How to make your unicycle ride less tiring... for people with limited stamina.

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My usual bicycle rides is about 6 hours. It is a typical leisure ride with many rest stops. I lack stamina but cycling has the benefits of multiple gears and coasting capability. I can pace myself through coasting and paddling thus avoiding using too much strength. I can ride half the island on each ride!

But I get tired quickly when riding the unicycle. My typical unicycle ride is only about 2 hours. Can't ride too far.

In order to ride longer on my unicycle, I have to find ways to make riding less tiring.

Here are a few methods that I personally find effective and practical.

1. Sit in a relax manner and put most of your body weight on the seats/paddle while riding. In the past when I was learning to ride, I will tend to 'stand' on the paddle (to try to balance the body) and put most of my body weight on my legs, as a result my thighs will get tired quickly. So, try to shift your body weight from your legs to your bum.
2. Adjust your seat heights so that you can extend your legs fully while paddling. I learn this from my bicycle rides.
3. Pump your tyre to near max. psi indicated on your tyre. If the tyre is flat, the unicycle tyre will feel heavy and unwilling to roll and very tiring to ride. If you pump to max. the tyre will roll easily and you need lots of stamina to keep up with the increase in speed. I prefer to pump to about 80% of the max psi so that the tyre roll easily but the speed is not at its max. I can't handle high speed :)
4. Do lots of warm-up and stretching before your ride.
5. If your legs started to feel a burning sensation (building up of lactic acid) during your rides, take a rest so that the lactic acid can dispersed and won't build up and accumulate. But if you want to train for endurance, then ride on ...
6. Drink isotonic / alkaline-based drink to counter the acid.
7. Choose a flat land and avoid too much uphill.
8. Avoid riding in the hot afternoon sun.
9. If you are riding on pavement, use a thinner & smoother road tyre instead of fat, bulky off-roud, studded tyre.
10. Switch to a bigger tyre e.g. from 20" to 24" to 100"
11. Use a shorter crank.
12. Take creatine drinks to increase stamina.
13. Ride with attractive people from the opposite sex. They have the power to distract you from your body pain. And you will be motivated to impress them.

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Rolling (not riding) downhill .. equally fun but crazier ..

I enjoy riding down the gentle hill at the nearby park. Usually people only jog or cycle on the track. So the grassy slope is all mine. I thought I am the only nuts utilizing the grassy hill.

But I just found out that at another hill at a nearby reservoir, many old people had been practicing a rather unusual morning exercise for several years: Rolling Downhill.

Check out their video: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=663373440401193

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Actually this other hill is higher than the one at the park. I tried to ride my bicycle up the hill but failed. Maybe you might want to challenge yourself to ride your unicycle up this hill???

Bait and Switch, unethical sales tactic by some sales people.

Would you like mocca (coffee) or cappuccino (flavored cigarettes) with your breakfast?

When a unicycle sales person brag about how high tech and wonderful their brand of unicycles are, and how lousy and cheapo are other brands of unicycle, the buyer (being a newcomer to this sports) should be made aware that the prices for "high-tech" unicycles are higher by 2 times, 3 times or even more.

Such comparison is not fair.

In many cases, the sales person would also sell low-tech and cheapo unicycle of the same brand.

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When a sales person entice a buyer (again, being a newcomer to this sports) to buy their particular brand of  unicycle in order to receive help (in learning to ride unicycle) by the community, this is another fallacy aka lies.

The sales person is subconsciously threatening the buyer that the opposite will happen if the buyer don't buy their brand of unicycle. The opposite being: everyone in the community will NOT help the buyer to learn unicycling if the buyer don't buy that specific brand of unicycle.

That is very unfair to the Singapore unicycle community. The community definitely does not discriminate riders due to the brand of the unicycle that a rider own.

Such indirect high-pressure sales tactic based on lies is purely unethical.

I find that the community is generally very welcoming of newcomers. They unconditionally share their experience with newcomers.

Unicyclist like uncle Chow, Tony, Larry, Wong, Faisal, Alice, Rachelle, Yi Hao, Serge, Robinson, Marvin, Jamie, Kee, GC, Kailun and many more are very willing to teach newcomers. So, be free to choose the unicycle that suit you and your budget, whatever brand it is. Don't be fooled by lies.

Curse or charm: unicycle has a magical way to attract people's attention

I saw a small, red unicycle in a window display. It caught my attention from a distance.

Did a witch put a curse on the unicycle during its creation so that it will be in the spotlight forever?