On one wheel

I went out to the side yard today to help myself to a couple of oranges on my neighbors tree. It was a beautiful late afternoon in California. I was just to the tree when I happened to catch out the corner of my eye a kid on a stingray wheeliing past. He was already up on one wheel as he rode by. I stopped to watch to see how long it would last and he rode down the street and dropped the front when he cought up to his buddy. I picked my oranges and ate them and was walking back around the other side of the house when I saw the kid again, heading back home. I called him over and said that he has pretty good balance and perhaps he should try a unicycle. He said " UH I dont know". I told him that I had bought a unicycle and had tried to ride it but it was not going to happen. I do not have the talent, patience, or fearlessness required to pull it off. I told him that the last time I had tried, I nearly cracked my head open on the pavement and that I would like to give him the unicycle but I would like to condition it on him wearing a helmet while he learns. He was utterly dumbfounded that this old man (53), would just give him a unicycle. I told him that he had a tallent and because he showed such talent that he deserved the rewarding of his talent to an even higher level. The reason I bought the unicycle in the first place is I was going to end up with wheelies on the SD that would last for miles. I can wheelie, and some of them impress even me, but they are always performed on the power, never at the magic balance point. I saw a racer in the pits tooling around on a unicycle and he also performs some spectacular shows out on the track. His name is Danny Eslick, and he rides in the AMA Daytona Sportbike series. In fact he won the championship last year. That was my inspiration, though it never reached fruition. The kids name is Ty and he was totally egstatic over his new toy. I only hope he continues to put his talent toward such shananigans. Heck maybe I will sponsor him in a roadrace series. Back to Danny Eslick, type in backing it in and Danny Eslick in a google search, the guy is just spectacular to watch. Super-Moto is quite the show. We are younger longer as I just cannot imagine the thought of Dad even thinking of a unicycle, ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I9uRwBE ... re=related

That's a very cool gesture of you. Kudos!

I'm also a power-wheelie-kinda-guy. Last time I tried to find the balance point I ended up launching my Husky SM570R into my girlfriend's ZXR400 narrowly missing a press Honda CB1300... Yikes. Haven't tried since.

yeah one day while waiting for my wife to come out of the store, there were some kinds on BMX bikes doing wheelies, and one kid clearly had it down he would get the bike up to the BP and coast. i stopped him and started firing all kinds of questions at him. he got it all from his back brake, but was so skilled at it that the front never wavered, just got it up there and locked it in at the BP.
some people are just gifted, i clearly am not. i went through a period when i would practice for hours on my mountain bike and my LC4 and just suck at them. i got so i could shift to second but then the front would come down.

on the mountain bike id get it right up there and only flipped it twice out of thousands of wheelies (literally thousands, id go to abandoned lots and spend hours playing) but i could never sustain them for longer than like 80' of so.
like i said flipping it wouldnt be the prob more than likely the bike would drop to the side and i had all kinds of offs from that!
i would experiment with all the gears high and low and just never got any better at it.