How to ride no hands

sergio said:

http://www.giulianocalore.it/

Sergio
Pisa

I've been practicing; I should be able to dispense with the handlebars,
brakes, and other superfluous junk in about twenty years (when I'll be
85 years old).

Climbing the Stelvio Pass while playing four different musical
instruments in rotation may take a little longer. I can play the guitar
and piano a little bit, but I'll have to choose and learn two more.
Maybe I should go for the piccolo and kazoo.

Incredible!

sergio said:

http://www.giulianocalore.it/

Sergio
Pisa

The guy has got a nifty website with cute animations and all he really
does is ride a unicycle with two wheels.
Phhfffttt.

Go lean on a tower, Sergio.

ABS

Quoted message said:

The guy has got a nifty website with cute animations and all he really
does is ride a unicycle with two wheels.
Phhfffttt.
Go lean on a tower, Sergio.

I usually bend under it.

Meanwhile, you might enjoy this short video
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=tkD7pHdPNw0
Despite I have no audio here, I can well recognise the Stelvio road:
no less.

Just in case you care.
This very friday I should be in Padova. Should I look for this guy and
ask for some longer video recording?

Sergio
Pisa

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sergio said:

http://www.giulianocalore.it/

Sergio
Pisa

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The guy has got a nifty website with cute animations and all he >>really
does is ride a unicycle with two wheels.
Phhfffttt.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Go lean on a tower, Sergio.

A unicycle with two wheels?
-tom

Sergio Servadio said:

Quoted message said:

The guy has got a nifty website with cute animations and all he really
does is ride a unicycle with two wheels.
Phhfffttt.
Go lean on a tower, Sergio.

Quoted message said:

I usually bend under it.

Quoted message said:

Meanwhile, you might enjoy this short video

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=tkD7pHdPNw0

Quoted message said:

Despite I have no audio here, I can well recognise the Stelvio road:
no less.

Quoted message said:

Just in case you care. This very friday I should be in Padova.
Should I look for this guy and ask for some longer video recording?

Watch that road (day and night) under the security light:

http://webcam.popso.it/stelvio.php?PASSOALTO2

Jobst Brandt

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sergio said:

http://www.giulianocalore.it/

Sergio
Pisa

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The guy has got a nifty website with cute animations and all he >>really
does is ride a unicycle with two wheels.
Phhfffttt.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Go lean on a tower, Sergio.

A unicycle with two wheels?
-tom

Dear Tom,

Well, the lack of handlebars has a certain unicycle-like flair to it.

Technically, the following contraption is little different from a
modern tandem (two riders, two wheels) and everyone has handlebars,
but people can be pardoned for thinking huge tandem unicycle.

The earliest tandem was the Rucker, a pair of connected highwheelers
with no trailing wheel:

http://www.thetandemlink.com/articles/History.html

The dangling backbone on the hind wheel was for mounting and had no
small wheel:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mando_gal/2131485030/

http://www.thetandemlink.com/articles/ruckertandem.jpg

As the text points out, the 1884 design was not terribly successful.

How the front rider mounted is open to speculation, but a handy box or
railing was probably involved.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

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sergio said:

http://www.giulianocalore.it/

Sergio
Pisa

Quoted message said:

>The guy has got a nifty website with cute animations and all he >>really
>does is ride a unicycle with two wheels.
>Phhfffttt.

Quoted message said:

>Go lean on a tower, Sergio.

A unicycle with two wheels?
-tom

Dear Tom,

Well, the lack of handlebars has a certain unicycle-like flair to it.

Technically, the following contraption is little different from a
modern tandem (two riders, two wheels) and everyone has handlebars,
but people can be pardoned for thinking huge tandem unicycle.

The earliest tandem was the Rucker, a pair of connected highwheelers
with no trailing wheel:

http://www.thetandemlink.com/articles/History.html

The dangling backbone on the hind wheel was for mounting and had no
small wheel:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mando_gal/2131485030/

http://www.thetandemlink.com/articles/ruckertandem.jpg

As the text points out, the 1884 design was not terribly successful.

How the front rider mounted is open to speculation, but a handy box or
railing was probably involved.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

I started thinking about this a little more.
Years ago I saw a clown riding a unicycle and a fork mounted to a
wheel and handlebar. What was funny is that the fork was independent
from the unicycle. So that would be the two-wheeled uni.
Not sure how much of an impact the front wheel was for balance.
If I ever see him again, I'll ask him if he ever rode rollers.
-tom

sergio said:

Quoted message said:

The guy has got a nifty website with cute animations and all he really
does is ride a unicycle with two wheels.
Phhfffttt.
Go lean on a tower, Sergio.

I usually bend under it.

Meanwhile, you might enjoy this short videohttp://it.youtube.com/watch?v=tkD7pHdPNw0
Despite I have no audio here, I can well recognise the Stelvio road:
no less.

Just in case you care.
This very friday I should be in Padova. Should I look for this guy and
ask for some longer video recording?

Sergio
Pisa

Maybe if this craze takes off there might be a new market for down
tube shifters!

Colin Campbell said:

sergio said:

http://www.giulianocalore.it/

Quoted message said:

Sergio
Pisa

I've been practicing; I should be able to dispense with the handlebars,
brakes, and other superfluous junk in about twenty years (when I'll be
85 years old).

Climbing the Stelvio Pass while playing four different musical
instruments in rotation may take a little longer. I can play the guitar
and piano a little bit, but I'll have to choose and learn two more.
Maybe I should go for the piccolo and kazoo.

Incredible!

Sounds like it's time to buy a unicycle!