One wheel in a Bicycling Magazine

Here's the August "The Fringe" article" from the local "Bicycling
Magazine". The idea, from the photographer, was to put muni in the
South African context. this was acheived by getting Table Mountain (a
landmark in Cape Town) in the shot. Here's the article:



CLOWNING AROUND

If you thought a single-speed mountain bike was the simplest and purest
vehicle to tear up the singletrack, you were wrong. If you thought
unicycling was strictly a circus act, you were wrong. If you thought
this kind of thing could only happen in America... Beeep, wrong again.
Right here on our doorstep. or rather, at the foot of our Table
(Mountain), there are a few youngsters (some just young at heart) who
roam the forest tracks on only one wheel. Their skill is surprising,
executing technical singletrack that some would never attempt on two
wheels. The equipment (trying hard here not to call it a bike) shares
similar features to a jump bike: aggressive-looking tires, beefed-up
cranks and spiky, shin-hating pedals. But make no mistake, the
apparatus is highly specialised. The saddle is banana-shaped, the frame
is high-tensile steel and there are more spokes than you could count.
Worldwide, the sport is spreading faster than chlamydia in a Bangkok
boudoir, with its mutating disciplines, a dedicated magazine and many
devoted followers, if the number of hits on www.youtube.com is anything
to go by. — Niel Gardine

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