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  1. 1)who do you ride most with?
    2)do they make you ride better?
    3)how did you meet?
    4)anything else you want 2 say
    if you don't ride with anyone put some details someone might look!
    Ben

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  2. 4) I dont ride with anyone. i live the sad lonely life of a unicyclist
    in crabville (maryland). theres a thread about unicyclists in the
    D.C./richmond area in "just conversation", so hopefully i'll find some
    people to ride with from there. at this point in time, the closest
    person i know that unicycles is Trip Glazer (muniracer), who lives about
    45 minutes away. also, i think he's a bit beyond me skillwise... :p

    perhaps if i just ride around everywere in public, someone will
    ultimately come up and tell me that they ride too. its worth a shot.

    -grant

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  3. well, I dont ride with anyone, but I have heard that if you ride with
    someone, you will get better really fast. kind of like with Dan Heaton
    and street unicycling. he would have invented it sooner, but there isnt
    anyone for him to ride with around his college campus. if there isnt
    anyone to ride with, you usually dont push yourself as much. and about
    Muniracer, if he is a bit beyond you skillwise, that is a good thing.
    ride with him. he will make you push yourself harder, and if you are
    doing something wrong, or need advice on how to pull something off, he
    can help you with it. Ideally, you want to ride with someone better than
    you. That always helps. you will be amazed at how fast you progress. I
    have learned this from my days of riding BMX. you will push yourself
    without even knowing it.

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  4. yeah i find i ride my best with phil.I ride with alot as he has the same
    styles as me1trials and 2muni although i do like a bit of flatland or
    downhill in the case of gliding!😄 i can honestly say i would not be
    half the rider i am today with out phil.before i met phil i thought
    crank grabs were something only the "pro's" did.
    I met phil through unicyclist
    ben

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  5. 1)who do you ride most with? My Dad
    2)do they make you ride better? No, but I make him ride better :p
    3)how did you meet? When I was born
    4)anything else you want 2 say: I ride best with Simon McAndrew. He is
    an awesome rider, and pushes me! I wouldnt be able to do half the stuff
    I can do without him! We dont ride trials the often with eachother, but
    when we do, it great!
    if you don't ride with anyone put some details someone might look: I
    only ride with my dad, but if there is anyone from in or around
    Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (UK), please pm/email me.

    Joe,

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  6. riding around in downtown Grand Rapids, I've found 3 or 4 people that
    can ride a unicycle. One of them might actually be interested in getting
    into it more...

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  7. I first started riding with Scott Wallis (S_Wallis) and Scott Stephens
    after meeting them on the trail while mountain biking. Then mkuhfahl
    found me on Bikemojo.com. I later ran into Joe Wilson while he was
    teaching his daughter to ride on a basketball course. Through Scott, I
    have met quite a few other riders from another city about 100 miles
    north of us. They are all more experienced than me and I have learned
    quite a bit from them

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  8. joe said:

    *Simon McAndrew. He is an awesome rider, and pushes me!*

    At BUC he pushed me too, butI think that's just because he's mean...
    :p

    Phil

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  9. I ride with some biker guys i met at the skate park their cool and all
    but they don't push me that much since they're impressed with pretty
    much anything i do

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  10. I got no one, so if you live in Nova Scotia, we should ride together.

    David

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  11. thinuniking said:

    *1)who do you ride most with?
    2)do they make you ride better?
    3)how did you meet?
    4)anything else you want 2 say
    if you don't ride with anyone put some details someone might look!
    Ben *

    1) Myself, I never can't do new things with others around me. Don't ask
    why.
    4) I tried to get as much better unicyclist than I am around me. And ask
    them questions. Frequently given answer was: "just practise" or "yeah,
    just like that, but then better".
    So in short: think about how to tackle your mistakes.
    If you make three times the same error; think about how to prevent it.
    Everything you do wrong (no matter what trick) is
    a) strearing
    b) speed
    or
    c) both
    (except for coasting where you cannot control speed).
    So whatever trick you want to learn: the more you think, the less you
    have to do, unless all you do is thinking, then the result is that you
    do nothing.

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    leo - errorist

    Leo Vandewoestijne [-lay?oh! fun-duh-wwho-styne-uhh-]
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    866-UNI-CYCL

    Dutch radio reporter Jaques Chapel in Athens, checking an ISDN line
    before a Olympic radio broadcast and getting used to security measures:
    "and suddenly I have a soldier pointing a machine gun in my back. So, I
    talk English, he responds Greek. So what do you do? Just ignore him and
    finish the job".
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  12. 1) I ride with my younger brother sometimes
    2)No, I make him ride better.
    3)Obvious.
    4)There is another guy in my neighborhood who used to unicycle. I rode
    with him once for about five minutes. I've also met three other
    unicyclists or ex-unicyclists while just riding around, but as far as I
    could tell, only one of them still did it at all.

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    "You did that hill easier than I could on a bicycle"- Some lady while
    passing me after an insignificant slope which I hardly noticed.
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  13. a) I ride with with my mates lewis and ryan, sometimes my girlfriend who
    has a uni and is learning
    b) were all roughly the same level at riding which means we push each
    other, once ryan has nailed a particualr gap then you have to do it,
    even if it scares you beacuse you get left behind. and it pushes me to
    get better than the other by trying new stuff which then pushes them.
    c) through school before we could uni though....
    d) i know of 5/6 other riders/ppl that can ride in the area aswell,
    Leighton Buzzard/Linslade in Bedfordshire

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  14. 1) I ride with my buddies Frank and Tim mostly, and when my brother
    (Sockmonstr) is around, I ride with him.

    2) I think my brother and I both make each other ride better. We'll
    teach each other our new skills and attempt new ones together. We had
    our first rockhopping excursion in Bar Harbor, Maine. Got a little
    analog video of it. I doubt it will ever become digitized.

    3) I met Frank and Tim on campus at UMAINE. Unicyclists like to band
    together, not like other sports like skateboarding where there's that
    competetive macho staredown sometimes. Unicyclists will see you on the
    street and come running after you "HEY I CAN DO THAT TOO!!"

    4) I got my wife a used Miyata flamingo at a yard sale, but she doesn't
    like to ride where people can see her, and now that we live in downtown
    Bangor, Maine, she doesn't ride with me at all.

    How many Unicyclists have significant others that ride with them?

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  15. thinuniking said:

    *1)who do you ride most with?
    2)do they make you ride better?
    3)how did you meet?
    4)anything else you want 2 say
    if you don't ride with anyone put some details someone might look!
    Ben *

    i have about 8 riders in my neighborhood but there are many more around
    town

    yes they do make me ride better, we are always comming up with lines and
    we challenge eachother

    they are just in my neighborhood. we just show up to best freinds house
    which is in the middle of everybody and we just go riding.

    not really.

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  16. 1. TheObieOne, ShadowUni, Tim, JVTFM
    2. Absolutely
    3. JVTFM introduced me to ShadowUni, who introduced me to TheObieOne
    and Tim
    4. Because we all got to know each other, we started SWAT.

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    you cannot progress
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  17. BoojiBoy said:

    *How many Unicyclists have significant others that ride with them? *

    I do.

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  18. 1) well usually I ride by myself cause the only other kid in town doesnt
    ride the way I do, he just rides, i enjoy balance and jumping and stuff.
    But just a week ago , my friend 30 min away just bought a unicycle to
    very soon we will be riding together
    2)not really, but in some things yes, we try new things
    3)umm, he lives down my street, other guy used to live 2 blocks away
    4)riding with a friend is way better, you can stay out longer bc u wont
    get bored as fast, or just keep encouraging each other

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    Saskatchewan boy, any others from my surrounding, or ladies, send me a
    message
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  19. 1) well usually I ride by myself cause the only other kid in town doesnt
    ride the way I do, he just rides, i enjoy balance and jumping and stuff.
    But just a week ago , my friend 30 min away just bought a unicycle to
    very soon we will be riding together
    2)not really, but in some things yes, we try new things
    3)umm, he lives down my street, other guy used to live 2 blocks away
    4)riding with a friend is way better, you can stay out longer bc u wont
    get bored as fast, or just keep encouraging each other

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    Saskatchewan boy, any others from my surrounding, or ladies, send me a
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  20. I'm with my best riding buds now!

    Simon and Aaron have came over to mine for the weekend. Friday, Saturday
    and Sunday. Pure unicycle fun and stupidity!

    Just watch this space for the video! :P

    I want to go and meet up with Ben (thinuniking), Phil (again) and
    TreePotato.
    Hopefully I will get the train down some time. Maybe for a unimeet - not
    this coming one though! 🙁

    Joe, (Simon and Aaron too)

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