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This is from the "'Mammoth times' (http://tinyurl.com/4z3gua)". (Scroll down for pic and caption.) It's a kind of "teaser" photo, and the actual writeup comes out in their newspaper and online next Thursday, 9/25/08. 28682 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: unicycle.jpg | |Download: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/28682 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- MuniAddict 'UniGeezer.com' (http://unigeezer.com/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MuniAddict's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12920 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Whered you get the shirt Terry? -- Michaelgoround ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelgoround's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/17218 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Michaelgoround wrote: Whered you get the shirt Terry? CMW '06. -- MuniAddict 'UniGeezer.com' (http://unigeezer.com/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MuniAddict's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12920 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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MuniAddict wrote: CMW '06. Tight I'm gonna have to get a shirt like that made for me, I really like it. Nice pic BTW. To bad they didn't do much besides that. -- Michaelgoround ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelgoround's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/17218 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Michaelgoround wrote: Tight I'm gonna have to get a shirt like that made for me, I really like it. Nice pic BTW. To bad they didn't do much besides that. Well that's just a "teaser" pic. The actual full article comes out next Thursday, 9/25/08 in both newspaper and online. Plus, I have a full-page write up coming in the Orange County register about a week after that! There will be at least 4-5 large color photos and writeup covering an entire page top to bottom! That should be cool I mentioned this website so hopefully it will be in there too! -- MuniAddict 'UniGeezer.com' (http://unigeezer.com/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MuniAddict's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12920 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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UNICYCLE: TEEN COMMUTES AROUND AREA ON ONE WHEEL MELISSA NAVAS; The Oregonian 18 September 2008 The Oregonian © 2008 Oregonian Publishing Company. All rights reserved. SUMMARY: Once-lonely unicyclists find more folks riding the contraptions, commuting, mountain unicycling, even playing polo atop them Teen commutes around area on one wheel It's a whole new uni-verse MELISSA NAVAS A fierce polo game is being waged at Alberta Park, the click-clack of mallets echoing as players smack a red, golf-sized ball. Through the trees, the setting summer sun spotlights hundreds of bugs swarming over the fenced-in tennis court. This is no everyday polo game, and the 25 players aren't on horses. They ride unicycles. Yes, those one-wheeled circus contraptions. Passers-by stare and point --a common reaction, the players say. One observer lets his dog walk him as he slows to watch the game. Inside the court, the unicycle polo players swear, purposefully try to tip one another over and ram full-speed into the fence. Unicycles are everyday modes of transportation for this group of riders. In a city that caters to bicycles, unicyclists are carving out their path. They ride to suit-and-tie jobs, mountain unicycle, participate in events such as Bridge Pedal and spend hours mastering new tricks. An emerging sport is upon us. * I had only seen a unicycle up close one or two times but never hopped on one. I already know it's going to be tough. And here I am in a restricting work shirt and shin-exposing capris, sure that I'm dressed wrong. Now's as good a time as any, though. * Across town in West Slope, Madison Johnston plugs in daily to a world of unicyclists. It can be a lonely sport, so he wants to bring riders together any way he can. The 17-year-old practically lives on www.unicyclist.com, a forum that allows him to chat with nearly 18,000 members worldwide. And, boy, does he chat. He's known as "Ducttape" and has the fourth-most posts, according to the Web site. His unicycle obsession began four years ago while he flipped through a book. He saw a photo of stilts and thought it would be fun to build a pair. After balancing those, he searched for the next challenge. "Unicycling seemed like the next step," Johnston says. One riding friend is Philip Walborn, 19, of Salem who only recently taught himself from Web sites. "When you ride by yourself, which happens a lot," Walborn says, "it can get kind of boring." Johnston likes to get around town by unicycle. He commutes to school in Northeast Portland and to get to a Boy Scout camp this summer, he split riding and taking the MAX to Hillsboro. He's also developed a list of responses to people's predictable remarks. "Where's the other wheel?" I could only afford the first half, the other is on layaway. Other times people just hum the circus song. "It gets old after a while," Johnston says. "I can almost always have a reply to it. It tends to be a good conversation starter." * Portland resident Kathy Thielen, who first rode as a child, tells me to tilt the unicycle toward my body 45-degrees so the seat is between my legs. Local riders call her Bear Claw, after a unicycle accident left gnarly gashes on her shin. One pedal is nearly horizontal as I thrust myself onto the unicycle. To make it upright, I push the pedal forward until the other one rounds to the top and I rest my other foot on it. Here's where the balance game begins. * As a sport, unicycling is a baby. Like skateboarding or snowboarding, people view it skeptically, says Kris Holm, an experienced mountain unicyclist in Vancouver, B.C., who founded his own line of unicycles and gear in 1998. Holm says Portland is perfect for unicycling because of the area's rugged landscapes and the weird image it likes to cultivate. "The challenge is not the sport or the differences of the sport, it's the perception of it," Holm says. Unicycling would flourish anyplace where people accept something new, he adds. Oregon's terrain helps. "The gorge is incredible riding," he says. "It's sort of got the right combination." Part of a unicycle's appeal is that it's simple, Holm says. "I'm really attracted to the unicycle because I'm kind of a minimalist with the sport," Holm says. "I like the idea that I can do more with less." * Imagine a dotted line dividing your body at the waist. While on the unicycle, my upper body wants to go one way while the lower part drifts the opposite direction. My fingers clench the fence next to me for balance as I mostly stay in place. Trying to pedal forward only makes it worse; that's when the whole thing feels like it will fly out from under me. * One Christmas when Ben Schoenberg was 10, his wish list included a unicycle. He got one. "A toy version with spindly, little crank arms and quite difficult to ride," he recalls. He rode around his Southeast Portland neighborhood and remembers not knowing any other riders. But things changed, he said, when he enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in the early 1990s. He found a juggling club and began hanging out in a gymnasium with students who did freestyle riding with stunts and tricks. Today, he runs Serious Juggling, a small, Northeast Portland storefront stocked with mostly juggling equipment and unicycles. The unicycle's ease makes it appealing, Schoenberg says. "There's a simplicity to it, an economy of parts that have a certain aesthetic to it. If I take one to the bank or post office I can even cycle over, pick it up with one hand and open the door with another." In 1994, he started a mail-order business that included selling unicycles. Three years later, he opened his first shop. Through the years he's seen unicycle's popularity grow among all age and types, including physical education teachers who add balance training on unicycles to classes. And with unicycle DVDs and video sharing of tricks on YouTube, "you have a generation of young unicyclists improving and one-upping each other." * It's been about 10 minutes, and I've moved inches. Maybe four. Though I'm comfortable on bikes, this floaty feeling isn't the same. One slight jilt of my arms or hips changes the direction of the unicycle, and I can't figure out how to control it. I hop off and promise Bear Claw I'll ride longer next time, because there will be one. * It took a personal ad for Lauren Pedersen to find the unicycler she had spotted. She wanted to learn how to ride one. He invited her to unicycle polo to test one out and in July, she bought her first unicycle. "One day I'll get good, and eventually I'll have a fleet of them," Pedersen says, "like all of the bicycles at my house." It's a Thursday polo game, and Pedersen is ready to practice. Amid the click-clack of mallets, she avoids bodies and unicycles crushing each other, and stays aboard. She clasps the fence as she wheels around the court. Riders compliment her newbie progress. She tilts off using her leg to prevent her from falling. Everyone should try it, she says. "Just jump on it and try it out, and try it again when you fall down," Pedersen says. "That's pretty much it." Melissa Navas: 503-294-5959; -- JJuggle Raphael Lasar - Matawan, NJ On a steel horse I ride. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJuggle's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/24 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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'Flying high under I-5 at the new mountain bike park' (http://tinyurl.com/3s3ftr) By Mike McQuaide Special to The Seattle Times Bellingham, where I live, is the home of Galbraith Mountain, Northwest-renowned for its too-many-to-count miles and miles of winding, twisting single-track bike trails. Simply put: To mountain bikers, Galbraith is arguably the be-all and end-all of Western Washington fat-tire riding. So it was with a bit of patronizing condescension that I headed south to the grand opening of Seattle's I-5 Colonnade mountain bike skills park (all two acres of it, huh), which bills itself as the first ever urban mountain-bike park. I was like someone whose usual Sunday ritual is mass at Chartres Cathedral who decides to visit a tiny chapel in the country. "Oh how quaint; let's go see the little bike park." Was I ever in for a surprise. Colonnade blew my mind! First of all, the location is pretty freaky — it's directly beneath Interstate 5 between Eastlake and Capitol Hill. (And thus, mostly protected from Seattle's yearlong rainy season.) Second, the variety of riding that one can do here is staggering. ... "It's incredible to have something like this in the city," says *Dan Heaton, a 26-year-old mountain unicyclist*, taking a break from unicycling the log-lined cobblestones of the Limestone Loop. (Heaton is the mountain unicyclist currently featured in a Columbia Sportswear TV commercial.) ... -- UniBrier Steve Hop Drop & Roll “If something is to hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.” – Homer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UniBrier's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1404 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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