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A list of mounts

Horizontal idling

Pick items up off the ground.

Ride an ultimate wheel.

Free mount a giraffe unicycle.

Carry people on your shoulders while you ride.

Commute to work or school.

Take your dog(s) for a run.

Husky-team on ice!

Hockey

Ride on narrow surfaces

Ledges, rims of fountains or planters, curbs, etc.

Ride down stairs

Best to start with wide stairs, with the individual steps being shallow and long, take the stairs at an oblique angle so that you are not propelled forward as you come off each step - later, you may want to try riding straight down normal-shaped steps...

Hopping up stairs

Idle/hover parallel to the steps, and hop up sideways, one at a time

Rotate either direction while hopping.

Crush coke cans by hopping.

Try to do several in a row, hopping from one to the next.

Juggling

There are many possibilities here - anything you can do with juggling, you can try on a uni - except maybe picking up clubs with your feet!

Hills - up or down.

Short, steep hills can be a challenge to climb - see if you can get up enough speed to power to the top before losing momentum and falling off.

Snow! Snow and Hills!

Uni basketball

Especially fun with a giraffe on each team.

Uni diving

Not particularly difficult, but...ride off the end of a diving board on a unicycle. Might not want to do this on your best uni.

Jousting,

Super Trick Cycle

It's basically two unicycles mounted on a single frame so that they both pivot. One has handlebars instead of a seat. You can do a lot of dumb things on them, and at HMC this has earned it the epithet "Stupid Trick Cycle". I wonder what it would be like to replace the handlebars with a second seat, thus making a "tandem uni"? Yikes!

Handlebar unit

Here's a neat visual trick you might like to try - I took an old kids bicycle (like one with a banana seat) that was discardable, removed the handlebars, wheel and fork and reassembled them, so that now you have front end of a bike. Get on your uni and push this around. It's not tough, nor would I recommend it for learning, but it gets a good reaction from bystanders - when you see two wheels moving along, you just don't expect sudden 180' turns, one wheel dropping back to be beside the other, slaloming, that sort of thing. It's fun to play with (and wheelies are easy :-).

Riding with a flat.

Get a small old bmx wheel and a bike pump. Ride along looking frustrated, pumping madly - as though you are only riding on one wheel until you can get this other blasted wheel pumped up.

Riding with a steering wheel.

When you get bored of that, get an old steering wheel, and hold it in front, while making brrrm brrrm noises and pretend to use it to steer. Making appropriate honking noises when pushing on centre of the wheel.

The double unicycle

My grandad told me of a friend who used to join two unis together with inner tubes, to make a bike with a flexible frame. That's something I might try one day, when I can afford a second uni.

The hobby-horse unicycle

Take a hobby-horse (horse head on a stick) and attach it under the seat. Then , don your chaps, spurs and six-shooters and go for a ride. A little exageration to you idling and it looks like your riding a bucking bronco.

Bungee Jumping (824267 bytes).

How about jumping rope?

Slalom

Anywhere that there is a row of pillars or posts! Do it as fast as possible (you might want to start slow and work your way up - posts, unlike people, don't dodge when you fall over towards them).

Slalom Racing

Race bicyclists through the slalom - either side-by-side if there are two sets of posts, or for time if there aren't. Using the same set of posts simultaneously is NOT recommended! Sort of like TIE-fighters chasing the Millenium Falcon into the asteroid field - they try to go fast and catch up, then WHAM! Solid object. (Of course, I'm really not sure why the Falcon seemed to be more maneuverable than the TIEs...)

Riding on walls.

• Start by riding as close to the curb as possible
• When you are riding on dangerous walls - to impress the members of the opposite sex - be sure to stay REAL close to the safe side. If there is not a safe side, then send me your E-Mail address and we can trade war stories.
• Walls next to water works good ... if you know how to swim.

Jumping off high places.

• Be sure to stand up on the pedals, especially if you are MALE
• Start low and work your way up
• Find a good spoke shop

Riding the 6 - footer

• Not very much harder to ride - except getting on and off
• Tall-un's are alot of fun
• You are real high up. Watch for branches way in advance, especially in traffic
• Stairs are not suggested on cheap 6 footers because they tend to bend

Square dancing

Two (three, or four) riders approach each other lock hands/forarms, then rotate around each other in a "square dancer's alemande or (in the case of 3 or more) square dancer's star" formation. (exit from this trick can involve spins, etc.)

Pairs spin

Two riders approach each other, extend hands then push off the other rider's hand to perform a spin ( as they would spin off from a stationary object)

Two cyclist juggling, playing basketball etc.

Snow riding

Have you ever ridden long distances on Unicycle in snow? Surprisingly easier to balance as long as is enough traction with the underlying surface.

Singing

Have you ever tried singing ( for an audience ) as a Tenor in an ensemble while riding? The challenge here is keeping those high notes even.... kind of like balancing a glass of water on your head.... ain't easy. (I rode for a theatre troop for a while)

Limbo

As long as you don't touch ground, any way to bend should be fair, but bending forward over the wheel will work best.

Contributors

Julian Orbach 	julian@cs.uq.oz.au
Paul Goodrich	psgoodrich@bpa.gov
Beirne Konarski	beirne@neo.lrun.com
John Stimson	jjs15@cornell.edu 
Bert Neff	bneff@melpar.esys.com
Jerry Carson 	jcarson@mcgh.org
Joe F.		75234.573@compuserve.com
Don Larson	donl@cup.hp.com
Doug Borngasser db@ucsd.edu
Denis Kathrens d.kathrens@genie.com