Uni movie idea

a'la Fear Factor, i'd like to see someone do a side hop from a moving
18wheeler onto another 18wheeler
both travelling at a fair speed

is this possible?


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I'd like to try that. The bad thing about this is I can sidehop just
about half a meter.


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At the weekend I jumped between two rocks, both travelling at 67,000mph.
OOoo yeah.

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GILD wrote:
*a'la Fear Factor, i'd like to see someone do a side hop from a moving
18wheeler onto another 18wheeler
both travelling at a fair speed

is this possible? *
Sure. But where's the movie?

The hard part about the above stunt, other than staying alive, would be
finding enough empty-headed, big-ego, good-looking people age 18-35 who
can ride unicycles and want to eat bugs or other icky things.


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GILD wrote:
*a'la Fear Factor, i'd like to see someone do a side hop from a moving
18wheeler onto another 18wheeler
both travelling at a fair speed

is this possible? *
Ok, since someone else brought up a really really stupid thing to do on
a unicycle, I've always wondered if the following is possible.

A drop wherein one begins seat in front and ends seat in back (or
visa-versa) but where the seat does not pass directly between ones legs.
Or put another way, a drop during which the seat passes underneath the
wheel.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ


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JJuggle wrote:
*Or put another way, a drop during which the seat passes underneath
the wheel.*
I know a guy who was working on this in 1983, but without the drop.
Peter Holmgren of Sweden, one of the early guys to do coasting, gliding
and seat drag, also was hopping on the cranks with the seat on the
ground in front of him. His object was to get a big enough jump so the
seat could swing all the way around underneath.

The obvious drawback of practicing this trick is damage to the seat when
you land on it. Those guys used fiberglass resin to reinforce their
plastic Miyata (first generation) seats. But he was having trouble
getting the height. If he had a nice, bouncy Monty tire, he probably
could have made it!

Here's a picture of Peter on that day, on the unicycle he was using:
http://www.unicycling.com/winteruni/83snowcoast.htm


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johnfoss wrote:
*Sure. But where's the movie?

The hard part about the above stunt, other than staying alive, would
be finding enough empty-headed, big-ego, good-looking people age 18-35
who can ride unicycles and want to eat bugs or other icky things. *


Not to mention you'd need to find two transport truck drivers high on
enough coke to...oh wait, there's 2.

no 3


oh, there's another


crap, I'm gonna stick to airplanes


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GILD wrote:
*a'la Fear Factor, i'd like to see someone do a side hop from a moving
18wheeler onto another 18wheeler
both travelling at a fair speed

is this possible? *


How about a couple of buses?
I'll drive one.


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"johnfoss" wrote in message
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The hard part about the above stunt, other than staying alive, would be
finding enough empty-headed, big-ego, good-looking people age 18-35 who
can ride unicycles and want to eat bugs or other icky things.


....or they could face backwards.

Naomi....and no, I am not volunteering for this, not even as a spectator.

johnfoss wrote:
*The hard part about the above stunt, other than staying alive, would
be finding enough empty-headed, big-ego, good-looking people age 18-35
who can ride unicycles and want to eat bugs or other icky things. *


there's your next muni-game idea,
fear factor with unicycles and marmite!




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ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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