Has There Been Death Caused By Unicycling?

[Jerrick]

I was just thinking, has anyone died in a unicycle related accident?
I've seen lots of pretty bad wrecks and all, but nothing anymore
serious then a broken bone or more.

As far as i know, there hasn't been anything unicycle related deaths,
which is really good in my opinion =p but if anyone out there knows of
one or two, please tell, or say what you think about it.

Some of the stuff I've seen, mainly Kris riding on skinnies, if you
fell, the chances of death are very high, or some of the drops from
doing trials, land those wrong and you can seriously injure yourself :(
So lets see what all you have to say about this =p


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[irvinegr]

I didnt die from unicycleing.


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[unisteve]

I'm with irvinegr.

I think there was a thread about this kind of thing a long time ago,
but the search function doesn't seem to work very well for me. i'll
try a domain-specific Google search.

http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20347

Here's the whole search result:
http://tinyurl.com/namtx


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[Jerrick]

oh weird, i did a search, went through all 11 pages that came up and
didnt see that, thanks for the link =p


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[unisteve]

Yeah, if you want to do a Google search for just a specific site use the
"site:[site_here]" thingy and then your search criteria.

For example, I wrote:
"site:unicyclist.com unicycle related deaths"
(minus the quotation marks, but you already knew that) for my search.


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[Jerrick]

unisteve wrote:
> Yeah, if you want to do a Google search for just a specific site use the
> "site:[site_here]" thingy and then your search criteria.
>
> For example, I wrote:
> "site:unicyclist.com unicycle related deaths"
> (minus the quotation marks, but you already knew that) for my search.



Thanks, ill use that for my next searches, seems like you get a lot
better results that way =p


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[David_Stone]

If I recall, when this thread came up before, even the inestimable John
"God of Unicycling" Foss hadn't heard of a uni-related death that
anyone could corroborate.

I'm always telling people that I don't want to go down in history as
the first uni death. For that matter, I don't want to be the second,
third, and so on.

I have a bad feeling that a uni-related death isn't too far away due to
the amazing (and terrifying) things people now attempt on unicycles. I
have the same dread that California isn't going to be around too much
longer in its current geographical state due to the San Andreas fault.

So John Foss could be the first person to die while unicycling if he
happens to be riding when the 'Big One' hits. Get out of there while
you can, John!!!


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[skianduniaddict]

i heard about this guy who was giraffing on a tight rope and he felll on
his head and died


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[manon1wheel]

yeah im suer a few circus accidents have resulted in death...


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[tholub]

David_Stone wrote:
>
> I have a bad feeling that a uni-related death isn't too far away due to
> the amazing (and terrifying) things people now attempt on unicycles. I
> have the same dread that California isn't going to be around too much
> longer in its current geographical state due to the San Andreas fault.



Faults tend to change landscape on geologic time. If you want to worry
about geographical changes on a human time scale, worry about Manhattan
being underwater due to global warming.


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[musketman]

my cat died from a unicycle crash...:( So i guess thats a unicycle
related death!



p.s. but dont worry my cat still has 8...no..7 lives left ;)


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[markf]

i'd imagine there's some horrible circus related death that involved a
unicycle. i have no idea nor proof so i'm gonna have to say no.


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[James_Potter]

musketman wrote:
> my cat died from a unicycle crash...:( So i guess thats a unicycle
> related death!
> p.s. but dont worry my cat still has 8...no..7 lives left ;)


did you seriously run over your cat on your unicycle??
one time a squirrel did run in front of my coker and made me swerve and
almost UPD...I definitely could have ridden over it if I wanted to.


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[GUI]

Does it count if I murder my brother with some pinned pedals?


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[dorkybarb]

GUI wrote:
> Does it count if I murder my brother with some pinned pedals?



It might, but I would not recommend trying it. Althought there has
been some temptation on my part to occassionally try it.
Just think of the headlines!
It wouldn't look to good for unicyclist around the world.


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[caw89]

I ran overa kangaroo rat once...theyre Edangered supposedly, but they
are like rabbits out here!


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[Klaas Bil]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:14:13 -0600, James_Potter wrote:

>one time a squirrel did run in front of my coker and made me swerve and
>almost UPD...I definitely could have ridden over it if I wanted to.

Scott Kurland ran over several squirrels with his Coker (on separate
occasions), and killed them in the process.

Unrelatedly, Scott is the only person in the world known to me to have
learned riding a unicycle on a Coker. Jayne ZA tried to be the second.

[musketman]

James_Potter wrote:
> did you seriously run over your cat on your unicycle??
> one time a squirrel did run in front of my coker and made me swerve and
> almost UPD...I definitely could have ridden over it if I wanted to.



yea i was cruzing along and it ran in front of me and i ran right over
it! It didn't move and i think its back broke and we had to let the vet
kill it.



P.S. no...actually i dont even have a cat,never did:o


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[Eroick]

yeah, Kris Holm has rode on the Lions Gate Bridge's cables in Vancouver,
B.C.

A fall would have been a possible death. But hey, he is skilled :) ! I
dont know of any death from a uni occurance.


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[forrestunifreak]

I died while riding once. It's not fun, that's for sure.


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[skianduniaddict]

i put a grass hopper on my wheel so he could show me how to wheel walk
but he got crushed in the hub


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[uni57]

James_Potter wrote:
> one time a squirrel did run in front of my coker and made me swerve and
> almost UPD...

Same thing happened to me soon after I got my Coker, but the squirrel
was running -away- from me. Just as I decided to veer off the bike
path, so did the squirrel -- and the chase resumed. Somehow, we both
came out unscathed.


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[LikeableRodent]

I chase squirrels on my unicycle. I have yet to catch and/or run over
one.

Seeing some guy chasing squirrels on a unicycle is probably a pretty
absurd sight, but it's fun.


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[Jerrick]

So as far as we know, no one has died from a unicycle accident, but
theres a lot of ppl that enjoy tormenting rodents =p


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[leo]

Jerrick wrote:
> I was just thinking, has anyone died in a unicycle related accident?
> I've seen lots of pretty bad wrecks and all, but nothing anymore
> serious then a broken bone or more.


I don't know any death case.

A member of the family who teached me unicyling had a bad dismount off
a tall unicycle, and felt with his back onto a pedal.
Next day he dived into a pool, broke his back, got paralized, and bound
to 4 wheels for the rest of life.

So yes, his helmet and shinguards did'nt help, common sense and some
dicipline might have.
Next time you dismount a tall unicycle forward you should remember
above story.
And it wont hurt to be just very carefull.


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[unijesse]

i heward of a kid who was training to be in the circus and was on his
uni and got hit by a car and never rode3 again:( but he did live

someone at my school died on friday in a car crash, its reeal sad, 2
kids have died at my school this year. about five or six have died in
the past five years.


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[unijesse]

yeah kris holm couldv died more than once! he has ridden the edge of a
2000 foot cliff(or so i heard)on ripleys), i get shaky riding on like a
five foot wall!


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[johnfoss]

leo wrote:
> A member of the family who teached me unicyling had a bad dismount off a
> tall unicycle, and felt with his back onto a pedal.


That reminds me of a story JeanPaul Jenack once told me. Not sure if
it's all true, but the story was of a guy dismounting a giraffe on a
stage, where the wheel hit something while it was rolling out behind
him. This stopped the wheel, and stopped the rider's downward progress
sharply enough to break his back. He supposedly landed in the audience,
dead. But I've never heard of that story from any other sources, so not
sure if it's true.


skianduniaddict wrote:
> i heard about this guy who was giraffing on a tight rope and he felll on
> his head and died


Heard where? Any further info?

For David Stone, I'm not worried about earthquakes in Sacramento. We're
actually much more at risk for flooding. Our levies are in much worse
condition than the ones in New Orleans (before Katrina, I presume).
California is plenty safe as long as you use common sense:
http://www.unicycling.com/ca.htm


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