Re: Background

none whatsoever, unless you count once-a-year skiing. once i got into
MUni and trials, it all changed.

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I have pretty much done it all. I started out riding Motorcycles. I
was sponsored for may years. During that time I picked up a
skateboard(mid 70's). Back when we had plexi-glass boards, urethane was
the newest thing in wheels, and some of us even had sealed bearings.😄
I was decent, best in my neighborhood, but nothing like the kids today.
Then after my last year racing motorcycles(1980) after destroying my
knee, my doctor said it would be okay to ride a bike for rehab. Little
did he know what he was approving. I had ramps in my cul-de-sac that I
would jump after reaching maximum velocity from a hill in front of
house. It was a long and fast hill. After destroying a few cheap
bikes, I started buying stuff at my local LBS. I started BMX on a brand
new Haro designed Chromoly Torker(the one with double tubes). I had
heard of a girl that lived a few miles away that was a factory sponsored
rider. Her parents had turned 3-4 acres of their yard into a BMX track.
After a few months of riding I decided to enter a race at a local
track. Son after I was asked to ride for the team of the local LBS I
had bought my Torker. It goes w/o saying my orthopedic surgeon was a
little dismayed.😄 It was at this LBS that I sat on my first unicycle.
I remember that thing popped out from under me and went flying into a
row of bikes. I did my best to play it off, but I remember thinking
there is no way it's that hard to ride! I tried again at another shop
about 5 years ago at another LBS. I was met with the same realization.
I couldn't ride a unicycle, and I sure as heck can't just hop on and
ride away. Also just about took out another row of brand new $1,000
bikes.:o Then while looking at juggling clubs on dube I saw that dang
unicycle again. This time I would not meet with defeat. I went to ebay
and started looking around. Low and behold there it was... The
unicycle I was meant to buy. A *TORKER*. It was meant to be, I had
come full circle and back to my childhood BMX roots.

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Yeah i'm an ex-skateboarder.

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13 uninterrupted years of NYC public school.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

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That's a really cool story, Bugman. Do you still do any of that stuff?

I thought I voted "other," but I must have accidentally clicked
something else. I own a skateboard, and a BMX bike, but never got any
good at either of them. Likewise, I own a razor scooter, but never did
anything useful with that, either.

My extreme "sport" background came from my friend Owen. We got bored one
day, and amused ourselves by finding these rusty, sharp pieces of metal
and chucking them at each other. It may not have required the skill of
skateboarding or BMX'ing, but it was twice as dangerous. We dubbed the
game, "I can feel the tetanus spreading!"

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sockmonster said:

*My extreme "sport" background came from my friend Owen. We got bored
one day, and amused ourselves by finding these rusty, sharp pieces of
metal and chucking them at each other. It may not have required the
skill of skateboarding or BMX'ing, but it was twice as dangerous. We
dubbed the game, "I can feel the tetanus spreading!" *

You sir... are an idiot 🙄 A pretty funny story but um... I
don't think I would ever play that. I did a tiny bit of skating but I
sucked at that so I voted none.

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One day I found I had 80 bucks and I decided to buy a Torker CX. Why
not?

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climbing, mountaineering, paragliding and many other non extream outdoor
and natur pursuits such as hiking canoeing, natur appreciation and
birding.

john

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Ex-Skateboarder

-Sabin

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for some reason, I can't vote,
my background includes skating, long boarding, snow boarding, trials
biking, xc running, and drinking.

unicycling is better than almost everything on that list.

mike

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Surfing.

Anyone else surf & uni?

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don't habla Espanol, El Nino is Spanish for... The Nino!"
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Raced motocross, enduroes and hare scrambles (motorcycles), then broke
my neck for the second time in 1990 and started racing mountain bikes to
get my "dirt fix". Decided to give MUni a try about 1 1/2 years ago,
then bought a Coker along with about 2 or 3 other uni's in between😄

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I'm surprised you didn't include mountain biking in your poll. That's
my background (for a year before unicycling).

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YA it wont let me vote either, i used to skateboard, i did that for a
few years and before that I dirt jumped ona bmx for a little bit but
just on little tiny stuff. When i learned to ride a uni it was around
the same time my board was getting old and it got water logged and lost
its pop in the tail and I just uniied more and ended up not buying a new
deck.
BRian

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I mountain biked first too.

David

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suicide mount.
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sorry about leaving mt. biking of the poll i didn't even think about
that one

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i started out downhill mountain biking. its kinda funny because when i
got my unicycle for christmas (thought a unicycle would be giggles) i
learned how to ride it and then i thought it would be funny to go down
one of the main downhill routes on it. at this time i didnt even know
that muni existed so i though this would be funny (not serious, joking,
what not) and so i did it and then i finally found out that people
actually ride trails on their unicycle, and they are not doing it for
giggles, but that they are serious about it. and thats how i started
muni.

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Skating, Snowboarding, a bit of mtn biking...

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"Unicycling is more about the center of concentration than the center of
balance."

If you don't want us riding on your concrete, don't make it in such damn
interesting shapes!

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i ski and snowboard, but don't do any tricks, just take steep runs
(black diamond, double black diamond, etc.)

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