Today, I crossed a milestone of 50+ km of outdoor riding on my 36-er on my ride to Rydskogen and back. When I start the session, it’s a bit hard to make a clean getaway up an incline, but after a few minutes of warming up, it gets a lot easier. Hopefully, with more practice, I’ll find it easier to simply hop on the unicycle and ride off, without stuttering at the start.

Now that I have a few 5 km + rides on my 36-er, I wondered if I should switch to the short cranks, if only to evaluate the difference, and that’s what I did today. The first few moments were hard, as I struggled to get momementum going. The shorter cranks and tighter spinning circle amongst other things mean that I need to do more work to get off to a start, and it gets more challenging if I’m starting up an incline.

Completed another 5km ride, starting from a little walk to the railway station, to cross over to the other side of the tracks in order to begin my ride across the Sky Apartments (Tornet) and go on further. After I got to Engströms bil, I had a choice to either go right and head further along Bergsvägen, or attempt the big climb immediately after heading left. I was a bit apprehensive about this climb, as it’s a short and steep climb and I see many bikers struggling up or even dismounting their bikes to push it up, but I was determined.

Yesterday, the weather was perfect for an outdoor ride; 14°C and only a light breeze, so I took the 36-er for a ride. I’m now trying to find bike paths with few or no pedestrians and other cycles so I can gain more confidence riding longer distances, so I’d decided to hit Tornbyvägen and try and ride onto Bergsvägen. Bergsvägen is super nice, with long stretches unbroken by crossings or intersections, and with the exception of the odd fully kitted out bicyclist on a road-bike perhaps doing a high speed ride around Lake Roxen, it has few people on it. Tornbyvägen too has relatively long and straight stretches, interrupted only by a few traffic lights, where the bike path crosses the main streets.

This post is to document the various milestones I achieve/plan on achieving, on a unicycle. When I complete these, I’ll strike them out and update with the date I completed them.