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For those of you who like rails, they seem to have a decent amount of
them for you to slide on 😄

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that is awsome

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If anyone wants to meet me in Philly to ride at this location, let me
know. Maybe we could even organize some small (or not so small) uni
gatherings at this location! It would be great to have a bunch of us
riding there at once! And if anyone has a digital camera they can bring
along... we can shoot and post some vids for everyone else to see 😄

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there's one of these in Denver, too. I'm not too close to either, so I
won't get to try one out, but it DOES look fun.

I'll stick to the nearly abandoned skatepark here 🙂

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I wish we had something like that here... I used to live near the
Newberg skatepark in oregon, I still wish I lived there...

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none of the skateparks around here allow bmx let alone unis. being stuck
in iowa sucks 😠 if anyone knows of pretty good jobs for a
uni/bike/juggling freak from iowa with a marketing degree, pm/aim me.

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markf said:

*none of the skateparks around here allow bmx let alone unis. being
stuck in iowa sucks 😠 if anyone knows of pretty good jobs for a
uni/bike/juggling freak from iowa with a marketing degree, pm/aim me.
*

where in iowa do you live, because when i was visiting my brother in
iowa city i rode at a skatepark there with no trouble at all

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I think I've ridden in that skatepark in some Tony Hawk videogame.:p

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kristopher_peck said:

*if you want to ride a skatepark, get a skateboard *

With all respect you've said that before (http://tinyurl.com/53aon) and
not surprisingly you got shot down. Have you tried riding a uni in a
skatepark? It's all skills and style and a bit of socialising so it's
all good.

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Why don't you ride a 20" there?

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Worminton said:

*Why don't you ride a 20" there? *

Because you can't ride to the tops of ramps like this on a 20"...

(or at least I've never seen it done before on a 20" and I couldn't do
it on a 20"😉

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Worminton said:

*Why don't you ride a 20" there? *

Although some of the other guys on the forum (like Andrew Carter) could
probably ride part of the way up and then turn sideways and hop the rest
of the way up.

Anyway, my thing is blasting up, off, and over steep ramps and obstacles
and doing stuff like that... doing things that can't be done on smaller
uni's... attacking ramps and obstacles that only the speed and momentum
of the Coker will allow you to conquer.

For example... I don't know if I'll be able to pull it off, but I'd like
to ride up to the top of the first ramp (in the far left of the attached
picture), then angle the Coker enough so that my pedals will clear the
wall next to it, and ride (over the angled ledge where the ramp meets
the horizontal section) and across the level catwalk and then off the
other side of the catwalk and down the ramp on the other side. I don't
think any other uni could do that without hopping. I hope I'll be able
to pull it off!

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is that at the actual woodward camp????

that place is supposed to be freakin sweet

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HardcoreCokerRider:

looks like a neat place. people definitly can ride to the tops of ramps
like those on a 20" (without stopping and hopping up it) and without too
much effort on a 24". coker is probably a lot easier and more flowy to
do it on though.

As far as skateparks go, I try to avoid riding at them. They really
don't work that well for unicycles (some of them do have great obstacles
though that are worth riding on). Most of the ramps are pretty useless,
unless your intention really is to just cruise around on them. I'd
think that others using the park could be a little hostile towards
someone on a coker at a place like that, but I guess you never know
until you try. I find that you get the least hastle at skateparks when
you are just sessioning on 1 or 2 obstacles at it as opposed to riding
around at it.

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uniryder said:

*HardcoreCokerRider:

looks like a neat place. people definitly can ride to the tops of
ramps like those on a 20" (without stopping and hopping up it) and
without too much effort on a 24". coker is probably a lot easier and
more flowy to do it on though.*

Yeah, I guess most of these ramps are probably manageable on a smaller
wheel... but they would seem to be real awkward without the speed and
smoothness that the Coker gives you... and probably not nearly as much
fun! Ramp riding is a completely different (and much more enjoyable)
experience on a Coker. I couldn't imagine most of the ramps being too
much fun on a smaller uni, but on a Coker... riding up ramps, riding
over the spine of jumps and back-to-back (mini) half-pipes, and
launching off tabletop jumps is tons of fun 😄 Plus... I doubt very much
that smaller uni's could get up many of the larger ramps and jumps (such
as the ones at Rays) and even if they could, those types of obstacles
probably wouldn't be much fun for the smaller uni's, anyway.

Consider the following comparison:

1. Riding your 20" or 24" up the quarter pipe ramp (in the attached
picture) and on to the top ledge (you'd probably just be able to muster
up enough momentum to barely make it on to the ledge if you could make
it at all) and then dropping on to the ramp below and riding down it.

2. Blasting up the ramp on your Coker with enough speed to get some air
off the top of the ramp... possibly even get enough air to clear the top
ledge and land on the ramp below.

The two scenarios are a world apart!

Quoted message said:

*As far as skateparks go, I try to avoid riding at them. They really
don't work that well for unicycles (some of them do have great
obstacles though that are worth riding on). Most of the ramps are
pretty useless, unless your intention really is to just cruise around
on them.*

You may change your mind about riding skateparks once you ride them on a
Coker! I would agree with you that they probably don't work all that
well for standard size uni's (even though I would think smaller uni's
could still have a blast on a decent number of ramps and rails)... but
the speed and smoothness that the Coker gives you enables many of the
ramps to work quite nicely for Coker riders! Just going off jumps and up
and down ramps on a Coker with it's seat height and speed is really
fun... anything beyond that is insane!

Quoted message said:

*I'd think that others using the park could be a little hostile
towards someone on a coker at a place like that, but I guess you never
know until you try. I find that you get the least hastle at
skateparks when you are just sessioning on 1 or 2 obstacles at it as
opposed to riding around at it.*

The majority of non-unicyclists I have encountered have never even seen
a unicycle with a 36" wheel before and are often impressed just by
seeing someone ride it, no less seeing it ridden up and down ramps and
over jumps, so I'm hoping that the people in the park will think it's
cool and have a positive reaction rather than act hostile. Like you
said... you never know until you try, so I'll let you know what
happens.

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we have a few CRAPPY 'skate parks' here, Catboy...i'm sure they'd work
for some little stuff

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Alien Stick said:

*we have a few CRAPPY 'skate parks' here, Catboy...i'm sure they'd
work for some little stuff *

Actually the Gardenerville skatepark is quite nice, and also the
Rattlesnake Skatepark is ok, but nothing special at all.

I need to go to a nice indoor street skatepark like the ESPN ones...

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there's one by RattleSnake?

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