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MuniAddict;1112020 wrote: Yesterday while I was riding up a steep section of the trail, a biker coming down, stopped and asked: "Are you going downhill too?" Me: "At my age, it's _all_ downhill from here!" haha that's a good answer xD not that it's true.. . ... well anyways I was riding some trials and some guy came up to me, looked like a druggy and I WAS RIGHT well he said WOW, Thats one of those.. U.. ni.. cycles? (in norwegian of course) and i said yea and he asked for a demonstration.. that was fun dont ussually get a LOT of comments.. -- sigve _*Sorry_for_my_english_it's_not_great,_but_I_work_ hard_to_get_it_better_ *_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sigve's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/15979 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Muni addict....... THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!!! -- 1wheelwonder I AM the ninja unicyclist! KIIIAAAAIIIII!!!! I'm in shape! ....... round is a shape.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1wheelwonder's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16226 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Cruisin' the big wheel through a botanical garden, I see a guy I've rode by before. He sez: "That's a lot like that stand up surfing". ( SUP- stand up paddle) I say, "Funny you mention it. That's the other thing I do the most of." He sez: ''I have a friend who SUPs and it involves a lot of balance." 29118 The picture is an example of SUP and is not me. I like to catch waves when I can. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: IMG_7080-1.JPG | |Download: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/29118 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- critter MUni! The closest I'll ever get to bull riding! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ critter's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8739 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Out where I ride with the road bikers on Pacific Coast Highway over here, people are impressively intelligent about how we ride our road unis! I hear people say "you need a bigger gear!" as they pass me when I'm already spinning out in 54" mode, and I hear them say, "damn, no freewheel, that's gotta be tough..." Sometimes when I shift, people ask me how many gears I have, where I got the hub, and how it can shiftable while still being fixed. I then tell them that, yeah, only about 300ish of these exist, and only maybe 70 as beefy as this one, and they're all built by this awesome Swiss German guy named Florian Schlumpf, and that if we could have a freewheel, we'd all be running some form of those Rohloff 14-speed bike hubs. So far, nobody's gotten that we shift with our heels, but when I tell them, I don't get any double-takes. They just seem to understand! And most people who comment on my hub notice that it's geared before they ever see me actually use it. The coach we all go to for help and advice has seen me ride on the back of our spin group, and the first thing he said was that I needed longer cranks and a higher gear ratio. He seemed to instantly know that the reason I was running short (i.e. 150mm instead of 175) cranks is because I didn't have a big enough gear. He said that if I keep consistently riding above 120RPM on 150mm cranks, I should pay attention to any weird pain, because going outside of that 80-100 RPM range for too long is asking for leg trouble. I didn't mention to him that, before gears, we'd cruise along at 150-180 RPM on 100mm cranks... :-P One guy even said "wow, hydraulic brakes! you better be leaning back hard to use those..." I then proceeded to respond with a kind of holy-crap-I-can't-believe-you-just-said-something-that-awesome expression, and said he nailed it! I've also heard, "jeez, this wind must be hurting you a hell of a lot more than it's hurting me...," which is, for the most part, true, but what it also does is make the pack ride slower so that, even though I have to put in more power than they do, I can do it at a slower RPM because I'm stuck at 54". So if it's REALLY headwindy and I'm all sugared up, it's easier to keep up by relying on power instead of spin. (no matter how little actual power a 24mph spin may require due to draft or tailwind or whatnot, we just can't sustain a 24mph spin on a 54" gear ratio with sensible cranks for very long a time.) Pretty much every time I go out, I w00t inside due to the ability of the roadies on PCH to just kind of know enough about cycling and physics to understand what pushing around a geared 36 entails. -- chuckaeronut Uni to work to eat to live to uni to work to...! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chuckaeronut's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14677 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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On my way back from Tucson, I sat next to a fit looking guy who was reading some literature we got at the expo for El Tour De Tucson. Figuring that he was a rider, I started a conversation. He was in the top 1% of finishers, beat by 31 people. I was in the bottom 1%, beating 26 people. Often I imagine this would be a polite but short conversation. Given that we were each at the top of our respective games, though, it was a great conversation among athletes. It was a great bridging moment. Not particularly quotable, but worth sharing. -- boisei ------------------------------------------------------------------------ boisei's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16116 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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boisei;1136620 wrote: On my way back from Tucson, I sat next to a fit looking guy who was reading some literature we got at the expo for El Tour De Tucson. Figuring that he was a rider, I started a conversation. He was in the top 1% of finishers, beat by 31 people. I was in the bottom 1%, beating 26 people. Often I imagine this would be a polite but short conversation. Given that we were each at the top of our respective games, though, it was a great conversation among athletes. It was a great bridging moment. Not particularly quotable, but worth sharing. Sounds like other than the tire incedent you had an awesome time on the ride. -- Ducttape '-*buy my shirts*-' (www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle*) '*watch my videos*' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle) '*uniman comics*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444) '*original thread for uniman*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862) *'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Ducttape;1136625 wrote: Sounds like other than the tire incedent you had an awesome time on the ride. Awesome time all around. The tire bit was a part of the grand adventure. But yes. I had a good ride. Would I have chosen some things to go differently? Sure. But it was all a part of the adventure. There are a lot of stories to tell from the day, but I did 111:11:1 with a 100:10:1 on the way. -- boisei ------------------------------------------------------------------------ boisei's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16116 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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boisei;1136636 wrote: Awesome time all around. The tire bit was a part of the grand adventure. But yes. I had a good ride. Would I have chosen some things to go differently? Sure. But it was all a part of the adventure. There are a lot of stories to tell from the day, but I did 111:11:1 with a 100:10:1 on the way. wow, once again I'm impressed. I think your tire/tube problems might have something to do with running it over recommended PSI and possibly a shifted rim strip or sharp spot in the rim. I don't think the flying helped either. How'd the 36'er fair on the trip home? I'm still afraid of uni transport in airplanes. -- Ducttape '-*buy my shirts*-' (www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle*) '*watch my videos*' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle) '*uniman comics*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444) '*original thread for uniman*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862) *'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Ducttape;1136649 wrote: wow, once again I'm impressed. I think your tire/tube problems might have something to do with running it over recommended PSI and possibly a shifted rim strip or sharp spot in the rim. I don't think the flying helped either. How'd the 36'er fair on the trip home? I'm still afraid of uni transport in airplanes. For it to be a problem with running over the recommended pressure, I would have to be running over the recommended pressure. I was not and never have. I blame the piece-o-sh*t tire that had been nothing but troubles in the 6 months I had it, but I suppose that a more likely culprit than the one you suggest (probability zero) is that the tube was to blame. Oh, I got that from you :P Max made some awesome crates for our unis. One would be hard pressed to do them damage within the usual range of baggage handling abuse. That said, I don't know how it fared on the way home. It's still in the crate in my car. -- boisei ------------------------------------------------------------------------ boisei's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16116 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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boisei;1136655 wrote: For it to be a problem with running over the recommended pressure, I would have to be running over the recommended pressure. I was not and never have. I blame the piece-o-sh*t tire that had been nothing but troubles in the 6 months I had it, but I suppose that a more likely culprit than the one you suggest (probability zero) is that the tube was to blame. Oh, I got that from you :P Max made some awesome crates for our unis. One would be hard pressed to do them damage within the usual range of baggage handling abuse. That said, I don't know how it fared on the way home. It's still in the crate in my car. Oh, I didn't know you didn't run it over recommended pressure. I guess I assumed it since it seems quite a few people do. That's cool about the crates, I wouldn't blame the tube either because it wasn't just problems with tubes I gave you haha. -- Ducttape '-*buy my shirts*-' (www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle*) '*watch my videos*' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle) '*uniman comics*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444) '*original thread for uniman*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862) *'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38668 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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