The First Journey..

Well, this whole weekend I have wanted to ride my unicycle. The weather
has been beautiful with capital B, but my friend was in form out of town
so I was hanging out with her most of the weekend.

She left this morning, and I was bound and determined to ride. I get all
the stuff that needs to be done today done and at about 4 I decide its
time. I go downstairs and get my bike shorts, I eat a bowl of spaghetti,
I drink my water, I get my hat; I head out.

About a mile and a half into my ride I hear a faint whistle above my
Korn. I turn around and there is this guy waving me back. I thought..wow
some guy that wants to ask me stupid question about the uni. Much to my
surprise he says "Hey when are we gonna go riding?" Slightly taken aback
from a random 35ish looking man asking me when are we gonna ride,I ask,
" Oh can you ride?"

Oh he could ride alright, he told me that he had a uni exactly like mine
and he went to his garage, and what do you know, there is about 6 unis
hanging form the ceiling. The first one to catch my eye is a nice pretty
6-foot giraffe. He pulls down his giraffe and he lets me ride it, with
the help of his truck i got up and rode around in a few lazy circles and
after a while i could go back wards and i could idle fairly easily.

Then he picked it up and self mounted and rode around, it was so
awesome. The reason we have never seen each other is because he rides
down by the river, and I ride down by Wesslesmans Park, completely
different sides of town. Oh well. After about 30 minutes I decide its
time to head out. The ride continues.

As I am riding my headphones brake so I am left with one working side of
my headphones. I ride down to the local mall, which is about 8 miles
away ish, some where around there. The reason I go so far out of my way
is because I had my money on me so I was just gonna go buy some more
headphones.

So I get there and go to open the door. A thought slowly creeps in my
head as I try and open door one and its locked, i push the thought away.
I reach for door number 2 and its locked also. Same things happen for
all the other doors. NOOO I just spent 16 miles of my riding time going
to a mall that’s closed because it’s Labor Day. Oh well I suppose it was
fun.

As I go Ride around that place I start to get really hungry and
thirsty.. but nothings open. After about a half and hour of searchingIi
find a Baskin Robins 31derful flavors ice cream is open. I stop for
refreshments and there is this little girl about 4 who immediately
started hackling me about my "one wheel bike". I mean she was really
having at it.. That is sooo stupid.. Why do you ride that.. My bike has
3 wheels its soo much better... and she wouldn't shut up. I figured her
parents would say something but alas, they just thought what their
little angel was doing was cute. This made my really fun really long
ride a little less enjoyable.

After that I look out and see that the sun is fading fast, and I still
have about 5 miles to home. I high tail it home and got there before the
sun was completely down, so I decide to ride until it was completely
dark out side. I am riding around my neighborhood and I have to stop and
get off for traffic. Once that passed, I go for my remount and totally
missed, I put my foot to far back on the pedal and it flips out and I go
running on my super tired legs. This is my 5th total missed Coker self
mount since i have gotten it.

I go to retrieve my uni and look for any damage and realize that on
crank is very slightly loose. So i decide to go home. Luckily that was
only about 200 hundred yards away.

And that my folks, is my first big adventure on the Coker!!

Left at 4:25 return at 8:00 (with about 1 hour of brakes/pit stops)
Average speed i have no clue
Distance probably about 25 miles
Two total UPDs plus one missed mount

Chase


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Sounds like a crazy day.

So who was the mystery man with the uni's? Does he know bout this
website?


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Good report. Not only is this group a great bunch of unicyclists but
people are becoming great literary writers.

A shopping mall closed on a holiday? Don't they have Labor Day sales?
Around here, holidays are big shopping days.

It is funny how we meet fellow riders. I ran into a guy at the park one
day. I noticed that he was watching me ride while he was talking with
someone. My car was parked nearby and as I started to put my Summit in
the trunk of my car, he asked if he could try riding. I went through
the usual "do you ride" questions and he admitted that he learned years
ago but had not riden since. Well, he free-mounted, did some tight
little circles and rode backwards all while wearing cowboy boots. He was
impressed with the design of my Summit. In his day, unicycles were not
so hi-tech.


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Wow, sounds like a great ride. Long, too. But fun.


I meet other riders in unusual ways too, I guess thats just what
happens.


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juggle508 wrote:
*Sounds like a crazy day.

So who was the mystery man with the uni's? Does he know bout this
website? *


no but i made sure and told him about it.. shameless bump:d

Chase


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that's just about to be the only way to meet other unicyclists. under
unusual circumstances, probably because most of us aren't your
run-of-the-mill-average-joe/jane type people.


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