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While the 'text' (http://tinyurl.com/cfg9f) mentions fish on b*cycles, even the pic's title is unambiguous. (http://tinyurl.com/8uppb) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: fishmonocycle.jpg | |Download: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/11322 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- GILD 'three short gs and a long e-flat™' (http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven_sym5_1.wav) - 'map' (http://www.frappr.com/unicycleworld) _if_i'm_murdered,_don't_execute_my_killer._ 'harper' (http://tinyurl.com/c9epx) 'NAMASTE!' (http://tinyurl.com/4qcxw) 'Dave' (http://www.lyricsdir.com/d/deep-purp...ld-in-time.php) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GILD's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/657 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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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. Cathy -- cathwood 'Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive - C.S.Lewis http://www.chuckingandtwirling.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cathwood's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9425 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,...7a1861,00.html -- leo leo vandewoestijne *'+1 866-uni-cycl' (callto://+18668642925) 'unicycle.net' (http://www.unicycle.net/) 'subscribe' (http://www.unicyclist.org/cont/subscribe.cfm) to 'unicyclist.org' (http://www.unicyclist.org/)!* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leo's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/224 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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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." -- leo leo vandewoestijne *'+1 866-uni-cycl' (callto://+18668642925) 'unicycle.net' (http://www.unicycle.net/) 'subscribe' (http://www.unicyclist.org/cont/subscribe.cfm) to 'unicyclist.org' (http://www.unicyclist.org/)!* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leo's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/224 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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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. -- unicycle6869 Jamey (formerly known as tuna6869) Which is worse, a president who screws an intern, or a president who screws the country? *20 Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did-EXPLORE-DREAM-LIVE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ unicycle6869's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8990 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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RYAN'S ONE WHEELIE COOL BIKE RIDER 356 words 3 January 2006 Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian 1 - 1 English Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved 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. -- JJuggle Raphael Lasar - Matawan, NJ What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJuggle's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/24 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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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." -- JJuggle Raphael Lasar - Matawan, NJ What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJuggle's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/24 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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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. -- JJuggle Raphael Lasar - Matawan, NJ What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJuggle's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/24 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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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? -- GILD 'three short gs and a long e-flat™' (http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven_sym5_1.wav) - 'map' (http://www.frappr.com/unicycleworld) _if_i'm_murdered,_don't_execute_my_killer._ 'harper' (http://tinyurl.com/c9epx) 'NAMASTE!' (http://tinyurl.com/4qcxw) 'Dave' (http://www.lyricsdir.com/d/deep-purp...ld-in-time.php) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GILD's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/657 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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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)? -- JJuggle Raphael Lasar - Matawan, NJ What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJuggle's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/24 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/22148 |
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