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    horace
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    Hiya!

    I'm sure most of you already know and some of you have kindly sponsored
    us already but I thought I give you a progress update anyway. During
    the time I was ermm ... "between jobs", I had a bit of time on my hands
    (this my excuse for the whole thing). At the time I had just started to
    pick up a unicycle and could only peddle 2 metres along our kitchen
    floor. Me and my house mate Ross decided it would be a challenge to
    unicycle between Bristol and Bath on the cycle track on unicycles. This
    would be no easy task, not only the fact that we could hardly ride the
    things it is 14 miles along the cycle track and unicycles don't have
    gears. We decided to do the ride for charity and chose The MS Society.

    From when we began the ride until now the ride has ballooned. From the
    original 2 riders I have now managed to recruit 17 other unicyclists
    from all over the country of varying different abilities.

    So far we have been published in The Bristol Evening Post, The Bath
    Chronicle and we have been interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol. On
    Saturday we expect to have a mention in The Telegraph. During looking
    for more riders I have emailed famous Aardman movie producers by
    following links through Google thinking they rid unicycles when, as I
    found out later, they don't (apparently it was someone else unicycling
    in a Grommit costume ... don't ask!). We have had a nice email back
    from Adam Hart-Davis thinking the ride was a great idea. That gave me
    the idea of contacting other celebrities, both Derren Brown and Bill
    Bailey seem to be out of the country on that date, funny that! :-)

    So far we have raised over £1000 but we're looking to push that up as
    much as possible. If you could please sponsor us on our ride on October
    22nd it would be most appreciated. Please see our website
    http://www.BristolToBathOnAUnicycle.co.uk.

    Rich

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  2. mark williamson
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    Adam Hart Davis is a really cool guy - and he's certainly into crazy
    bikes. He really ought to ride a unicycle, maybe he could explain to
    people how it's possible :-)

    This sounds like a really cool ride. Is it cycle path all the way? Is
    it paved? Shared with any other vehicles / pedestrians?

    It sounds really cool, anyhow, best of luck! I wish I could be there
    with you.

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    mark williamson

    Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat? And no
    pedals!
    Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard?
    Dave: Skateboards have wheels.
    Mark: My wheel has a wheel!
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  3. Danny Colyer
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    mark williamson said:

    Is it cycle path all the way? Is it paved? Shared with any other
    vehicles / pedestrians?

    AFAIK (and I'm sure Rich will correct me if I'm wrong), the ride will
    simply go from one end of the Bristol-Bath cyclepath to the other. In
    which case, yes it's cyclepath all the way (although it crosses two
    roads and a car park).

    Yes, it's paved.

    Yes, it's shared with other vehicles and pedestrians. It's a
    cyclepath, so is shared with bikes and trikes. Use by motor vehicles,
    however, is prohibited. We may be unfortunate enough to encounter
    equestrians and/or their leavings. The path passes through 3 local
    authority areas. One of the local authorities (Bath & North East
    Somerset) has opened its section of the path to equestrians on a trial
    basis.

    The path has its own website:
    http://www.bristolbathrailwaypath.org.uk/

    But you'll get a better idea of what it's like from this:
    http://www.paulspages.co.uk/bbcycle/

    About a third of the path also features on my daily commute, which you
    can see here:
    http://tinyurl.com/uzav7
    (unfortunately my virtual commute is desperately in need of updating,
    including bigger pictures, now that broadband is far more common and I
    have much more webspace than when I first created the page. I took new
    pictures back in May, but I still haven't got round to updating the
    page...)

    Anyway, the ride website now shows 19 riders planning to ride. This is
    going to be fun.

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    Danny Colyer

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  4. horace
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    Ok! We're now up to 22 unicyclists.

    Tomorrow morning I am going for an interview at 8:50am on BBC Radio
    Bristol with Drew (Ross's brother, see riders page) about the ride.
    They are also phoning us up on Sunday morning before the ride starts to
    do an on air interview before the ride begins. On Monday morning they
    will be doing a interview with us as well.

    On Sunday they will be playing an interview they have done with me on
    GWR FM as part of their news bullitens. I have a photographer arriving
    from The Bristol Evening Post before we set off. I also have a
    photographer from The Bath Chronicle meeting us at the other end. BBC
    Points West TV news are interested in filming us but it all depends on
    if another story breaks or not. The same is true of ITV News West who
    were thinking of doing some footage at the end.

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