Re: http://rockbottomfreeride.com/

I've often thought about designing and building unicycle specific
stunts. Things like skinnies with sharp turns (90 degrees or more) in
them aren't too hard on a uni but would be very tough on a bike. Then
you could do other stunts like ladder bridges with sideways gaps in
them, or drops that require the rider to twist 90 degrees in the air, or
a whole sequence of these in quick succession - the sort of thing that
most MTBers couldn't ride unless they have good trials skills already.
There's potential to do some ground breaking stuff here!

L8er

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After I found out about this competition I ran into Dustin Kelm here in
Atlanta. He said he was in a freeride event in Washington. He was
winning the overall competition, and when he thought he was going to be
in the finals, they anounced he had won the "Unicycle" catagory. He
seemed interested in coming down for the competition, but it is a long
way to travel unless he has something else going on.

I know that there are a lot of you young guys on this board that could
come down and make a great showing. I would love to see it happen. If
your interested let me know. What about Hell on Wheels Gang? You got
what it takes? Or are you just a bunch of Internet Tough Guys?😄

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Howdy folks -
we're throwing another freeride comp this year and the offer still
stands. We'll be at the horse park, the course is brand new and if you
give me enough notice I can raise some prizes and maybe cash for the Uni
riders......... Just let me know......... Lucas

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adding a uni division to things like this seems like quite a good step
foreward for the sport in general, we're getting more recognition.
that's always a good thing. Now we just need to fill the uni division
up.

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TonyMelton said:

*I've often thought about designing and building unicycle specific
stunts. Things like skinnies with sharp turns (90 degrees or more) in
them aren't too hard on a uni but would be very tough on a bike. Then
you could do other stunts like ladder bridges with sideways gaps in
them, or drops that require the rider to twist 90 degrees in the air,
or a whole sequence of these in quick succession - the sort of thing
that most MTBers couldn't ride unless they have good trials skills
already. There's potential to do some ground breaking stuff here!

L8er *

Great ideas Tony! I'd absolutely love to ride structures like them.
I've played around with a lot of that stuff...exactly what you're
talking about at home on planks...I'd love to try it up in the air on
the muni!

Maybe you can make a suggestion at Woodhill 😉.

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Looks like the offer is up again guys. I sure would like to see some of
the more talented riders make it here for the competition. Especially
those of you with your own courses. What about HCR? That would be a
treat, just imagine a Coker on a Freeride course! Tommy, Bill, etc...
Lets try to make a showing this year, plenty of time to prepar and plan.
Everyone is welcome. Not to mention Unicycle.com is nearby. It is
like a trip to the Holy land for unicyclists.😉 I may keep bumping
this thread to the top every few days until some interest is generated.

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bugman said:

*Looks like the offer is up again guys. I sure would like to see some
of the more talented riders make it here for the competition.
Especially those of you with your own courses. What about HCR? That
would be a treat, just imagine a Coker on a Freeride course! Tommy,
Bill, etc... Lets try to make a showing this year, plenty of time to
prepar and plan. Everyone is welcome. Not to mention Unicycle.com is
nearby. It is like a trip to the Holy land for unicyclists.😉 I may
keep bumping this thread to the top every few days until some interest
is generated. *

It sounds (and looks) like a really cool event. I think I could most
likely make it to Atlanta in May for the competition... but I'd probably
only want to go if:

1. I knew there was going to be a halfway decent turnout of unicyclists.
Other Coker riders attending the event would be awesome. Perhaps you
could keep a running tab on the number of unicyclists who plan to attend
(and the wheel size they'll be riding).

2. The other, more important issue... from the few pictures I saw of
Full Throttle 2004, a lot of the stuff looks pretty extreme to be ridden
on a Coker. Not to say I wouldn't attempt some of it, but I can already
tell you that I am quite confident that I couldn't ride my Coker on any
one of the obstacles pictured succesfully (the way a bike does) and
there looked to be a lot of stuff that would be unridable for me, given
my current skill level. For example, in the firt picture (launch jump
and landing ramp)... I could probably ride the jump... but I'm not going
to get much distance - certainly not nearly enough to make it far enough
to land on the landing ramp! Regarding the second picture... I'm not
currently at the skill level to do drops that high on a Coker (and I
doubt that I'll be at that level by May... but who know, it is a
possibility)! The fourth picture looks to be a different view of the
first launch jump and landing ramp (same comment as earlier re/distance
off jump). Regarding the sixth picture of a teeter-totter... that looks
to be one SEVERE teeter-totter! Even if I could make it up the
teeter-totter on my Coker, I'll drop like a rock once the teeter-totter
swings down and I'd probably kill myself... though I could possibly
attempt it if I'm feeling really ballsy that day, but more than likely
I'd hold off on that one. Regarding the last picture, that drop is
beyond my current skill level on the Coker, so I doubt I could pull it
off by May. Thus it doesn't seem like it would make a lot of sense for
me to attend the event if the majority of obstacles are either unridable
for me... or I can't ride them the way they were intended. I would think
the smaller wheel uni's would encounter the same problems for certain
obstacles (such as the launch ramp and landing ramp), but they could
handle the big drops and the severe teeter-totter a lot better than I
could on my Coker... so it's probably a great event for the MUni guys.
If there were a decent number of obstacles that were doable for me on my
Coker (at my current skill level), then I would certainly be very
enticed to attend the event. As it looks currently, that course looks
really hardcore to be ridden on a Coker... even for
HardcoreCokerRider!

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