Learn to ride

Jump On! is PEVRA’s free training for new riders. Volunteers have run it since 2018, in parks and on waterfront lots, and PEVRA’s own count is that hundreds of riders have learned at one. There is nothing to pay and nothing to bring except a helmet if you own one.

The next Jump On!

This page is where PEVRA announces Jump On! sessions. A date appears here first, then on PEVRA’s Facebook Events page; the day-of details — the group has moved to the far end of the lot, the start slipped an hour — go out on PEVRA’s Telegram channel.

No date set yetThe next session is announced here first. Have a group, a park or a town that wants one?Request training in your area

Training also runs inside Westwheel, PEVRA’s annual expedition week, which is where a good number of the sessions below happened.

What a Jump On! session is

A learner in a white helmet and knee pads rides a single-wheel electric unicycle down a quiet street, both hands on a training bar held by a PEVRA trainer walking beside her. — A first session: both hands on the training bar, a volunteer on the other end of it.

A few hours in a flat, open, traffic-free space with volunteer trainers who ride themselves. Wheels are provided — electric unicycles, and usually electric skateboards, scooters and Onewheels as well — so you do not have to own one to find out whether you like it. Bring your own if you have one and would rather learn on the machine you already ride.

Every rider at a Jump On! session is offered a full set of protection before they get on — helmet, knee pads, elbow pads and gloves. PEVRA brings them. Trainers are required to make that offer to everyone, and a rider may decline it; some do, and that is their decision. Bring your own if you have it.

The usual shape of it is a hand or a training bar to hold, and as many attempts as the session has room for. Some people are riding the length of the lot by the end of the afternoon and some are not.

How long it takes

You will be riding in minutes, because the first wheel you get on has two. PEVRA brings two-wheeled electric unicycles — Inmotion E20s — to every session, and anyone who can stand, walk and breathe can get on one and go. There is no real learning to it; you step on, and it rides.

The single wheel comes next, and that is the part people mean when they say learning to ride. It varies. Some riders get on and have it in under five minutes. Most take longer, with a trainer or a bar beside them. And a good number, once they have felt the two-wheeler move and step onto one wheel, will not get off until they have it — PEVRA sees that at nearly every session. Nobody is timed and nobody is scored; how long you take is not a fact about you that PEVRA keeps.

A first-time rider in a helmet glides across a sunny plaza on a two-wheeled Inmotion E20, cones and other riders behind her. — First minutes on two wheels: the E20 rides while you find your feet.

Every rider who learns the single wheel at a session goes home with a PEVRA Certificate of Accomplishment. It is signed on the spot, and it is earned — the single wheel does not ride itself.

A new rider grins, holding his Certificate of Accomplishment in one hand and his electric unicycle by the trolley handle in the other, beside a PEVRA trainer in a green jersey and helmet. — Certificate in hand, single wheel at his feet.

If you would rather teach than learn, how PEVRA trains its trainers is the other half of this.

Where it has run

On the Crane Cove waterfront, a learner on a two-wheeled E20 holds a training bar with a PEVRA trainer in a green jersey and sun hat; more learners and cones behind them. — Crane Cove Park, San Francisco — the two-wheeler, the bar, and a lot of room.

Every Jump On! session since the first, newest first. It starts in San Francisco in July 2019 and runs to Crane Cove Park in August 2026.

August 9, 2026Crane Cove Park, San Francisco
July 25, 2026The Panhandle, San Francisco (Fell and Masonic)
July 11, 2026Crane Cove Park, San Francisco
June 7, 2026Richardson Grove Campground and RV Park, Garberville, California — the Westwheel 9 base camp
January 25, 2025Crane Cove Park, San Francisco
June 2024Las Vegas, Nevada — during Westwheel 7
August 2023Lake Tahoe, California and Reno, Nevada — during Westwheel 6
March 18, 2023San Francisco
August 2022Portland, Oregon — during Westwheel 5
June 25, 2022Pier 15, San Francisco
June 11, 2022Pier 15, San Francisco
May 13, 2022Vancouver, Washington
May 12, 2022Albany, Oregon
May 12, 2022Eugene, Oregon
May 11, 2022Arcata, California
October 19, 2021San Luis Obispo, California
October 18, 2021King City, California
October 17, 2021Hollister, California
September 18, 2021San Francisco — during Westwheel 4
July 10, 2021San Francisco
June 12, 2021San Francisco
September 19, 2020San Francisco
August 13, 2020Las Vegas, Nevada — during Westwheel 3
April 4, 2020Sacramento, California — cancelled (public-health restrictions)
February 23, 2020San Francisco
July 21, 2019San Francisco

Membership is what pays for the training, the expedition and the awards; nobody at PEVRA is paid. More about PEVRA.

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