I Learned it Wrong! Seated EUC Riding Tutorial 

Seeing you riding like this on the road makes me realized how great these little machines are, they can replace a car, motorcycle, bicycle, scooter, can go offroad pretty easily

Riding seated is my go-to position after spending three days on a gravel bike. It's the perfect recovery exercise.

Viewers, when you look and feel this confident while seated, the EUC will feel like a different machine. That's an effective way to explain the sitting positions and of course, i use both. Here is a technique i use when seated riding. I use my your arms as counter weights. If you use your arms as a counter weight you will have to lean less to accelerate and brake. Simple, hold your arms out in front of you without leaning. Now do it while leaning. See? I feel i can accelerate faster than standing this way. It feels way more stable than leaning way out over the wheel. Also, using this method allows me to brake deep into turn and accelerate harder out of turns much earlier. Why, because im steering with my torso while using the position of my arms to slow or speed up. Imagine your arms are behind you going into the turn and as you transition out of the turn they slowly swing them back to the front to gently accelerate out of the turn. Very effective and smooth once you get it. But, like you said, for emergency or hard braking, coming out of the seat is required.

It's important that riders do squats, this is a great exercise for euc pilots. Easing yourself down on your seat is a good way to learn. I often well do squats before riding.

Wow, new to channel: this is so well done. I have >2500mi under belt, but have been very slow to even try to learn any advanced riding skills like backwards or seated, jumps etc. Your compelling presentation of a lot of subtlety in a short space inspires me to try this. Like wobbles remain the hardest fear for me of going anywhere near my wheels' top speeds. Yet you say seated eliminates such speed wobbles, at precisely the high speeds where aerodynamics are most important.

1:08 - if you think about it, it's because you have one center of gravity instead of two. Hence, no wobbles, as no balance between two centers is needed (between the feet). The ass on the wheel makes all the difference.

Thanks for the great video. I'm a new EUC rider, and I encountered a good wind gust the other day. I saw some videos online that said that seated riding is one of the best ways to counteract this, so I sought this video out. You did a great job putting this together, and made me consider things that I wouldn't have thought of on my own quite as quickly.

Great video. Excellent breakdown, text prompts and music.

This is by far the best seated ridng tutorial. Thanks

What a beast of a video. Thanks for the tips I ride a v12 and my seat is coming tomorrow. So exited

This helped a lot. Thanks man

Really good job! Thanks! 👍

Ordering a BeGode extreme in a couple of days- thank you for the tips. I bought the A2 a week ago, as my first EUC… felt limited by the speed about 30 minutes in thought it was great to get an early feel for how EUC’s ride. Gonna keep the A2 for friends/family/light commute and use the Extreme for trail riding and city riding. Great tips about maintaining control and awesome safety advice- please keep creating content. Subscribed and if you’re ever in Utah hit me up 4 some fun trails.

Good video, I just learned to ride seated. I had tried it first at high speeds, it seemed easy, but when I tried it slower I fell twice. I took some time off then when I got back to it I decided I would master seated. I practiced sitting down and standing up a bunch and it finally clicked after about maybe :30. I haven't tried riding very fast seated, but practicing lots of turning and carving helps. I have the wide ShermS original stock aftermarket pad and seat setup and they are jutting into the inside of my knee a bit. So I am more of a hybrid splits & wide no. 2 stance. I feel I can stand quickly though and that seems to be what matters. Unless I have been sitting too long. I find really concentrating on applying pressure with my balls of my feet instead of my knees to carve helps me feel somewhat more in control. I also use the handle, pushing down on it to go and pulling back on it to stop, and the back handle as well sometimes.

Great and helpful video

Seated riding on the V12 and loving it. I had to modify the seat to sit higher, I’m a tall guy. I do feel much more confidence at high speed seated riding.

Cool video!

Thanks for this! It took me less than 10 minutes before I was riding seated.

Consider looking at the PowerKnobz rather than torque pads. The specific reason is that powerknobz don't block your legs when you sit down - you don't need to spread your legs in order to be seated, and can just keep your knees snug on the sides. This does give you a bit more control in some cases, but also compounds the aerodynamic advantage of being seated. Best way to prevent "the splits"! It also does keep your feet fully locked in but letting you lean while seated, without losing any advantage from your pad setup.

great vid 👍

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Thank you! Very well done video, kept my interest. I'm working on losing weight, want to hit 200-210 before getting a wheel, I'm 6'2" 300lbs at the moment. So it will be awhile. But man these e-wheels are fantastic.

Brilliant, I was learning the minute you started talking. Much appreciated. 6 pac Gord

Excellent video. About "don't start seated", ymmv, but that is actually how I learned to ride seated: starting from a stopped position. I was riding a RS19-HS for 13 months, at the time I could ride quite confident in all situations, on- and off-road, but I was not able to sit on it, then I got a Master Pro, it was difficult to mount on that much heavier wheel, but as the wheel is quite tall, I found out it was easier to sit on it, then start from the seated position and stand up after it got to some speed. Nowadays I can ride the Master Pro "pro level", same as the RS two years ago, including standing, seated, starting from sitting, or switching from seated to standing "on the fly", but I have still some fear every time when I want to switch from standing to seating on the Master Pro. l cannot do that with the RS yet - I tried, but gave up after falling few times - that wheel is too low for my old knees to sit on it (I kept both wheels, I have a standard Begode seat on the RS, quite low, nothing fancy). With the Master Pro, I can switch from standing to seating, but I am not really confident doing it, and usually prefer not to do it "on the fly". I kind of getting goosebumps every time I try, and a sentiment of victory every time I succeed. That's after about two years of riding that Master Pro. No joke. On the other direction, if I am for example at a traffic light and there are a lot of motorcycles and scooters around me (living in Thailand, here they are a lot and drive like crazy, two people die every hour in motorcycle accidents - official statistics), then I prefer to start seated, and stand up after 20 or 50 meters or more, when I put some distance between me and the traffic partners around.

number two, ha!

Good stuff! But my man classic Power pads are obsolete now you need to get some Powerknobz they are absolutely phenomenal for seated riding!

Great advice.... Well done.... Thanx 4 sharing.... New supporter #316

Learning how to ride seated is my goal right now for sure. I just hope it doesn't take me the whole year to do it.

What did you use to record this? Also would love some 1on1 help :) I went 68+ km yesterday on a group ride. However 3/4 the way through my back was killing me... Rest of group has seated riding down to a science but seems like I can't get it. This is most likely because im too afraid to do it from standing to seated.. so maybe i should just try that .. have always tried from a stopping position.

I’m about to get started on learning seated riding. I’m a fairly large rider (6’1” 265 lbs) on a stock Veteran Sherman Max. First question I have is, how do you find a good seat for your wheel?

Nice video But i have a question do you think the Ex30 is a tall enough wheel to learn seated riding I’m a tall guy 😅 my sherman is too short and lets not talk about my Nikola

Why not just make a EUC with an adjustable seat post ( maybe a suspension dropper like on my MTB) and a real true and tested UC seat? Maybe not so big, fast and expensive but super super stable with adjustable battery AH's . Seems more and more these things are evolving as a sit down machines like the original manual UC's. To each their own but sitting down all the time for cruising sense makes since to me and I like it better on these things. I prefer the slower side stance standing ride style on Onewheels.

I don't lock my feet in at all. I hang them oer the front of my pedals

Make sure to not move your feet too much after sitting down. You want to always be able to stand up fast if needed to brake hard. If you moved your feet too much you might not have them in the right place and you will lose balance and crash and burnnnnnn

How many cuttouts have you gotten with that wheel?

I think it's better to start riding seated from a stop when 1st learning. Removes that worry that your going to fall off the back when you sit

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Bro.... How to turn?? You didn't cover that 😅

"The Number Two" aka "The Butt Crack"🤣

Hey whats up that link doesn't work for the 3d printed handle

how tall are you

Aerodynamically I see it would have better performance. Yet it just seems way out of controll and not worth the risk. Good luck for those learning it.

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what wheel is that

I have to disagree with learning while going 20 mph. Riding seated changes the point of balance as well as how the wheel behaves when stopping or starting. That's not something you want to "figure out" when going 20+. My advice, learn from a stop then once you're comfortable riding seated, you can learn how to transition between standing and sitting at speed.

I get severe speed wobbles just as about my butt is going to sit down.

is this why that one guy rides seated all the time?

In my case, while learning, the rule #2 was not true, I wobbled, couldn't adequately turn trying switching from standing to sitting. But when I tried starting sitting from a standstill it magically worked the first time and I was immediately able to ride and turn stably. In my case when transitioning from standing to sitting I ended up in a wonky sitting position, but when starting from seated position you can freely adjust and find a comfortable position. Completely disagree with point #4 and #5. When you are learning you absolutely should not lock in your feet. Spiked pedals? Yes! Everything else, absolutely not. When you are learning you need to be able to quickly disengage and jump off the wheel, by locking yourself in you expose yourself to very unpleasant injuries. Also, in seated riding, it's harder (imho) to brake than to accelerate and you advise people to adjust pedals for easier acceleration? Good luck doing an emergency stop. That's what I think about "learning", if you already now how to ride seated all these points make sense

At my age, I think it's safe to say I would kill myself if I tried learning how to ride one.

hmm.... I disagree with a lot of things you have said. I disagree with rule #2. It depends on individual. I learned seated ride from standstill, because I was having a hard time slowing down while going fast seated and that was a scary feeling. You would really need to lean back while seated and that's difficult to do at first especially if you are already going fast. Yes, speed is your friend when practicing seated ride just like when we learned how to ride standing up. Yes, you also need to practice transition while moving, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't start from standstill. It's really up to the individual. If you can slow down without a problem while seated, go right ahead and practice seated riding while moving fast. I also disagree with rule #3. You do not need a handle. It helps, but not because of the reason you listed. If you are sitting way forward and feeling like you are falling off, and you need a handle to stay on, you are not in a correct position and probably need to check your wheel angle (will get back to this on rule #5). If you practice seated riding long enough, you will eventually understand that most control comes from your feet and hip. Handle helps, but definitely not necessary. Also disagree with rule #4. You want your pads to be placed in a way so that they won't interfere with you standing up or sitting down. If your feet are locked in, you will have to change your feet position every time you are sitting down or standing up. The way you can compromise is "lock" your toes, but keep your heels free. It gives you enough control with locked toes and give you enough free room to stand and sit without changing your feet. This also helps immensely on carving. If your wheel is not one of those tallest wheels, you will have a really hard time sitting or standing back up with your feet locked in. Disagree with rule #5, you do not have to lower wheel angle. This is why you need a handle to stay on your wheel and without it, you feel like you are going to fall off and faceplant.

Did you register and get a license plate for this??? Because you are riding illegally...