Parade fun

We had about 30 riders in the Atlanta parade. We probably had 50 riders
in the Marietta parade earlier in the day. Lots of kids. Great talent,
too.

This picture is from the Atlanta parade.

Front Left with flag shirt - Al Lieffring on his Chopper
Front Center - ?? (who is that?)
Right with yellow helmet - John Drummond of UDC
Back left with Uncle Sam hat - Chad G. aka the Bugman
Back right with floppy hat - Jeffrey aka Munipsycho

Plus:
Amy D driving the yellow Offical UDC (not a hummer) Jeep. She kept us
fully hydrated. Thanks Amy!

Followed by the Bugman's white Atlanta Unicycle Club Jeep. The little
girl on top of the Bugman's white Jeep is my 7 year old daughter. She
was tired after the first parade earlier in the day and had earned a
rest.

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This picture is from the Marietta Parade early in the Day.

The photo was taken by the proud mother of the little girl in the center
of the picture. It was posted by the proud father.

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Go paraders!

Mike, I always look forward to your pictures. But that clown getup is
one of the scariest I've ever seen! The makeup is very cool, but I bet
you sent some little kids screaming. :eek:

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johnfoss said:

*Go paraders!

Mike, I always look forward to your pictures. But that clown getup is
one of the scariest I've ever seen! The makeup is very cool, but I bet
you sent some little kids screaming. :eek: *

Our local airbrush artist is really good, he painted all nine of our
faces, over an hour and a half of detailed work. A SMILE will always
make a scary face easier to digest.

(QUOTE)We had about 30 riders in the Atlanta parade. We probably had 50
riders in the Marietta parade earlier in the day. Lots of kids. Great
talent, too. (QUOTE)

Nice work on two parades in one day, no helmets though. We can't ride
w/o helmets.

Here's one more pic.

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Another pic, twin brothers riding on top of one another.

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We had 18 riding in the Canonsburg, PA parade. All from our newly
formed club, The Wonders. We had a great time, but it was hot and humid
and the parade was about a mile long. We were all wasted despite
drinking water along the way.

Biggest hit of the day was having most of the riders fall off the
unicycles and play dead everytime the Militia Men fired their rifles.
They were marching directly behind us and were shooting over our heads.
Got a big laugh every time.

I'll post a pic after I learn how to make it smaller so it will be
accepted by this forum. :o

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bill i live in pa to. where is Canonsburg. we shoud ride togather

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aspenmike said:

*We can't ride w/o helmets.*

aspenmike said:

*Another pic, twin brothers riding on top of one another. *

Is the bottom twin wearing a helmet? I can't quite tell.

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Great pics. Parades are a blast. I never knew till Eyal, Hans and I
rode in a parade a few weks ago in Santa Barbara. My legs were dead
from Muniing for 2 1/2 hours earlier that morning. I had no idea how
strenuous parade riding is on a muni, since you go about .005 miles an
hour. Never done so much idling and wheel walking in my life. We got
behind an exotic dance corps driven by a fusalage of conga drummers and
it was smokin'. And a girl (very comely) in front of us--part of hula
hoop dance troup--wasn't wearing any underware beneath her mid-thigh,
gold sequined skirt. She was a crowd favorite. Only in Santa Barbara .

munipsycho said:

*Is the bottom twin wearing a helmet? I can't quite tell. *

I think there is something in the rules that says wearing a human on
your head counts as a helmet.

John, I would think that hula hoop girl would be quite distracting and
make it difficult to ride. You get a lot of credit for accepting the
challenge and remaining behind her.

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billham said:

*

Biggest hit of the day was having most of the riders fall off the
unicycles and play dead everytime the Militia Men fired their rifles.
They were marching directly behind us and were shooting over our
heads. Got a big laugh every time.

*

Here's a little 2'20" video of the parade. The shooting starts toward
the end of the vid. The crowd ate it up!

http://tinyurl.com/9p96r

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billham said:

*

Biggest hit of the day was having most of the riders fall off the
unicycles and play dead everytime the Militia Men fired their rifles.
They were marching directly behind us and were shooting over our
heads. Got a big laugh every time.

*

Here's a little 2'20" video of the parade. The shooting starts toward
the end of the vid. The crowd ate it up!

http://tinyurl.com/9p96r

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billham said:

*

Biggest hit of the day was having most of the riders fall off the
unicycles and play dead everytime the Militia Men fired their rifles.
They were marching directly behind us and were shooting over our
heads. Got a big laugh every time.

*

Here's a little 2'20" video of the parade. The shooting starts toward
the end of the vid. The crowd ate it up!

http://tinyurl.com/9p96r

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Atlanta Unicycle Club 4th of July pictures

If anyone has more AUC parade pictures, I'll be happy to post them.

http://www.atlantaunicycleclub.com/album/20050704/

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billham said:

*Biggest hit of the day was having most of the riders fall off the
unicycles and play dead everytime the Militia Men fired their rifles.*

That's a PERFECT example of the kind of stuff that can "kill" in a
parade! Very easy to do, and everybody loves it.

The hard part, of course, is arranging to be in front of that same group
in every parade...

That reminds me of one of the fun things I sometimes do with the "local
environment" in parades. Slalom the horse doo-doo. Ride toward it like
you don't know it's there. Then at the last second, jam on the brakes
and freak out, with lots of back-pedaling arm motion. Still out of
control, do a shaky zig-zag through the droppings. Come out backwards at
the end for extra credit. Guaranteed laugh for the people who are paying
attention!

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Lucy and I made our own parade.

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Great video unidaddy and AUC is looking good! it's fun to look at all
the parade pics. Here's a group photo of The Wonders before the
Canonburg, PA parade.

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