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    Krashin'Kenny
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    This evening, I changed the cranks on my MUni back to 150's as per
    Scott's suggestion and headed out to do a quick 4 mile loop around the
    neighborhood. BTW, the 150's felt very comfortable after riding the 150
    equippped Coker so much lately.
    Anyway, I was riding down a small hill about 1/2 mile from the house
    on my return trip when a big landscaping company truck came around me
    and abruptly turned onto the next street. The driver jumped out of the
    truck and called for me to come back.
    As I rode up to him, I just had to say it! "You used to ride
    unicycles, didn't you?" He quickly responded with a yes and asked if I
    would let him give it try. He freemounted, wobbled a few feet and asked
    if I had a few minutes, he'd like to try a few more times. We talked as
    he practiced and I learned that he last rode about 14 years ago on a
    regular basis. After about 5 minutes, he was riding up and down the
    street, riding backwards and idling a little, wanting to know where he
    could buy a unicycle locally.
    As I told my wife about my experience, she informed me that my new
    acquaintence is also my next door neighbor's yardman!! I guess I'll
    have to convince him to take a little time off and go riding with us
    locals 😄 😄

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    If you ain't crashing, you ain't going fast enough!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. tennisgh22
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    what a great story! my 80 year old neighbor (who is also a former CIA
    agent) told me he used to be able to ride when he was young. It hard to
    believe. They probably didn't even have unicycles then.

    -grant

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    The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a
    capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety
    labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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  3. gerblefranklin
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    Nice! The exact thing happened to me yesterday! I found out that there's
    a guy who lives about 3 blocks away who used to ride. I was doing trials
    practice in front of my house when he stopped by and said hi. We started
    talking and he noted I was wearing armour, which he said was a good
    idea. Then, I did some hopping, and asked him if he ever did anything
    like it. And to my surprise, he said at one point he wsas able to do
    picnic tables (ground to table, rubber to rubber)! Then he complained
    about his wheel, and I asked if he had splined. It turns out he rides
    almost exactly the same muni wheel as me! AND, on top of that, I've been
    looking for a place where I can do some machining for a SH-like muni
    frame, when he told me he owns a shop with an aluminum (and everything
    else, of course) MIG welder and a smally milling machine! He made his
    muni frame himself. We're planning on making a few aluminum frames, and
    I'm hoping to make myself a new trials frame (the Onza crown is a
    knee-knocker). So, I too met someone in the neighborhood who rides the
    same kind of stuff as me. That brings to 3 the number of serious trials
    riders within 20 miles of me, and brings to five the number of
    unicyclists in the neighborhood, although one I'm out of touch with, and
    another is no longer riding. But still, there are lots of riders nearby.

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    Don't you think it's a cruel irony that acting like a G.I. Joe in the
    army can get you a Medal, while playing with one can get you thrown out?
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  4. Jayne ZA
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    Kenny - I saw the title and thought "OH NO, he's gone and bashed his
    hand AGAIN". It was such a relief to see that you've found another
    riding buddy. 🙂

    ENJOY

    Jayne

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    Being a statistician means never having to say you're certain

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  5. Krashin'Kenny
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    Jayne ZA said:

    *Kenny - I saw the title and thought "OH NO, he's gone and bashed his
    hand AGAIN". It was such a relief to see that you've found another
    riding buddy. 🙂

    ENJOY

    Jayne *

    Sorry 'bout that, didn't mean to alarm you🙂 🙂
    It's just that this is the 3rd or 4th time I've had someone in a
    automobile go out of their way to ask if they could try one of my uni's.
    It just seems so odd, it NEVER happened to me when I was on a bike 😄 😄

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  6. johnfoss
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    tennisgh22 said:

    *80 year old neighbor (who is also a former CIA agent) told me he used
    to be able to ride when he was young. It hard to believe. They
    probably didn't even have unicycles then. *


    Unicycles have been around since 1870 or so. But according to what I've
    heard, there weren't any commercially made ones until the 1940s
    (Nissen). And those were probably expensive. I've never seen one, or
    even a picture, but JeanPaul Jenack tells me they used to be made. It
    may be written up in old issues of the USA Newsletter.

    JeanPaul's father Bill Jenack, the founder of the USA and Newsletter
    editor for the first few years, started riding in 1933. So he, and
    probably your neighbor, made their own from bike parts.

    I met a deaf and blind woman a few years ago who told me she used to
    ride a unicycle when she was a kid (before losing her "senses"😉. She
    grew up in the South Bronx and said a group of kids in her neighborhood
    all rode around back in the 40s.

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    who prefers not to wear one, in the 1991 video Rough Terrain Unicycling
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