It happened again!!!!!



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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 :D :D


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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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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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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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Jayne ZA wrote:
> *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 :D :D


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tennisgh22 wrote:
> *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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