Electric Unicycles: A Practical Guide to Poor Decisions
Electric Unicycles: A Practical Guide to Poor Decisions
Electric Unicycles: A Practical Guide to Poor Decisions is the world’s most brutally honest—and accidentally useful—guide to riding a device that absolutely should not work as well as it does.
If you’ve ever looked at an electric unicycle and thought, “Yeah, I could do that,” this book is for you.
If you’ve already bought one and realized, “Oh no, I made a mistake,” this book is really for you.
Written with equal parts humor, experience, trauma, and self-awareness, this book takes you through the entire chaotic process of becoming an EUC rider:
• Choosing your first wheel (and regretting it)
Every wheel is terrible in a different way. Learn which flavor of disaster is right for you.
• Gear: the stuff you won’t wear until after your first crash
Helmets, gloves, knee pads, and the padded shorts you’ll pretend you don’t need.
• Mounting, wobbling, and failing publicly
A step-by-step walkthrough of humiliation, balance training, and nervous swearing.
• Falling (you will) and braking (you won’t)
Why gravity always wins, and how to lose more gracefully.
• Turning, carving, and looking cool for half a second
Until a pothole resets you back to Beginner Mode.
• Riding in cities, trails, bad weather, and chaotic group rides
Cars, pedestrians, cyclists, and scooter bros: your natural predators.
• Batteries, fire, and the lies we tell ourselves
A friendly reminder that you’re standing on hundreds of explosive metal cylinders.
• Range anxiety
Why your wheel goes from “100% full” to “hope and desperation” in minutes.
• Buying your second wheel
Because you will. Everyone does. It’s a sickness.
Packed with ridiculous metaphors, questionable encouragement, and strangely good advice, Electric Unicycles: A Practical Guide to Poor Decisions is both a humor book and a survival manual for one of the weirdest hobbies on Earth.
Whether you’re brand-new or thousands of miles in, this is the EUC book you’ll read, quote, gift to friends—or use as emotional support after your next faceplant.
Ride safe. Or don’t. Just don’t blame the author.