Forum: Unicycling
November 22nd 08, 09:53 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,424
Quote of the day (from non-riders)
Cycling along the canal towpath during lunch break, a lovely, sunny day.
Ahead, a bench is set back from the path, and a couple is sitting on it.
It looked as if it was a "first kiss" moment, both...
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Forum: Unicycling
August 4th 08, 06:42 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 1
Views: 458
Quote of the day (from non-riders)
Cycling at lunchtime today, passing a young teenage boy and a couple of
girls. He says to them (in broad Gloucester accent) "How does that
thing work? I mean, like, it's got no chain".
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Forum: Unicycling
May 27th 08, 01:41 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 0
Views: 246
Tetbury Woolsack Races
carrying a 35 lb sack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHOcyphKG5c
He only did the downhill half however.
Wassail!
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Forum: Unicycling
May 27th 08, 01:26 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 1
Views: 787
Quote of the day (from non-riders)
Almost off-topic....
Over the weekend I persuaded the wife to come with me around the Forest
of Dean cycle trail. Kate is a reluctant cyclist with no sense of
balance. She was riding a small fold-up...
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Forum: Unicycling
May 14th 08, 08:08 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 1
Views: 356
turning
In addition to the other good advice, if you want to go left, push
harder on the left pedal.
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Forum: Unicycling
March 3rd 08, 01:42 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 23
Views: 591
Lidl Special - Unicycles
'Lidl Special from Monday 10 March'
(http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20080310.p.Unicycle.ar4)
£24.99
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Forum: Unicycling
December 21st 07, 06:29 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 7
Views: 451
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Forum: Unicycling
December 21st 07, 09:18 AM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 7
Views: 451
Unicyclist on BBC radio4 this morning
A medical prof interviewed on the reactions of passers by to unicycling
around Newcastle. Summary of the content at
http://pegspirate.blogspot.com/
Wassail!
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Forum: Unicycling
November 14th 07, 09:55 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,983
I need advice for airplane travel with uni
joemarshall wrote:
On BA, as long as you have a bag it'll go in, you can tell them it's a
bike, they carry 1 bike free of charge,
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/bagsport/public/en_gb
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Forum: Unicycling
November 14th 07, 06:23 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,983
I need advice for airplane travel with uni
B*cycle bags are fairly cheap and are big enough for a uni - not sure
about a Coker tho'. Available in the UK from around £40.
I just looked up the conditions for carriage on BA (I'm flying...
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Forum: Unicycling
November 12th 07, 08:18 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 12
Views: 703
The best 1x1xFar. (With quiz)
I wasn't aware that his forename was Hercules.
Wassail!
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Forum: Unicycling
November 2nd 07, 08:50 AM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 6
Views: 422
portable mounting assistance
Our local Aldi store (budget supermarket with weekly "specials", mostly
from E Europe) has folding walking sticks this week which looked like
what you need. They collapse into something about 30 cm...
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Forum: Unicycling
October 12th 07, 08:42 AM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 22
Views: 754
I can ride! I can ride!
Well done! I'll raise a glass to you later :)
One more of us.
Wassail!
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Forum: Unicycling
October 10th 07, 09:07 AM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 205
Views: 9,213
Are you 45+
53, riding for 2 years mostly off-road on canal towpaths.
Wassail!
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Forum: Unicycling
October 2nd 07, 03:41 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 22
Views: 996
Getting off the wall
If you're falling off the back, you're not leaning forwards enough
(statement of the obvious :) )
Most people hardly ever fall off the back in normal riding. Think of
riding as a process of...
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Forum: Unicycling
September 30th 07, 07:34 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 2,626
Views: 67,963
Quote of the day (from non-riders)
Small boy: "Mum, LOOK! that man's got an icicle"
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Forum: Unicycling
September 20th 07, 07:39 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 2,626
Views: 67,963
Quote of the day (from non-riders)
I was at a seminar today rather a long way from home. Speaking to the
lady next to me in the lunch queue, we discovered that we both worked
in Gloucester. She then floored me by asking if I was the...
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Forum: Unicycling
September 7th 07, 08:52 AM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 67
Views: 1,260
What's the strangest thing someone has done...
I was cycling across a local village green. It's rather picturesque, and
it looked as if an artists club was having a field day - there were
lots of people painting with easles. One lady looked up,...
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Forum: Unicycling
September 1st 07, 07:10 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 82
Views: 3,355
What is the Link Between Engineers and Unicycles?
I'm a physicist, but nowadays I'm really a radiological engineer (that's
wot it says on my business card anyway). The only other unicyclist I
meet regularly with is also a physicist but he works in...
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Forum: Unicycling
July 8th 07, 12:27 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 9
Views: 385
Riding a coker in a 10k or marathon?
This sounds like a very bad idea. On a coker you'll be up with the
fastest runners - if you're not, you probably shouldn't be
contemplating it anyway. You will be in the way, the runners won't...
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Forum: Unicycling
June 13th 07, 01:48 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 2,626
Views: 67,963
Quote of the day (from non-riders)
A lot of blokes in England seem to say "That looks like hard work" when
what they think is "That looks difficult but I'm not going to admit
that I can't do it although I feel that I need to give...
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Forum: Unicycling
June 8th 07, 01:48 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 46
Views: 6,143
Fixed Penalty Charge - for unicycling
I have a vague memory from Charlie Dauncey's book (lent to a colleague
18 months ago and yet to be returned) that an interpetation of advice
in the Highways Code could be that unicyclists are...
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Forum: Unicycling
May 24th 07, 09:15 AM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 2,626
Views: 67,963
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Forum: Unicycling
February 27th 07, 02:49 PM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 64
Views: 2,072
unicycling side effects
dr.melon wrote:
My wang grew an inch.
Length, diameter or radius? We have a right to know.
:eek:
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Forum: Unicycling
February 22nd 07, 09:12 AM Posted to rec.sport.unicycling
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,555
Riding on Ice!
saskatchewanian wrote:
I now ride a 26" MUni with a 3" Gazz and home made tire chains, the
chains work well on most surfaces but the Luna with screws is better on
glare ice.
-Please- tell us...
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