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[Zoot Katz]

Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.
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[Joe Potter]

Kevan Smith wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:58:04 -0700, Zoot Katz >
> from
> Balsa Pacific Aero Ltd. Engineering & Bicycle Mongery wrote:
>
>>Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.
>
> Your post is off topic, then. :)
>
>

Why?

If he got one more he could make a bicycle.


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[Fabrizio Mazzoleni]

Joe Potter wrote in message ...
Kevan Smith wrote:

>
> Your post is off topic, then. :)
>
>

Why?

Zoot does not ride a pro bike or wear the
proper pro kit, therefore he is always OT!

[Zoot Katz]

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:40:11 -0700, >,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

>In article >,
> Zoot Katz > writes:
>> Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.
>
>Work out some juggling routines, and you could busk.
>
>Or at least bring home a sack of grapefruits on it.
>
>
>cheers,
> Tom

It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one
succeeds in even riding these things. I believe it.

Then I'll need to learn to ride with a tail if that's possible.

Juggling will have to wait.
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[Mike Kruger]

"Zoot Katz" > wrote in message
...
> Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.
> --
OK, so what's your plan?
Tell us now, before you break some fingers and can't post any more.

[Zoot Katz]

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 05:56:38 GMT,
>,
"Mike Kruger" > wrote:

>"Zoot Katz" > wrote in message
...
>> Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.
>> --
>OK, so what's your plan?
>Tell us now, before you break some fingers and can't post any more.
>
First, I've got to get a seatpost clamp to keep the saddle from
twisting around. Then I'd like to be able to ride to the end of the
hallway without dabbing a wall.

These unicycle people are genuinely nuts.
ftp://ftp.winternet.com/users/kfuchs/Unicycling/iuf/iufrules.text
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[Tom Keats]

In article >,
Zoot Katz > writes:

> It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one
> succeeds in even riding these things. I believe it.

Chris Holm makes it look soooo easy <g>

> Then I'll need to learn to ride with a tail if that's possible.
>
> Juggling will have to wait.

I've just realized how I've always taken for granted that
handlebars provide us with somewhere to put our hands.


cheers,
Tom

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[Paul Southworth]

In article >,
Zoot Katz > wrote:
>Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:40:11 -0700, >,
(Tom Keats) wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>> Zoot Katz > writes:
>>> Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.
>>
>>Work out some juggling routines, and you could busk.
>>
>>Or at least bring home a sack of grapefruits on it.
>>
>>
>>cheers,
>> Tom
>
>It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one
>succeeds in even riding these things. I believe it.
>
>Then I'll need to learn to ride with a tail if that's possible.
>
>Juggling will have to wait.

Juggling you can pick up in 10 minutes, the unicycle is a lot harder.

[Zoot Katz]

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:06:10 GMT,
>,
(Paul Southworth) wrote:

>Juggling you can pick up in 10 minutes, the unicycle is a lot harder.

I once spent several hours picking up my juggling attempts.
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[Fabrizio Mazzoleni]

Pat wrote in message ...
>So, what do you think about the new Bianchi jerseys?
>
>Pat in TX (but my Bianchi is yellow)
>>

While I ride blue kit, I really think that Bianchi's kit
needs to darken the blue and get more graphics
on the jersey and shorts, as it looks too division three.

Ullrich looks dorky in his white Rudys, it must be a
German thing, as Baldato, Pellizotti, and Me look really
cool in our white framed Axley Raptor Race shades!

But then Italians can get away with tweaking the standards,
as just the other day I was out on a tempo ride wearing
the classic Briko Stinger shades and was getting great
results with female motorists when I was hanging around
the U.S. border crossing at Hunnington.

Now you go out on a ride and be a German or Dutch pro
rider and see if you get away with the classic look!

[Zoot Katz]

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:57:26 -0500,
>, Kevan Smith
/\/\> wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:33:03 GMT, (Pete Hickey)
>from Rarely. wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>>Zoot Katz > wrote:
>>
>>>It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one
>>>succeeds in even riding these things. I believe it.
>>
>>My kids picked it up in about 2 days. It took me a good week.
>
>So it's a center of mass thing? Keep it low?

Having thus far succeeded in making only one and a half crank
revolutions without dabbing, I couldn't say.

Unicycle hockey is huge in Germany and there's a unicycle polo team in
New Orleans. (I don't know if it's the fanciful beach ball and French
loaf variety or something played with mallets) Basketball is another
game for unicyclists.
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[Mike Kruger]

"Zoot Katz" > wrote in message
...
>
> Unicycle hockey is huge in Germany

This is on the same order as Dick Ryan's statement that recumbents were
taking over in Wisconsin.

Germany is a big country, and I find it quite credible that there are twelve
people in the whole of Germany who would be playing unicycle hockey, but
"huge"?

But, being a thorough researcher, I typed "unicycle hockey" into Google.
Sure enough, the first four entries are from Germany, including the
International Unicycle Hockey Association.
http://dionysos.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~sander/uni/
This lists 38 teams in Germany -- not huge but at least not nonexistent.

[Zoot Katz]

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 04:01:03 GMT,
>,
"Mike Kruger" > wrote:

>But, being a thorough researcher, I typed "unicycle hockey" into Google.
>Sure enough, the first four entries are from Germany, including the
>International Unicycle Hockey Association.
>http://dionysos.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~sander/uni/
>This lists 38 teams in Germany -- not huge but at least not nonexistent.

I'll admit unicycle hockey isn't likely to become an Olympic event any
time soon.

I think it's huge compared to the other counties' listings of teams.
There's a total of ten players in Japan and 15 in Canada and France.
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[Pete Hickey]

In article >,
Kevan Smith </dev/null> wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:33:03 GMT, (Pete Hickey)
>from Rarely. wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>>Zoot Katz > wrote:
>>
>>>It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one
>>>succeeds in even riding these things. I believe it.
>>
>>My kids picked it up in about 2 days. It took me a good week.
>
>So it's a center of mass thing? Keep it low?

No. It is more a thing of kids being able to pick up skills
quicker than adults.
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[Tom Keats]

In article >,
(Tom Keats) writes:
> In article >,
> Zoot Katz > writes:
>
>> It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one
>> succeeds in even riding these things. I believe it.
>
> Chris Holm makes it look soooo easy <g>

Here's a site that has some of those video clips I was
talking about:

http://unicycleukcom.site.securepod.com/video.asp

They're freebie previews to some of his videos.

The clips are pretty big for downloading over a dialup
connection, though.


cheers,
Tom

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[Tom Keats]

In article >,
Zoot Katz > writes:

> Hmm, I wonder if he was one of the guys at the Brockton Point races
> when I was doing dino.

Maybe. If so, you might've lost an opportunity to score an
autograph or other priceless memorabilium.

> The local unicyle club was doing demonstrations

There's a local unicycle club?!!? Kewl!

> in the parking lot. Some people there wanted pictures of a dino on a
> unicycle so they held me up while somebody else snapped some shots.

I used to chum around with a son of Polish immigrants who lived
down the street from me; his kid brother got a paper route and
did it on a unicycle. He got a write-up and pic in the Vancouver
Sun about it. He could nonchalantly fling a rolled-up newspaper
and bash in the mesh on your screen door without even thinking
about dismounting, and then pedal on to the next screen door
victim, and do the same. At least we knew when our newspapers
arrived.

So, it's not only possible to ride a unicycle -- it's also
possible to fling inside sliders from one as well.


cheers,
Tom

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