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Rail riding training...
I've decided that I want to become good at riding along narrow things. I made the first part of something today that will hopefully really help me improve. There are a few more bits and pieces to add to it but you can get the idea from these photos. I reckon if I spend about 30 minutes every second day on it for a while it should work well. What I've built so far is a portable and strong (well it will eventually be strong) rail that will fit into the car and is quick to set up. All the bits of wood are 35mm x 70mm planks that somebody was throwing out and the screws are 60mm for those who are interested. I plan to make a support for the middle of the beam and add a couple of other little things and then make a second copy. I'll end up with about a 4 or 5m long, 35mm wide rail to practise on. The supports are made so that they can be pressed right up against each other. I might even do what George B suggested and make them bolt togetherable. 35mm wide seems like the perfect width for this sort of thing. It's not quite as challenging as a 2cm diameter round railing, but it's narrow enough that I'll have to focus on staying on top of the uni rather than moving the wheel side to side underneath me...more of a moving still stand if that makes any sense. I'm going to practise by first riding along it, then going slower and slower. I'll also try to work on still stands several times a week. I just thought I'd tell you about it...maybe it will give you some ideas. I know other people posting photos of their structures have helped me a lot. Here are some higher resolution photos - http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/albup15 Andrew +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Attachment filename: miscellaneous - practice rail compilation.jpg| |Download attachment: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/188870| +----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- andrew_carter - www.unicycles.com.au HTTP://WWW.UNICYCLIST.COM/GALLERY/ANDREW andrew_carter (at) mail (dot) com http://www.unicycles.com.au - Open now! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andrew_carter's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1052 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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Thanks Andrew, I also want to learn to ride along rails and stuff. I still got a long way to go though as I can only do thin walls, maybe 20cm wide? Yeah it's pathetic, but I'm getting better. So I'm gonna have to practice on those for a while but once I'm better I'm gonna build one of these with my dad and this design you made looks pretty good although I would like one with say a rail to get up on. Just wondering how do you get up on that, when I'm doing walls there's either a ramp leading to it or a person next to me because I can't free mount them successfully everytime (only some of it) so are you just like hell good at free mounting? Hop up? Or do you have some other method? Anyway thanks again and I hope to build one of these one day, might change it a bit here and there but yours looks quite good. -- Robbie - Spoons Taste Good Proud owner of 3 young Sock Puppets... but when they get out of line, I get out my whacking spoon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robbie's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5302 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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nice setup! is the grass portable too? -- pete66 - Level 3 Unicyclist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pete66's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4812 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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Robbie, 20cm isn't at all pathetic! I plan to mainly practise freemounting on the rail. On a lot of the railings I've ridden on lately I've had to freemount, so I thought I should work on it a bit more. I'd like to confidently go from a freemount straight into a stillstand. It's not very difficult to make a little ramp for this sort of thing though. Thanks for reminding me...I'll make a ramp for it so other people can get up there if they don't want to try freemounting on it. Good luck for when you end up building something similar. Those photos aren't of the finished product...just today's work. I've still got more supports and so on to build. Andrew -- andrew_carter - www.unicycles.com.au HTTP://WWW.UNICYCLIST.COM/GALLERY/ANDREW andrew_carter (at) mail (dot) com http://www.unicycles.com.au - Open now! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andrew_carter's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1052 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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Well I built a simple rail for myself. Well I couldn't really call it a rail. But it's a something thin to ride on, about 20cm off the ground. It's 10cm thick and I can ride it successfully most of the time providing I don't focus too hard or not focus at all, lol. It's 2.1m long with a little ramp leading up to it, but it's all a step for me. Only problem is it's very unstable. Ride over to the edge and it starts to tip although it never tips over (unless hopping). Which brings me to this next part. I was gonna try and ride half way, hop 10 times, and then ride off the end. I gave up after everytime you went slightly out of the middle it would just tip. Oh well, it's a step for me and I'm getting better, I need some idead though. It's short, I can't make it longer, I need some new wood to make it thinner, got any suggestions to make it harder for me? -- Robbie - Spoons Taste Good Proud owner of 3 young Sock Puppets... but when they get out of line, I get out my whacking spoon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robbie's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5302 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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I made the same decision as did Andrew and wanted to become more proficient in riding narrow things. I made some simple rails, too. Here is a picture of my backyard play ground. Sorry for the lousy picture of the “rail” but I’m not a home currently. However, I have two rail set-ups. One is a 4” X 4” steel and the other is a very simple to make 2X4 rail. I just cut slots into 2X4s on the ground and then put in a couple of screws to hold two “rail” 2X4s in place. I also made them so that I can change to a single 2X4 set-up. However, tough I have made significant improvement in my “rail” riding I am not yet proficient enough to consistently ride a single 2X4 as pictured in Andrew’s set-up. I practice as Andrew suggested – about 30 min. a day. I limit myself to that amount of time so not to get frustrated. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Attachment filename: backyard trials.2.jpg | |Download attachment: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/188892| +----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Tmornstar - Student of Christopher Tommy Thompson Memphis Unicycle Club Please vist our web site: http://www.memphisunicycleclub.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tmornstar's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/658 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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andrew Nice design. I like the way it sets up and can be broken down easily. As an added feature, you could make it more versatile by making a rail out of a couple of 2 X 4snailed together into a T shape. The verticle part could set into the frames and you would have a 4" wide "rail" to ride on. So you would have two different rails to put onto the frames. One skinny and one skinniest! Another idea, if you made a frame with a longer slot in it, you could use it as a support when you are joining 2 sections together for a longer rail. Sorry I don't have drawings or photos for these ideas. Hope my descriptions are clear. Bill -- billham Direction is everything, distance is secondary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ billham's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4625 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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Andrew, Well done. I like your rail a lot. I may have to build one for King MUni-Man this summer and add it to his collection of trials obstacles. I'm curious to see how he does now that he's graduated to a 20" Monty wheel. Cheers, Jason +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Attachment filename: p1010008.sized.jpg | |Download attachment: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/188986| +----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- jason - Just some guy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jason's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1014 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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i wish i didnt live in a dorm and had a yard... -- muniracer - Hell On Wheel The Hell on Wheel Unicycle Gang owns you!! www.hellonwheel.cjb.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ muniracer's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4339 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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Robbie, That sounds great. Try to find some milk crates to use. I asked the neighbour's milkman for some and found another in a pile of rubbish somewhere (that's actually where I find most of my trials obstacles. ) As you can see in this old photo, they're great for resting planks on. Also, you can see how I nailed (but should have screwed) some little bits perpendicular to the planks for extra support to stop them from rolling. Have a look around at construction sites in the bins. If you ask, they usually don't mind at all if you take some btis and pieces. Hardwares also sometimes give away free timber offcuts. http://tinyurl.com/2w2yv Tommy, That little playground looks great! I love the 'MUC' on the sandwich boards. You mentioned cutting slots in the 2x4's on the ground. How did you do that? I thought of that early on but decided I didn't have the tools to do it. I have a jigsaw, 1/3 sheet power sander, and drill. I love my jigsaw. I got it for Christmas and it's a very welcome change from cutting everything by hand. Bill, I love both those suggestions. How would I go about joining the two planks into a T-shape? I also wanted to make a 90 degree turn (which at 35mm wide is a real challenge for me!) in it some time in the future. Any suggestions on how I could do that while keeping it portable and stable? Maybe I'd have to make one support to hold both of the planks at the corner. Jason, If you build something new for him, please tell us how he goes. We love hearing the King Muni Man stories. muniracer, If you make it portable you can move it into somebody else's yard (or maybe just a park). Everyone (I think particularly the Americans), Is 2x4" (50x100-ish mm) the standard plank size for buildings and things like that? I keep hearing '2x4' a lot. It seems like over here it's 35x70mm. It's interesting that in both cases, one side is double the other. Just curious. Thanks, Andrew -- andrew_carter - www.unicycles.com.au HTTP://WWW.UNICYCLIST.COM/GALLERY/ANDREW andrew_carter (at) mail (dot) com http://www.unicycles.com.au - Open now! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andrew_carter's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1052 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/30252 |
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