Camping delights

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cathwood said:

*Hi,
I've just returned from a weekend camping at a place called Shell
Island.
*

Shell Island, called Mochras by the locals? (Not sure of the spelling,
could be Mocras.) Small island connected by a causeway accessible at
low tide, somewhere on the Welsh coast? If so, I had many family
camping holdiays there as a child.

Did you find my red spade?🙁

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Mikefule said:

*Shell Island, called Mochras by the locals? (Not sure of the
spelling, could be Mocras.) Small island connected by a causeway
accessible at low tide, somewhere on the Welsh coast? If so, I had
many family camping holdiays there as a child.

Did you find my red spade?🙁 *

Yeah. Right place, but didn't find any red spade. Sorry. Also didn't
find my son's tooth - which was the first of his ever to fall out. Never
mind the tooth fairy came anyway.

Small world.

Did you enjoy your camping holidays at Mochras? I could do without the
smelly toilets, rain and wind myself but it's part of our marital
'contract'. Jim comes to juggling/unicycle conventions with me and I go
camping/abroad with him. It works most of the time. As long as I can
take a unicycle along.

And wonder of wonders - I also did my usual 7 miles along the prom with
no other wheel comments. People were very positive and friendly. Must be
something in the air this weekend.

Cathy

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cathwood said:

*Jim comes to juggling/unicycle conventions with me and I go
camping/abroad with him.*

Shell Island isn't abroad. Accept nothing less than Paris. You know
you're worth it!😉

We had great holidays on Shell Island. It was before I became a
vegetarian, and my dad and I used to collect winkles at low tide, then
cook them for supper. I remember a stormy weekend there when we had to
tie the frame tent to the car with the tow rope. When I was just
getting into snorkelling (I later became a very keen scuba diver) I
spent many hours in the murky waters of Mochras, and saw my first wild
fish. I was so startled that I stood up. (It was only shallow - I was
even shorter then!)

Oh, happy days.🙄

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Thats neat.

We're going camping this weekend, Im taking my muni of course, but it
will be wayyyy back in the backcountry, im sure there's noone for miles
and miles away. Real wildernessy. Only about two hours away from my
house.🙂

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Thats neat.

We're going camping this weekend, Im taking my muni of course, but it
will be wayyyy back in the backcountry, im sure there's noone for miles
and miles away. Real wildernessy. Only about two hours away from my
house.🙂

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Cathy,

We do quite a bit of camping over the summer at a local campground and
always take our trailer full of unicycles. The campground kids love to
try them and some of the kids actually learn to ride by the end of the
weekend. Over the years, we've seen many kids come back with their own
unicycles. Just happened again this past weekend.

We weren't camping but I was in charge of the music for the church
service at the campground yesterday so we were there. One boy who
learned on our unicycles last month was back camping again sporting a
brand new 24" uni. He had become pretty proficient and was tooling
around the grounds to the pleasure of his parents. I was pretty proud
of him as well.

We had to scoot right after church to get to 'our own unicycle
performance' (http://tinyurl.com/dgmp6).

Camping and uni's are just the perfect fit.

Bruce

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Quoted message said:

Shell Island isn't abroad. Accept nothing less than Paris. You know
you're worth it!

Thanks Mikefule.

Will Turkey do? We're going on Sunday. And yes, I am taking my uni, the
20" will just about fit into my suitcase!

Quoted message said:

The campground kids love to try them and some of the kids actually
learn to ride by the end of the weekend. Over the years, we've seen
many kids come back with their own unicycles.

Yoopers, that must feel great. So far I have only lured one person into
unicycling - my husband. Mind you, there are a few on the way at the
circus club.

Keep up the good work.

Cathy

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I was thinking about how small you could pack down a unicycle for
traveling, and I found these folding pedals: 'Folding pedals'
(http://tinyurl.com/ao7re)

They are very expensive, but there could be some others out there that
are cheaper. It would be a good way to pack up a unicycle, and
reassemble it with out any tools. You could use a quick release for the
seat post, and fold the pedals, and it wouldn't take up that much
room.

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innes said:

*I was thinking about how small you could pack down a unicycle for
traveling, and I found these folding pedals: 'Folding pedals'
(http://tinyurl.com/ao7re)

They are very expensive, but there could be some others out there that
are cheaper. It would be a good way to pack up a unicycle, and
reassemble it with out any tools. You could use a quick release for
the seat post, and fold the pedals, and it wouldn't take up that much
room.

Innes *

I guess I don't understand the "no tools" part. It's very easy to pack
a small assortment of tools in suitcases, they really don't take up a
lot of room. So instead of spending gadzillions on folding pedals for
each uni, one of these is about $20 and one tool can be used for
different unicycles. I have one. It's a worthy investment.

B

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We need to be careful here. A unicycle tyre contains a combustible
substance under pressure. A spanner can give someone quite a nasty
bruise. Whilst it would be comparatively easy to sneak a suitcase full
of hard drugs and a pair of explosive shoes into the Whitehouse or the
Palace of Westminster, security may balk at allowing a unicycle onto a
plane!

Joking apart, Cathwood, make sure you let the air out of your tyre. The
aircraft hold will be at low pressure. It's only about 5 - 10 psi
difference, but quite sudden, and you don't want any nasty banging
noises as you take off. Don't try to carry tools or a pump etc. in your
hand luggage as they will be stopped and confiscated by security.
Baggage handlers do NOT treat baggage with tender concern as if it were
their own, so pack the unicycle carefully.

Lastly, we all demand photos of you unicycling in Turkey, complete with
yashmak, cheap carpet, and cup of incredibly strong sweet coffee. Extra
bonus points if you're carrying a Greek flag.

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yoopers said:

*I guess I don't understand the "no tools" part.
B *

I was thinking about being able to pack a unicycle in my car or my van
at work, where it wouldn't take up much room, and it would be very quick
to set up, I know you can take on and off pedals with a spanner, I think
you missed the point a bit.

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Mikefule said:

*We need to be careful here. A unicycle tyre contains a combustible
substance under pressure. A spanner can give someone quite a nasty
bruise. Whilst it would be comparatively easy to sneak a suitcase
full of hard drugs and a pair of explosive shoes into the Whitehouse
or the Palace of Westminster, security may balk at allowing a unicycle
onto a plane!

Joking apart, Cathwood, make sure you let the air out of your tyre.
The aircraft hold will be at low pressure. It's only about 5 - 10 psi
difference, but quite sudden, and you don't want any nasty banging
noises as you take off. Don't try to carry tools or a pump etc. in
your hand luggage as they will be stopped and confiscated by security.
Baggage handlers do NOT treat baggage with tender concern as if it
were their own, so pack the unicycle carefully.

Lastly, we all demand photos of you unicycling in Turkey, complete
with yashmak, cheap carpet, and cup of incredibly strong sweet coffee.
Extra bonus points if you're carrying a Greek flag. *

I'll do my best.

thanks for the tyre advice. I took the uni to Morrocco in April. I
didn't know about letting the tyre down. It could have been nasty!

Cathy

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cathwood said:

*Mind you, there are a few on the way at the circus club.*

never underestimate the power of a single, comitted, evangelical

unicyclist...innes said:

*I was thinking about how small you could pack down a unicycle for
traveling, and I found these 'Folding pedals'
(http://tinyurl.com/ao7re)*

there is also the 'the clip-on option' (http://tinyurl.com/a92fe)

'more affordable folding pedals' (http://tinyurl.com/dqpwz)

and 'less affordable clip-ons' (http://tinyurl.com/7d83j)

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Mikefule said:

* Extra bonus points if you're carrying a Greek flag. *

😄

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Mikefule said:

*Don't try to carry tools or a pump etc. in your hand luggage as they
will be stopped and confiscated by security.*

I took my trials uni on a plane a while back and in my naive ignorance
of the great danger of plane hijacking 😉 I took a big heavy socket
wrench in my backpack. I think they found it funny that I even
attempted to take it with me onto the plane.

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Have to disagree on the deflateing the trye for air travel issue. most
unis a`re only a low pressure tyre and most people have no more than
60psi in them. An inflated trye protects the rim better than a flat one.
If its in a suitcase its not an issue and you can do what you like, no
one will know how much air is in the trye.

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Ah, one of the things I love about this forum is if one person thinks
one thing, then the next person will thing the opposite. I guess the
thing is that there are few absolute certainties in unicycling. You can
just do whatever you want.

Cathy

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cathwood said:

*Ah, one of the things I love about this forum is if one person thinks
one thing, then the next person will think the opposite.
*

Oh, I don't agree with that.:p

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