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While the 'text' (http://tinyurl.com/cfg9f) mentions fish on b*cycles,
even the pic's title is unambiguous.

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Consumers cursed with less-than-perfect equilibrium, of course, will
probably steer clear of either version.




Actually, no they wont, they'll just take a bit longer to learn than
others.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,...7a1861,00.html


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'This article' (http://tinyurl.com/9kl2f) about Manchaster United
contained 1x the word unicycle:

"Who cares if United spent the second half back-pedalling more
furiously than a clown on a unicycle, it takes both attack and defence
to win a game."


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leo wrote:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,...7a1861,00.html




Above article for when the link doesn't work:

Kiwis set records both weird and wonderful in 2005
31 December 2005
By COLIN MARSHALL

There's a world record for everything these days, or so it may seem.


From the world domino toppling record in Holland (4,002,136 tiles),
which was almost thwarted by a vagrant sparrow that knocked down 23,000
before being shot dead, to an Indian businessman reaching a record
21,336m high in a hot air balloon, many people gave it a go in 2005,
and not a few of them were New Zealanders.

But some of those New Zealanders need to take a long hard look at
themselves.

In September it was announced that Welsh guinea pig Sooty had received
a world record (for a guinea pig) 206 Valentine's Day cards - including
some from New Zealand.

In any year, many sports records fall but New Zealand managed a couple
of crackers in 2005.

The Black Caps cricketers ended the year on a high note, chasing down
332 runs to beat Australia in a one-day international in Christchurch
in December, two more runs than Australia had hunted down against South
Africa in 2002.

But it was not all rosy in the world record stakes for the Black Caps.


Australian cricketer Shane Warne toppled a 24-year-old mark when he
went past former Australian pace bowler Dennis Lillee's 85 wickets in a
calendar year.

What might that have to do with New Zealand? Well, 17 of the
legspinning whizz's victims came in his side's three-test tour of New
Zealand this year.

In rugby league, when Kiwis captain Ruben Wiki ran out on to Twickenham
on October 29 to face Great Britain, he took the world record for most
rugby league test appearances, with 47.

By the time New Zealand beat Australia 24-0 to clinch the Tri-Nations
final, the front row legend had extended his mark to 50 caps, with no
thought of retiring.

A slightly less conventional sporting mark was set by New Zealand
resident Thien Duc Dinh in March when he claimed the mussel-opening
record at the Havelock Mussel Festival in March, opening 100 mussels in
just two minutes and 38 seconds.

Until this week New Zealand's hold on the record was in doubt, as Mr
Dinh faced deportation after a 2003 conviction for assaulting another
Vietnamese man in Nelson in 2001.

This week the news arrived that a tribunal had quashed the Immigration
Minister's decision to deport him.

Another record-breaker we have nabbed for New Zealand is Irene van Dyk.


She notched up her 129th international appearance in October, against
Australia, to become the world's most capped, or possibly bibbed,
international netballer.

The 33-year-old goal shoot's tally includes 72 appearances for South
Africa before she switched her allegiance to the Silver Ferns five
years ago.

It didn't exactly happen in 2005, but 39 years on from when Southlander
Burt Munro set a world land speed record of 165.517mph (266.373kmh) on
his highly modified 1920s vintage Indian motorcycle in 1966, The
World's Fastest Indian movie told his tale to cinema audiences around
the world.

Munro went on the following year to set a new world land speed record
of 190.7mph (305.87kmh) at Bonneville in Utah. The record still stands
as the fastest by an Indian motorcycle.

Director Roger Donaldson, who began writing the script in 1979, may
also have set some sort of record for the longest time taken to get a
movie to the screens.

Another record a long time past but still remembered was New Zealand
runner Jack Lovelock's time in winning the 1500m at the 1936 Olympics
in Berlin.

As Adolf Hitler looked on, Lovelock finished in a world record three
minutes and 47.8 seconds.

The Third Reich presented Lovelock with a crystal trophy, which this
year Coca-Cola Amatil bought at auction and gave to Lovelock's former
school, Timaru Boys High.

Back in motorcycling, in October Hastings rider Mary Perkins took the
record for the longest motorcycle ramp jump by a female rider.

Perkins, riding a Yamaha YZ250cc flew 159.4ft (48.58m) at the Bindoon
Bike Drag Park in Western Australia.

Still in Australia, and a record that should really belong to New
Zealand but doesn't, 2100 people in Melbourne in September staked a
claim for the most participants in a haka, after performing one before
the All Blacks and Wallabies test being screened live from Auckland,
eclipsing the previous record of 506, held by a crowd in England.

New Zealand did have a world record swimmer this year, but not for very
long.

Former British athlete Zoe Baker held the women's 50m breaststroke
record, set under the England banner at the Manchester 2002
Commonwealth Games.

But in her first meet for New Zealand in August, Baker placed fifth at
the World Championships in Montreal as Australia's Jade Edmistone set a
new world record.

From the files of "at least they gave it a go" 657 New Zealand women
took a shot a the record for mass breastfeeding in August, across 35
locations in the country.

Unfortunately, the mothers fell over 400 short of the record set in
California in 2003.

WELLINGTON DOCTOR KEN LOOI DID NOT FALL SHORT, IN FACT HE MANAGED TO
STAY ON HIS UNICYCLE FOR A FULL 24 HOURS AS HE CIRCLED WELLINGTON'S
BASIN RESERVE CRICKET GROUND, COMPLETING 814 LAPS, OR 378KM, TO BEAT
THE PREVIOUS 24-HOUR RECORD BY MORE THAN 50KM.

FOR HIS EFFORTS, MR LOOI RAISED WELL OVER $2000 FOR THE TSUNAMI RELIEF
EFFORT.

One record we don't want is New Zealand's unenviable record for the
highest incidence of invasive melanoma per head of population - more
than 1800 each year, and 250 deaths, data from the New Zealand Health
Information Service (NZHIS) on melanoma diagnoses and related deaths
showed.

Keeping the sun off us, more than 200 roofers combined in July to break
the unofficial world record for the longest continuous length of
profile metal roofing, taking three minutes and 24 seconds to create a
200m length of roofing in Hamilton.

Another manufacturing feat was realised when New Zealander Maurice
Bryham in June took a New Zealand-designed and built amphibious boat
across the English Channel in 43min 12sec.

That was less than half the time flamboyant businessman Sir Richard
Branson had taken a year earlier in one of New Zealand entrepreneur
Alan Gibbs' Aquada cars.

One we can look forward to next year will arrive in April in
Mid-Canterbury, when 1901 tractors are needed to take the Australian
world record for the most tractors working in a paddock.

It would be one back for us from our trans-Tasman rivals, after they
pinched our record for baking the world's biggest biscuit.

The Anzac biscuit they baked in April was 30m in length - beating the
old New Zealand mark for a 24.9m chocolate chip biscuit baked in 1996.


And for one that's not really ours but we'll take it anyway: a New
Zealand-born shearer living in Western Australia in April claimed the
record for shearing 513 ewes in nine hours.

Dwayne Black, born in Feilding in 1973 to Australian parents then
working in New Zealand, broke the old mark of 507 merinos that was set
in 1997.

Lest we think that New Zealand males are not great lovers, Hugo the
bull hit 1.35 million inseminations in February, having two years
earlier at the age of seven become the youngest bull to top the one
million mark.

Holstein fresian Hugo - properly SRB Collins Royal Hugo - is one New
Zealander who could be excused for taking it easy over the holidays.

And if he did, he could maybe have a nose through a copy of the latest
Guinness World Records book, although it failed to be a record seller
on these shores.

As at December 9, it was only at No. 2 in New Zealand's international
non-fiction book charts, behind What Not To Drive, by Richard Hammond
of television's Top Gear.

Strange but true.


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RYAN'S ONE WHEELIE COOL BIKE RIDER
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3 January 2006
Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian
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WHEN Ryan Crough-Heaton first hopped on a unicycle he couldn't ride
more than a metre without falling off.

Now Ryan, 11, can ride through waves and do jumping tricks on his
one-wheeler bike.

"The next thing I want to learn is to ride backwards," he said.

Continued: Page 2

Ryan is one wheelie cool bike rider

From Page 1

Considering the youngster, who attends Stuart Park Primary, has been
practising the sport for about six months, his work is paying off.

"I recommend people should try it and my advice is to not give up no
matter how many times they fall over," he said.

"I couldn't ride more than a metre before falling off, now I can ride
2km."

Ryan is part of a 30-member unicycling social riders group.

The members, who are aged eight to adult, are trying to raise money for
one of its riders to represent the NT at the World Unicycle
Championships in Switzerland in July.

The Unicycling Association of the NT is trying to raise about $5000.

As part of its fundraising the group have a put out an extreme
unicycling calendar for $15.

Founder of the Darwin-based group, Debbie Hyder, said the experience
the member would gain by competing in the World Unicycle Championships
would be "mind boggling".

"They will see the number of unicycles outside the country and it will
blow their mind," she said.

"They will be able to bring back new ideas to Darwin and Australia."

Ms Hyder, who is a professional entertainer and champion unicyclist,
said it was a family sport that could be social or competitive.

She said unicycling gave riders

the chance to take part in track-and-field events, artistic riding,
mountain unicycling, hockey and basketball.

"It used to be clown activity but more people are realising it's a
sport," she said.

"It's great because it can be a social activity, a non-competitive and
an extreme sport."

To buy a calendar, visit www.unicyclingNT.com or phone 8988 1315.


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'*Media Ignores Cancer Struggle Of Champion Unicyclist*'
(http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43908)

December 28, 2005 | Issue 41•52

KEY WEST, FL (July 26)—While seven-time Tour de France winner Lance
Armstrong's battle with cancer has been well-covered in the media, his
counterpart in the more insular world of unicycling has garnered very
little attention. "Three-time Tour de Farce champion Nick Ienatsch's
battle with mouth cancer is no less real than Armstrong's, and he
should be considered just as powerful a symbol of triumph," said Mitch
Boehm, editor-in-chief of Unicyclist magazine and Ienatsch's
biographer. "He may be a wobblier, somewhat less-dignified symbol, but
inarguably, one of hope." Ienatsch, known for his brash, outspoken
manner and his smokeless-tobacco sponsorship, claims he is not a hero.
"I'm just fighting cancer as any other human-powered-vehicle enthusiast
would," he said. "Be he bicyclist, unicyclist, recumbent bicyclist, or
pogoist."


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'*One-wheel wonder is on a roll*' (http://tinyurl.com/a348q)
Firm's owner organizes the building, shipping of self-designed mountain
unicycles from his kitchen table

Wency Leung, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, January 09, 2006

Kris Holm's mountain unicycle company caters to a niche market within
an already small pool of unicycle enthusiasts around the globe.

But Holm, who is considered a pioneer of the sport of mountain
unicycling, has managed to keep his expenses low and has created a
successful side business out of his Vancouver apartment by outsourcing
the production and assembly of his high-end unicycles to Taiwan.

"My operating costs are incredibly small," said Holm, who also works as
a geologist. He pointed to his company "office," a single laptop
computer set up at his kitchen table.

His company Kris Holm Unicycles (www.krisholm.com) emerged out of
Holm's own desire for a unicycle that suited his unusual hobby of
maneuvering over boulders, across creeks, and down rugged
mountainsides.

"Originally, it was custom-made stuff for myself," he said, adding that
traditional unicycles weren't designed for punishing off-road rides.

Holm's unicycles look like a simplified version of a regular
cross-country mountain bike, but they lack gears and have a lever under
the seat for braking.

From home, he draws up designs and specifications for his products, and
sends the blueprints to Taiwan. Finished prototypes are shipped back so
he can test them out. Then, the final product is manufactured,
assembled and shipped directly from Taiwan to various parts of the
world.

Unicycles are made according to retailers' orders so Holm does not have
to gamble on sales. And shipments are made quarterly in containers
shared with various other Taiwan-made unicycle products to save costs.

"There's not container load after container load of my product," Holm
said, adding that his sales last year totalled about $250,000, with
each unicycle retailing between $450 to $550.

Holm became interested in unicycling at the age of 11, after watching a
street performer in Victoria. His parents gave him his first unicycle
when he turned 12. An outdoor sports buff, he soon began learning
tricks and seeking new challenges once he mastered how to ride.

"It's as easy as riding a bike," he said. "People tend to over-estimate
how hard it is to ride a unicycle."

What began as a childhood past-time has since led Holm on unicycling
adventures along the Great Wall of China, and on the summit of
Guatemala's Tajumulco, the highest volcano in Central America. Holm is
credited with founding the competitive Unicycle Trials and has won
several international championships in the little-known sport. He
remains one of very few designers worldwide who make high-end mountain
unicycles.

Holm initially went to a local machine-making shop with his designs.
But when he began creating unicycles for retail sale, it made more
sense to produce them overseas, he said. "It cost a lot of money to
make it locally."

Holm decided to do business in Taiwan since the island is known for
producing high-quality bicycles and for providing a high level of
customer service, he said.

The aspiration to create a socially ethical and responsible company
also weighed in on Holm's decision. Unlike in other bicycle-exporting
countries like mainland China, Cambodia, and Vietnam, laborers in
Taiwan enjoy a better standard of living, Holm said.

That means production costs might be higher, he said. But he added: "I
don't want my unicycles to be made in a sweat shop."

Still, Holm said he can set the retail price significantly lower than
the $1,300 per unicycle he would have to charge if they were
manufactured in North America.

Robert Hsiao, director of the Taiwan Trade Center in Vancouver,
estimated that the cost to hire one laborer in Taiwan is equivalent to
the cost of hiring five laborers in mainland China. But, he said,
businesses often find that Taiwanese manufacturers offer a great degree
of loyalty, and more consistent quality.

"If you go to mainland China, the quality will be much different,"
Hsiao said.

Currently, however, few B.C. companies operate in Taiwan since the
province does not have a large manufacturing industry, Hsiao said.

Holm said he relies on an agent in Taiwan to communicate his design
requirements to a number of factories that manufacture his unicycle
parts. The agent also inspects the finished products and handles all
other practical aspects of the business there. "Having that contact is
essential," he said.

Holm is now perfecting a gear box, and is aiming to put the world's
first geared mountain unicycle on the market in the near future.


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Holm is now perfecting a gear box, and is aiming to put the world's
first geared mountain unicycle on the market in the near future.



Is this the first we've heard about this or did I miss something?


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GILD wrote:
Is this the first we've heard about this or did I miss something?



I don't know. Did you try the 'search function'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45917)?


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