodoo Unicycles Highland Tour...
Chatting to folk on Zwift the other day and a couple of guys from the US were talking about the "uni-wheeled" categories at the CX event they were racing in, sounded like there were some proper serious competitors in there too... huzzah, up with this sort of thing !
10 points...
Interesting that they are fitted with brakes... You'd think that the "skill" of the rider would be in keeping control of the unicycle with their pedalling abilities...