Today was the second day where I was trying to relearn to freemount my KH-36 unicycle. After my experience with regaining confidence while freemounting the 29-er, I knew that I had to take it one step at a time. Day 1’s drill started by practicing safe-aborts; jump up, try and hit the pedal, and then go over the uni and allow it to drop behind, catching it from behind the back, as a bonus. I was able to get the safe-abort to work from the first time, and the fact that I seemed to be hitting the left pedal nicely gave me a lot of confidence. I then tried the jumps while standing close to a wall, where I could use support from the wall, to position myself on the uni and then performing a launch. I noted a bit of hesitation with the launches, but this is because I’d never really learned to launch from the wall/pole in the past! Once launched though, I found that I was able to ride quite well.
Relearning freemounting on 36-ers
April 6, 2025