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Old December 12th 03, 05:42 PM
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unibabyguy wrote:
*Good point, but the original article is copyrighted. *


Not more so, I think, than many of the articles JJuggle quotes in full.
And as a librarian he'll know what he does (in that respect, I should
add respectfully).

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UNICYCLE SHOP TO GO

536 words
13 December 2003
Newsquest Media Group Newspapers
English
© Copyright 2003 Newsquest Digital Media.

Bolton

A SPECIALIST shop selling unicycles and other unique gifts is the latest
in a long line of retailers to move out of an isolated town centre
shopping complex.

Traders in the award-winning St Andrew's Court centre say that because
of a lack of promotion of the arcade they are struggling to compete with
out of town shopping centres.

Over the last few years, the court has seen several businesses close
down and relocate, leaving numerous empty shop units.

Card and gift shop Zebra, which sells unicycles, will be closing at
Christmas after 18 years in business.

Owner Gillian Terrell says that a combination of strict changes in
parking rules, out of town shopping centres and pedestrianisation of
surrounding streets have all contributed to her decision not to renew
the lease on the unit.

She said: "The area is no longer a busy thoroughfare into the town
centre, which used to attract a lot of passing trade.

"And there has been the construction of many retail parks around the
outskirts which is leaving Bolton like a doughnut -- with everything
around the outside and nothing in the middle.

"It's very sad because it could be a very busy shopping area."

St Andrew's Court, which houses 21 shop units, was built in the late
1970s and was billed as Bolton's showpiece shopping centre.

Mrs Terrell also said that large chain stores opening in the town centre
are slowly driving out traditional independent businesses.

Sue Calland, who owns and runs Mea Fashion in the court, said she relied
heavily on regular custom built up over the years.

Although happy with her place in the complex and the business it brings,
Mrs Calland said the area as a whole could do with more promotion to
attract new custom and businesses.

Bolton Council is currently using some of the empty shop units to
display work by professional local based artists.

Business owners in the complex hope this will attract more shoppers to
the court.

Andrew Dickson, owner of the successful St Andrew's Travel which is also
based in the arcade, said: "Some of the businesses in St Andrew's Court
have been affected by the general reduction in visitors to the town
centre.

"This has been created by the reduction in parking and lack of
investment in the infrastructure in the town centre. It becomes a
downward spiral when you get shops closing.

"The council needs to make stronger use of the law regarding issues like
fly-posting, litter louts and begging."

Mr Dickson is calling on landlords to invest in their properties,
improve lighting and lower rents so that businesses will be encouraged
to come into the town centre.

A spokesman for St Andrew's Court management said: "We are aware of some
problems which need addressing and moves are afoot to put our efforts
into these matters.

"Lighting and signange of the court are obvious issues, and capital
investment is certainly needed.

"We have appointed a permanent manager to the site for the first time in
a number of years, and he will focus efforts on making changes and
getting things moving again in St Andrew's Court."


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UNICYCLISTS TAKE TO MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAILS

By DEB ACORD
The Gazette
820 words
12 January 2004
16:17
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English
(c) 2004. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Extreme mountain biking, extreme
snowmobiling. Extreme skateboarding and in-line skating. Motocross and
skiercross and all the other 'crosses.

They're so yesterday.

At least for Aaron Dubois, a local teenager who has all those old, tired
extreme sports beat. Dubois has embraced a sport that's so cutting-edge,
so new, so X, he appears to be only one of a handful in the state to
master it.

Dubois is a municyclist, a relatively new word for the relatively new
sport of mountain unicycling.

Several times a week Dubois pedals a shiny but scarred unicycle up and
down rugged trails favored by downhill mountain bikers. On a recent
sunny morning, Dubois took to a rough, rock-strewn hillside dotted with
spiky yucca and withered cacti.

Municycles, like the one Dubois rides, have knobby tires, big saddles
and mountain bike pedals. Like all unicycles, they have no gears and no
way to coast. The rider pedals constantly. One rotation forward takes
him forward the length of one rotation of the wheel. If he stops
pedaling, the municycle stops.

So municycle riders are always pedaling, uphill and downhill. With one
hand gripping the horn of the oversized seat and the other arm
outstretched for balance, a municyclist moves in jumps and starts,
continually adjusting for balance.

Speed isn't the issue. At unicycle races, according to the Unicycling
Society of America, 17 mph is a common speed for the 100-meter winner;
14 mph for the 1,600 meter and 11 mph for a 10K. Dubois figures he rides
about 2 mph on trails.

That doesn't mean you can't get anywhere on a municycle. Just ask Ed
Hansen of Florence. Hansen, 30, is a corrections officer who has ridden
a municycle since February.

He used to explore trails on a mountain bike. Now, he rides a municycle
with his mountain biking friends.

"If it's really smooth and straight and they can use their gears, they
leave me in the dust," he says. "But if it's rough, technical stuff and
we're going downhill, we go the same speed. If we're going uphill, I can
even pass them sometimes."

Like Hansen, Dubois has learned the power of a municycle -- but it took
a while. Dubois is 14 and home-schooled. A fan of science fiction, a
"true believer" in aliens and an avid model builder, he has tried
skateboarding and extreme inline skating and snowboarding, and is
proficient at downhill mountain biking.

On a whim last Christmas he asked for a unicycle. When he got it, he
spent a few weeks in his driveway trying to learn to ride it. "There was
about a week when I gave it up. It was hard to learn," he says.

But he couldn't resist the shiny one-wheeled bike, so he worked on it
until he could ride it.

Dubois left the driveway for a dirt hill near his house, and soon
graduated to trails in his Cheyenne Mountain neighborhood.

He discovered that balance was crucial, and that unicycling, especially
the mountain variety, can take its toll on his legs.

"But in some ways, it's easier than riding a bike. There's only one
wheel to worry about, and it's always a thrill."

Now, Dubois seeks out the perfect day on his municycle: a sunny, warm,
T-shirts and shorts kind of day. His only regret? "That I don't have
somebody to do it with me."

The hardest part of perfecting the municycle, Dubois says, has been
coping with the reaction of his peers. Kids called him "circus freak"
when they saw him riding on one wheel.

That's a common reaction to the unicycle, which, for generations, has
been associated with the circus ring.

But that may be changing. Municycle events and clubs dot California and
elsewhere. Web sites such as the one run by a municycle pioneer John
Foss, unicycling.com, detail events and provide news about the exploding
sport. The North American Unicycling Championships last summer in
Minneapolis attracted 350 unicyclists.

Unicycles have even taken on Moab, Utah, considered the mecca of
mountain biking. Ed Hansen met other muni-minded athletes at last year's
Moab MUni Fest, an event held each summer since 2001 on the slickrock
near town. At MUni Fest, Hansen says, the versatility of the municycle
becomes obvious. "It's a blast on the slickrock. It's amazing how steep
a hill you can go down or up without slipping."

Hansen believes municycling has a place in the future of outdoor
recreation. "I feel like it's where mountain biking was 20 years ago.
Not many people are doing it, but it's catching on."

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On the Net:

Foss homepage: http://www.unicycling.com/

Unicycling Society of America: http://www.unicycling.org/usa


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FALLING FOR; ON THE CORNELIUS ELEMENTARY UNICYCLE TEAM, AS IN LIFE, YOU
CAN'T HUG THE WALL FOREVER

PAM KELLEY
Staff Writer
513 words
11 January 2004
Charlotte Observer (NC)
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Copyright 2004 The Charlotte Observer. All rights reserved.

Before you ride a unicycle, you have to talk about falling.

Because you will. Over and over.

First thing in the school year, that's what Cornelius Elementary PE
teacher Don Riehl discusses with all fifth-graders who want to be part
of the Cycling Cougars, the school's unicycle team.

When you feel you're falling, he tells them, take a step off and grab
the seat. If you catch it, the seat lasts longer.

Everyone approaches falls differently. Nicole Bodziony tries to minimize
them. She holds a friend's hand and pedals, afraid to let go. It's not
the fall that worries her, she says. It's the possibility that a
careening boy will plow into her when she's down.

As she talked during a recent practice, pedaling classmates swirled
around her. As if on cue, Ridge Morgan tumbled off his unicycle, skidded
across the gym floor and came to rest near Nicole's feet.

For Ridge, the dramatic fall adds to the overall unicycling experience.
"In here, if you fall, you sort of slide with the floor and it doesn't
really hurt. If I'm outside, I fall more carefully."

Cornelius' unicycle team, one of the few in the region, has been around
about 12 years. Once a week, about 60 unicycle club members arrive at
school early to practice. Eventually, they become proficient enough to
perform at school and community events. But in September, most hugged
gym walls for balance and made cautious forays across the floor.

By December, some wall huggers remained. But every week, more kids
zipped around with confidence, executing split-second turns to avoid
crashing into each other.

With gym traffic beginning to resemble rush hour in Rome, Riehl made an
announcement: "A few people need to start falling more gracefully and
with a little more control." He looked at Ridge.

How do you avoid falling? "Mr. Riehl says you've got to pedal, pedal,
pedal, pedal," Madison Barker says.

Sometimes, Katie Heidrich says, you start pedaling, and you realize
you're riding, "and you're just so proud of yourself you forget to
pedal."

And then you fall.

Keep trying, though, and one day you realize you're pedaling more than
falling.

Ben Pierce is there. Ben glides around the gym, arms swinging, shoulders
relaxed. "It feels like flying," he says. One real plus about unicycles,
he says, is that they don't have handlebars, "so you can just bring in
groceries for your mom."

When practice ended, Riehl gathered his unicyclers and told them to
practice at home over holiday break. In January, he told them,
accomplished riders could try a six-foot-tall unicycle known as "the
giraffe."

"Yay!" Ridge said.

But Jackson Ulmer had a question. "What happens when you fall on a
giraffe?"

Before you ride a giraffe, you have to talk about falling.


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LUCKY INKS IN TATTOO RECORD

PAUL STEWART
361 words
18 January 2004
Sunday Herald Sun
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(c) 2004 Herald and Weekly Times Limited

MEET Lucky Rich -- the world's most tattooed man.

In what is another international first for Melbourne, Rich, 32, has
entered the Guinness Book Of Records after having the inside of his ears
and the skin between his toes tattooed.

The ink-work was enough to take the world title from Scotsman Tom
Leopard.

"I am now fully covered everywhere and, yes, I mean everywhere," Rich
said.

"If you look up the Guinness Book Of Records extreme people category you
will find me now listed as the world's most tattooed man."

Rich, whose trips into the city literally stop traffic, has topped off
his distinctive look by having silver crowns on his teeth.

His skin is now a shade of blue meets purple from the many layers of
tattooing he has had over the years.

"I got my first tattoo when I was 16 in Kings Cross and lost my
virginity the same night," Rich said with a grin.

"I have since had more than 850 hours of tattoo work performed on my
body. I must have worked with more than 200 tattoo artists to achieve
the look I am after. Some people say `how can you do it?', but I simply
love being tattooed."

Asked if such extensive work had been painful, he said: "Opening my
wallet to pay for it all was the hardest bit."

Rich also lists his skills as a "master escapologist, *"awesome
unicyclist"*, "chainsaw juggler" and

a "self-taught sword swallower". He has also been hired to perform at
private parties attended by the likes of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.


"I am a living, walking advertisement for never judging a book by its
cover," Rich said.

"People might think I am nasty because of my look, but I am actually a
nice guy."

So what does Rich's mother think of it all?

"My mum did not like my tattoos at first and I used to hide them from
her," he said.

"Gradually she accepted them and she just got her first tattoo done at
age 50 and she is already talking about getting another one."


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*The big wheel ; It's a highly effective workout for both mind and body,
once you master its mysteries. But those who ride unicycles do it as
much for fun as fitness.*

Chris Bynum Health and fitness writer
1,619 words
5 February 2004
Times-Picayune
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rights reserved.

The fitness industry has an array of high-tech machinery and an
ever-changing menu of workout motifs to keep its customers motivated.
But there's something to be said for the less-is-more approach to
exercise. So say those who burn their calories on less than half of a
bicycle.

"I had gained a pound a year since high school," says John Drummond, 46,
who rode unicycles as a child, resumed his pastime at age 40 and
promptly dropped the 20-plus pounds he had gained over the years.

Drummond became such a believer in the single-wheel cycle that he left
his job at IBM and started selling unicycles over the Internet from his
home base in Georgia five years ago. Friends and relatives thought he'd
lost his marbles -- his father-in-law asked, "How many clowns do you
know?" -- but his e-commerce gamble turned into a million-dollar
international business. He now sells about 4,000 unicycles, plus parts,
every year.

But customers, ranging in age from 10 to 92, aren't buying them for
weight loss; they're buying them for fun.

Every Sunday afternoon local unicyclists -- many of whom are customers
of Drummond's -- gather at the Norman Playground on the West Bank for an
afternoon of unicycle polo, a game the locals invented themselves. Their
version of polo follows sanctioned games of unicycle basketball and
unicycle hockey.

So what lures a rational person to a bike without handlebars, gears,
brakes -- and a second wheel?

An affinity for the crazy and unusual would seem to be one prerequisite.
But mastering the skill of unicycling has some healthy benefits,
according to the Unicycling Society of America:

-- Endurance. There's no coasting on a unicycle. One complete turn of
the pedal is one complete turn of the wheel. The pedal must be engaged
at all times to keep the rider upright.

-- Core strength. Posture is everything when you're fighting gravity on
a teetering wheel. A strong center helps keep the rider balanced and in
motion.

-- Focus and concentration. There's no daydreaming on a unicycle. The
rider must stay fully alert. Living in the moment is essential.

-- Balance and agility. Not only does the rider have to develop a good
sense of balance, but also be able to maneuver quick turns with hip
movements.

-- Mind-body experience. Balancing the body and focusing the mind work
hand in hand (or rather foot in foot) -- what the veterans call a
Zen-like workout.

And as an added benefit, unicycling is easy on the joints.

"It's a tremendous amount of exercise. says Alex Burke, 28, who has been
unicycling for six years. "Unicycling works out your legs more than (a
traditional) bike."

Burke recently got his degree in performance art from the University of
Southern Mississippi. Unicycling wasn't exactly course work.

"I have 1,001 hobbies, and I never go a year without picking up another
one," Burke said.

Tom Sherry, 52, caught the unicycling bug from his teenage son a couple
of years ago. The biology professor at Tulane University had to give up
running for exercise after breaking both of his feet when he fell from a
scaffolding while remodeling his home. He often takes rides on the levee
as his teenage daughter jogs, or takes a couple of loops around Audubon
Park -- but a few miles is a major workout on a unicycle.

Tom's wife, Tracey, had a childhood unicycle stored away in the garage
that got the family started. Son Jacob Sherry took it up at 12 (he's now
15 and profiled in today's Best Revenge on page E-1), and the entire
family soon followed suit. His sister Jenna, 18, is one of the few
female unicyclists in the New Orleans Unicycle Club. Tracey has
temporarily put away her unicycle since hitting a pothole last fall and
suffering a serious ankle sprain. But she is an enthusiastic cheerleader
for the sport that brings all ages together.

The local unicycle club now has about 17 members ranging in age from 13
to 52. They encourage newcomers, literally lending an arm - - and
instruction -- to beginners learning to balance on one wheel.

The initial investment is about $75 for the unicycle, plus protective
gear. Musts are wrist guards and a helmet -- "like the ones
skateboarders wear, with protection for the back of the head, although
such falls in unicycling are rare," Tracey Sherry says.

Elbow guards, shin guards (like the ones worn in soccer) and knee pads
are encouraged, but optional. "Basically, you dress as you would for
rollerblading," she says.

Wheel diameters vary, according to age and height, but a 20-inch
diameter wheel is average for a beginner. Distance riders may go all the
way up to a 36-inch diameter wheel.

When the local club gathers for a polo match, they get out their croquet
mallets (which are always in short supply since they wear out quickly on
the concrete floor) and head to the covered basketball court where
players have honed necessary court skills such as riding in reverse and
using well-executed hip swivels to lock in a shot, as well as developing
keen hand-eye coordination moving the ball across the court.

"When you get up to a certain skill level, unicycle polo forces you to
improve your skills with sharper turns and higher speeds, idling and
riding backwards," says Tom Sherry.

Those inclined to seek a sport requiring both balance and hand- eye
coordination are naturals for adding the circus art of juggling to the
cycling challenge. Many of the younger members of the club are
perfecting the skill. Keeping five balls in the air while the rider
balances on a single wheel by gently rocking back and forth is a form of
multi-tasking where neither task gets short-changed.

Local engineer Tim Gode, 36, has been juggling for 25 years (as a young
teen, he thought it would make him a better basketball player). He took
up unicycling eight years ago.

While unicycling polo is the newer passion, juggling is something Gode
won't surrender. The skill translates well into real life.

"It makes you think in a different way," Gode says. "You find different
solutions to problems, and it opens your mind to possibilities."

Gode sees the skill of juggling paired with the skill of riding a
unicycle as vehicles for productive life lessons. A recent study says
Gode is on track in that such tasks as juggling may benefit brain cells.
(For more details on this study, see The Shape of Things on page E-3.)


Unicycling itself has expanded beyond the boundary of circus ring and
spilled over into mountain trails where "MUni" or mountain- biking on
unicycles has become a strenuous endurance sport by those who want to
take the ultimate challenge on a single wheel. There are also unicycling
track-and-field events, says Drummond, "from long jump to high jump, as
well as trials with obstacle courses, and one- foot racing and backwards
racing in national and international competition."

There are also ten recognized skill levels requiring riders to pass
exams authorized by the Unicycling Society of America (
www.unicycling.org).

How long does it take to learn to ride a unicycle? Anywhere from minutes
to months, say the experts.

But it is often age-related, says Tracey Sherry.

"The younger you are, the less the fear of falling," says Sherry, who
resumed unicycling at the age of 46. "I never had a sense of balance,
and I wasn't particularly coordinated." Yet she mastered the skill for
her own enjoyment.

And falling, says her husband, is not as scary as it may seem, since in
most cases it is a "controlled fall." And one doesn't have that far to
go, he says.

Admittedly, it's not only the challenge, but also the quirkiness of the
sport that attracts its followers. They admit they love the questions
and the attention the sport attracts. When Drummond and his friends see
a group of bicyclists approaching, they often beat the traditionalists
to the question with, "Are those things hard to ride?"

Drummond's favorite unicyclist's T-shirt is "no brakes, no gears, no
handlebars, no problem."

Without such basics, learning to ride requires a little help from one's
friends. A beginner starts with two friends on either side, gripping the
friends' forearms with his hands, palms down. After some trial and
error, the beginner graduates to one friend, until he is ready to go
solo.

A key to staying upright, says Burke, is to not look down. "Keep your
head up as you would if you were walking."

That first foray into a no-hands ride is "a very accomplished feeling,"
says Justin Mercer, 15, a student at Archbishop Shaw High School who has
been unicycling for four months. Mercer plays soccer, runs
cross-country, rock-climbs and has a black belt in tae kwan do. But
unicycling, he says, is "cool and interesting."

Gode agrees. "It's a lot harder than I thought -- and more rewarding
than I thought," he says.

And there's a natural reflex to riding without handlebars.

"There's something very joyful about it," says Tracey Sherry. "You can't
ride a unicycle and not smile."


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Another good one. Thanks for going to the trouble of researching and
then posting these articles, Raphael.


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One more muni article, in september 2003 the Denver CO paper Rocky
Mountain News did an article called "One-Track Minds" on Muni it was by
Price Colman (Stormy) who is a Muni newbie from Durango CO. It was in
the saturday edition with a lot of great color pictures by Ken Papaleo,
the pictures don't appear in the article on the web. you can check out
the article, and a second article called "Getting Started" at
www.rockymountainnews.com/adventure then search, one track minds, and
getting started. I think it's a good article, I think he is planning to
come to Moab and do an article with pictures. Dan


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*Carnival laws keep all safe*

East Jefferson bureau
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22 February 2004
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The following is a list of public safety laws enforced during Mardi Gras
in Jefferson Parish.

-- Individuals are prohibited from following parade floats or bands
without authorization....

-- It is unlawful for any person to ride on or use skates, skateboards,
roller blades, bicycles, *unicycles* within 50 feet of parade...


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*NED DOES ROUNDS IN WHEELY UNI-QUE WAY*

301 words
17 February 2004
The Citizen
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(c) 2004 The Citizen

Because Ned has found an unusual way to deliver The Citizen to readers
in Blakeney in the Forest of Dean - by unicycle.

Ned, 14, himself a Blakeney lad, inherited the paper round from his
older brother and decided that walking was too much like hard work.

The one-wheeled wonder learned to ride a unicycle at the Lydney State
Circus, where he practises his technique every Friday evening for two
hours.

"Chris, who leads the circus, said I could do with the practice and lent
me a unicycle," said Ned.

And now he uses his circus skills to help him traverse his delivery
route in record time.

But Ned didn't want to limit himself to one trick, so he is also
learning how to juggle clubs and clearly has big plans.

"Perhaps in a few months I'll be able to juggle three papers while I'm
unicycling," he laughed.

He said that he started the paper round to save up enough money to buy a
banjo. You see, Ned is not only able to juggle clubs, but juggle all his
hobbies, and he is now teaching himself to play the instrument.

He also plays the guitar, fiddle and mandolin, and likes morris dancing
with the Lassington-Oak Morris Dancers.

Ned has three brothers and one sister: Joe, 16, Ben, 12, Kester, 7 and
Polly, 10.

They all enjoy being educated at home.

Ned is the practical one of the bunch and is often asked to fix things
in the house.

The quick-thinking paperboy loves riding his unicycle and says: "It is
much more interesting than walking." But Ned's unique paper delivery
system has temporarily ground to a halt. Not because he is wheely tyred
- his unicycle has a puncture.


--
JJuggle - Last of the Dogmato-Revisionists

At least I taught her to make a full Indian dinner.
The rest is up to God.
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