1. Buy a good quality unicycle. There are a lot of cheap unicycles that make learning to ride difficult, the seats are poorly designed, and will th...

2. Get the right wheel size. You will almost surely start with a 20" or a 24" wheel.

3. Set up your unicycle properly. The seat height is critical: you should be able to reach the bottom pedal, with just a small crook in your knee....

4. Buy (and use) safety equipment. Heavy duty hand pads are a must! Knee pads are an option, but, you don’t want to restrict your movements either....

5. Find a suitable site for learning to ride. Someplace you can hold on to, but, won’t get hurt (and won’t hurt someone else). Tennis nets, a wall,...

6. Practice for 15 minutes or so, once or twice a day. There’s little point in practicing for hours on end immediately: your body seems to learn be...

7. Align the pedal cranks vertically to the ground when you mount a unicycle. (One pedal will be as close to the ground as is possible, while the u...

8. Start by learning to sit on the unicycle. The first time you get up on your uni, just concentrate on sitting on it, while holding on to somethin...

9. Try riding forward next. When you are comfortable with sitting on the uni, begin to try to ride forward. Expect that you will fall off. At first...

10. Don’t give up! You will advance from, a few revolutions, to, riding off into the sunset, quite quickly. One day, it will just…suddenly happen!...