Unicon 2006- info online

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I know there are some non-competetive rides organised, but is there any
point coming if we just want to ride unicycles and don't want to
compete at all, and are more muni than indoor riding types?

Is anyone else considering coming and not messing around with
competing?

Due to limited money and time, for me it's a decision between Unicon
and doing a muni trip to the Italian alps, which would probably end up
being a lot cheaper, but obviously wouldn't have such a large number of
unicyclists there.

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joemarshall wrote:
Is anyone else considering coming and not messing around with
competing?

Joe



Not sure whether I'll be there or not. If I do, then the only
competing I'd be doing would be in the hockey. On the other hand,
spending time in the Alps with the Muni could possibly be a better
option for myself. Hmmm.....

Steve


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I'll almost definitely be there, with Madeleine. (babysitting circle
starts here...)

competing... hmmm. hadn't really thought of that.


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joemarshall wrote:
Is anyone else considering coming and not messing around with competing?


Joe, if I may ask: why are you not considering to enter a competition?

Klaas Bil (posting from the forum, my news server seems broken)


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I wasn't planning on competing (except for hockey and basketball). I
expect I'll take part in one or two other fun events when I get there.

I was thinking of taking a few days out and heading to the hilly bits.
Not sure how far it is to places like Verbier(I really haven't thought
this through yet ). I'm sure somewhere with lifts would go against
the whole Gravity Karma thing but it would be fun.

Nick


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Klaas Bil wrote:
Joe, if I may ask: why are you not considering to enter a competition?




Cos I like riding with people much more than riding competitively. Also
cos most of the competitions are boring ones, like track races or
stupid ones like wheel walking with your nose for 200 metres, or comedy
small wheel racing, if I'm going to travel to somewhere I'd rather
spend the time seeing the place and riding it than hanging around in
sports halls or riding on flat tracks.

I'd kind of consider entering the marathon, but that would mean
bringing a big wheel with me, which would be a right old hassle,
although if I have a schlumpf by then it'd only mean compromising a bit
on what I'd ride for muni. The fact there aren't any proper muni races
(if it's rideable on a road uni it isn't a muni race, if it's only
downhill it's only measuring a third of your riding skills like Ken
said) doesn't fill me with confidence as to the goodness of the muni
riding planned either.

To be honest though, I think as a muni or distance rider, you're almost
always going to get better races by getting good enough to enter bike
races on their terms. You get proper long courses with ups and downs,
designed by experienced course designers, as opposed to something down
the side of a hill that lasts for 5 minutes designed by someone who
thinks that xc means rideable on a 20" street unicycle.

Yeah, so I'm only really considering coming along for the fun bits and
going riding, but if everyone is going to be off doing backwards
standup wheel walk 200 metres all the time then obviously I don't want
to, which was why I was wondering if other people are coming along just
to go riding like.

Joe


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While nothing is finally decided yet, it would seem that I'm using my
leave and budget for a trip to Europe to attend the European Juggling
Convention in Ireland in July.
No disrespect to you fine people, who I'd love to hang out with and
will someday, I just had to make the decision and finally based it on
the fact that Juggling is another of my interests, that I would be
travelling with a group of friends from South Africa and that would
allow us to play 'international UniHoki at the EJC.'
(http://tinyurl.com/d9p8m)

The more I read about Unicon the more I am wavering but I suspect those
considerations will force me to miss this one.


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GILD wrote:
While nothing is finally decided yet, it would seem that I'm using my
leave and budget for a trip to Europe to attend the European Juggling
Convention in Ireland in July.
No disrespect to you fine people, who I'd love to hang out with and
will someday, I just had to make the decision and finally based it on
the fact that Juggling is another of my interests, that I would be
travelling with a group of friends from South Africa and that would
allow us to play 'international UniHoki at the EJC.'
(http://tinyurl.com/d9p8m)

The more I read about Unicon the more I am wavering but I suspect those
considerations will force me to miss this one.



No, no, come to the EJC. I'm going to the EJC, although possibly not
for all of it. Depending on how much annual leave I have left by then.

And now I've found uni hockey too.

Cathy


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So far I've been to 3 unicons - China, USA and Japan, at all three I
have taken part in some of the competitions. Also at all three I've
gone riding with interesting people in interesting places. In the US
some of those were "organised" muni rides while one was me wanting to
do the iron horse trail on my own including the tunnel so I could say
I'd done it.
In China I rode with the American muni bunch for the first time and
we explored a small patch of ground very thoughly finding lots of
single track and thorns with in a mile of the hotel, I also rode into
central beijing with a crowd of people one eveing and one day a group
of us arranged to hire a bus and driver and go out of town to a hilly
place. None of those were "organised" events, we just skipped off what
ever was organised and did our own thing some days.
In Japan, I did a solo tour of central Tokyo early sunday morning,
I had the streets to myself and got a glimse of innner city life
from the saddle of my 29er, baseball practise, people going to
worship at shrines, people gathering for exercise sessions, the
blind runnning club training and a HUGE car boot sale. Another couple
of days Paul and I went and did real touristly stuff manageing to see 6
of the top ten Tokyo tourist sights.
So I think what i'm trying to say in a round about kind of way is.
Unicon is more than the competitions, its about meeting other riders
from all over the world, hanging out in the evening and swapping
ideas, going for rides, beers, meals. Sure I love hockey and take THAT
competition seriously but all the others I don't take too seriously
,I'll enter some of the races, and maybe show up if I havn't got any
thing more intersting planned. I'll watch a bit of freestyle , maybe
a basket ball game or too, I probadly won't bother watching standard
skill or the kids 100m races, those are days I'll go off and explore.
For some other people, those are the serious days and the hockey is
the event they will ignore.
I believe our swiss hosts are trying hard to make unicon 2006 a
convention as well as a competition and I'm looking forward to seeing
some old friends and makeing some new ones during the event.

Sarah


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