Shoes (fwd)

Ilan Berci (ilan@laurel.ece.ucsb.edu)
Tue, 21 Nov 95 13:24:28 GMT-8982938:08

>What is the best type of shoes to ride a unicyle?
>
>Cotton? Leather? Soles: soft? hard? rubber? crepe? leather?
>Sneakers? Other types of sport shoes?
>
>What has been the experience of this group?
>
>All opinions are welcome.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Michel Y. Roy
>roym@dgabby.mfldclin.edu
>
Michel, The best shoes in my opinion are skateboard shoes..
they are very flat and have a very good contact with the
pedals.. and at the same time they can easily be taken off
the pedal when you are trying to perform any type of trick..
Secondly, they allow you to "feel" the pedal as well..
Running shoes aren't the best in my opinion as they have too
much traction and it can be hard to re-adjust your foot for
whatever the reason... Sandals.. are the worst.. your foot
has too much "play" within the shoe and it's really easy for the
lip of the sandle to get caught in the cranks.. plus if it
rains.. and your sandles get wet.. then prefare to do the
"face plant" trick!!! later.. ohh I use to ride with canvas
shoes.. but I think skateboard shoes are definetly the way
to go.. 

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Ilan Berci  ilan@kane.ece.ucsb


What is "unicycle" but the addition of two words:"unic" and "ycle"


  o   
o   o  <-prehistoric unicyle (before the invention of the wheel) 
  O      very hard to to idle and next to impossible to coast!
\/Y\/    On the plus side, the wheel was very stable and
  >>     made tricks like wheel hopping relatively easy.
  []     Quickly lost favor due to severe saddle soreness!
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