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Ahahah, this reminds me: after I learnt unicycling and started practising it on longer paths, I started hearing a weird regular "tick" sound from somewhere in t

by akavel 7y ago

Ahahah, this reminds me: after I learnt unicycling and started practising it on longer paths, I started hearing a weird regular "tick" sound from somewhere in the uni(cycle). I was wondering if something's broken, but it was hard to "debug": - the sound obviously stopped when I stopped riding, - just turning the uni's wheel on the ground didn't seem reproduce the noise, - you can imagine it's kinda not very easy to look down and esp. reach for various parts of the uni when you're riding. At some point I finally managed to look down for long enough to discover, that it was the sound of my shoelace flailing around and hitting the shoe with every turn of the wheel... I realized that this sound must be there even on a "normal" bike, but uni is apparently so much quieter...

elijahparker 7y ago
Yes, I learned to use a bell well in advance of approaching people on a unicycle after I had a few people scream in response to a gentle “on your left” as they had no idea of my presence.
moneytide1 7y ago
I wonder if your shoelace became untangled prior to mounting the Uni - or if the extra pedaling required to sustain balance on a single wheel was the force that undid the lace (single tied means you did not plan for your novel experience of a "longer" path - a tight double keeps mine intact during vigorous activity). Looking down seems risky, because a Uni implies increased balance difficulty and frequent knowledge update of path ahead, perhaps more effort than a Bi which grants extra available mental real estate at the cost of increased local noise pollution. I suppose the lesson you are trying to teach us is that the drawback of being silent (via Uni) is that one must spend extra time during the preliminary equipping phase (shoelace). At first glance I wondered about a flailing shoelace becoming a tangle hazard (gears/chain/rotation within proximity).

by akavel 7y ago

elijahparker 7y ago

Yes, I learned to use a bell well in advance of approaching people on a unicycle after I had a few people scream in response to a gentle “on your left” as they had no idea of my presence.

moneytide1 7y ago

I wonder if your shoelace became untangled prior to mounting the Uni - or if the extra pedaling required to sustain balance on a single wheel was the force that undid the lace (single tied means you did not plan for your novel experience of a "longer" path - a tight double keeps mine intact during vigorous activity). Looking down seems risky, because a Uni implies increased balance difficulty and frequent knowledge update of path ahead, perhaps more effort than a Bi which grants extra available mental real estate at the cost of increased local noise pollution. I suppose the lesson you are trying to teach us is that the drawback of being silent (via Uni) is that one must spend extra time during the preliminary equipping phase (shoelace). At first glance I wondered about a flailing shoelace becoming a tangle hazard (gears/chain/rotation within proximity).