hobby #230 · 2 days
Unicycling
Learning to ride a single-wheeled cycle — mounting, balancing, and pedalling a machine with no freewheel, no handlebars, and no second wheel to bail you out. A pure exercise in dynamic balance: the rider is an inverted pendulum steering by micro-corrections, staying upright only by constantly falling forward and catching it. Starts with clinging to a fence rail and ends, eventually, with a free mount in open air.
Aug 21 8:37 PM #230 3 min Every Time I Braced, the Wheel Ran Away
UnicyclingZero metres at the juggling club, zero metres in my own driveway — except now I owned the wheel that kept firing me into the recycling bin. Turns out pressing down to brace is exactly how you fall.
Aug 29 6:14 PM #230 day 2 3 min The Fence Ended Before My Confidence Did
UnicyclingOne clean release, two pedal revolutions, and no repeat performance. My notebook has stricter standards for riding than my ankles do.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- The Loop That Keeps a Unicycle Upright PID Control Loop
- Every Wobble Deserves a Clean Exit Deterministic Resource Cleanup