Really old unicyclists

I'm curious, does anyone know any really old unicyclists? Like, I'm
thinking, is this sort of like sex, where you just wake up one morning
or go to bed one night and think I'm not doing this any more Is
George Peck still riding I do remember as a teenager seeing
this crazy sixty something uni guy who rode around the town of Silver
City, New Mexico and hopped up pretty big curbs, no prob. and I had no
respect then. What an idiot I was. Are there any 60+ yr. old people on
this forum?


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There's an Australian unicyclist who's 87. I met him at UniNats last
year. He's really nice and has a great old fashioned geared uni that he
made himself.

Andrew


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Here he is...


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THAT is awesome! Now I have hope. Thanks, Andrew!


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No worries. Keith, I think his name is, also rode at the Woodford Folk
Festival in 2002 in the ridiculous heat of a Woodford summer. It's
really quite amazing how well he does at his age. He doesn't look like
giving up any time soon either.

Andrew


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Keith McKay is his name and he is about 72 years of age.

See this article:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/keith.htm

He was one of the support crew on last year's Tasmanian Unicycle Tour.
He has more energy at 72 than I have at 42. He gets up at dawn and runs
about 10k every morning.

May he be an inspiration to us all.


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Keith Williamsom of the Arizuni unicycle club is going to boast more of
the older riders than anyone. I hope he posts here with a list of some
of his riders and their ages. I'll e-mail him a link to this thread.


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Okay, sorry...I don't know where I got 87 from. Come to think of it he
doesn't look 87 does he.

Andrew


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scot wrote:
*See this article:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/keith.htm*


-From the article-
*...one-wheel bike riding...*


Interesting... I wonder if the author of that article knows why they
call those two-wheel contraptions -bi-cycles.


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I forgive you Andrew. It's still awesome, made more so by the fact that
he didn't even learn how to do it until he was 65 yrs. old.
I'm looking at his 72 yr. old body and it looks pretty toned and fit.
I'm determined to exercise until I die.(If you know what I mean)Keep
them coming. And what about George Peck? Is he 60 or so?


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