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On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:58:04 -0700, Zoot Katz <[email hidden]> from Balsa Pacific Aero Ltd.

Engineering & Bicycle Mongery said:

Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.

Your post is off topic, then. 🙂

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Kevan Smith said:

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:58:04 -0700, Zoot Katz <[email hidden]> from Balsa Pacific Aero

Ltd. Engineering & Bicycle Mongery said:

Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.

Your post is off topic, then. 🙂

Why?

If he got one more he could make a bicycle.

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Joe Potter said:

Your post is off topic, then. 🙂

Why?

Zoot does not ride a pro bike or wear the proper pro kit, therefore he is always OT!

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Quoted message said:

Kevan Smith said:

Your post is off topic, then. 🙂

Why?

Zoot does not ride a pro bike or wear the proper pro kit, therefore he is always OT!

"Fabrizio Mazzoleni"

So, what do you think about the new Bianchi jerseys?

Pat in TX (but my Bianchi is yellow)

In article said:

Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.

Work out some juggling routines, and you could busk.

Or at least bring home a sack of grapefruits on it.

cheers, Tom

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Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:40:11 -0700, <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Tom

Keats) said:

In article said:

Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.

Work out some juggling routines, and you could busk.

Or at least bring home a sack of grapefruits on it.

cheers, Tom

It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
things. I believe it.

Then I'll need to learn to ride with a tail if that's possible.

Juggling will have to wait.
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"Zoot Katz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.
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OK, so what's your plan? Tell us now, before you break some fingers and can't post any more.

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 05:56:38 GMT, <[email hidden]>, "Mike Kruger"

Quoted message said:

"Zoot Katz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.
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OK, so what's your plan? Tell us now, before you break some fingers and can't post any more.

First, I've got to get a seatpost clamp to keep the saddle from twisting around. Then I'd like to be
able to ride to the end of the hallway without dabbing a wall.

These unicycle people are genuinely nuts.
ftp://ftp.winternet.com/users/kfuchs/Unicycling/iuf/iufrules.text
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In article said:

It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
things. I believe it.

Chris Holm makes it look soooo easy <g>

Quoted message said:

Then I'll need to learn to ride with a tail if that's possible.

Juggling will have to wait.

I've just realized how I've always taken for granted that handlebars provide us with somewhere to
put our hands.

cheers, Tom

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In article said:

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:40:11 -0700, <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Tom

Keats) said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.

Work out some juggling routines, and you could busk.

Or at least bring home a sack of grapefruits on it.

cheers, Tom

It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
things. I believe it.

Then I'll need to learn to ride with a tail if that's possible.

Juggling will have to wait.

Juggling you can pick up in 10 minutes, the unicycle is a lot harder.

In article said:

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:40:11 -0700, <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Tom

Keats) said:

In article said:

Some well-intentioned soul gave me a unicycle.

Work out some juggling routines, and you could busk.

Or at least bring home a sack of grapefruits on it.

cheers, Tom

It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
things. I believe it.

Then I'll need to learn to ride with a tail if that's possible.

Juggling will have to wait.

OK, what does it mean to ride with a tail? I mean if you're not born with one...

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:20:40 -0700, <[email hidden]>, Leonard Migliore

Quoted message said:

OK, what does it mean to ride with a tail? I mean if you're not born with one...

Velocipedosaurs ride bikes and have 5' tails.

If one can lean forward to counter balance the tail then it will look okay. Sitting bolt upright is
for sucky little mammalian unicyclists.
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zk

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:06:10 GMT, <[email hidden]>,

(Paul Southworth) said:

Juggling you can pick up in 10 minutes, the unicycle is a lot harder.

I once spent several hours picking up my juggling attempts.
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zk

Pat wrote in message ...

Quoted message said:

So, what do you think about the new Bianchi jerseys?

Pat in TX (but my Bianchi is yellow)

Quoted message said:

While I ride blue kit, I really think that Bianchi's kit needs to darken the blue and get more
graphics on the jersey and shorts, as it looks too division three.

Ullrich looks dorky in his white Rudys, it must be a German thing, as Baldato, Pellizotti, and Me
look really cool in our white framed Axley Raptor Race shades!

But then Italians can get away with tweaking the standards, as just the other day I was out on a
tempo ride wearing the classic Briko Stinger shades and was getting great results with female
motorists when I was hanging around the U.S. border crossing at Hunnington.

Now you go out on a ride and be a German or Dutch pro rider and see if you get away with the
classic look!

In article said:

It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
things. I believe it.

My kids picked it up in about 2 days. It took me a good week.

Quoted message said:

Juggling will have to wait.

If you already know how to juggle, it is easier. IMO, jugling is harder to learn than Unicycling.

Oh... Get yourself a an old handlebars, and make beleive you are riding a bicycle.

-Pete
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(Pete Hickey) from Rarely. said:

In article said:

It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
things. I believe it.

My kids picked it up in about 2 days. It took me a good week.

So it's a center of mass thing? Keep it low?

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Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:57:26 -0500, <[email hidden]>, Kevan Smith

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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:33:03 GMT, [email hidden] (Pete Hickey) from

Rarely. said:

In article said:

It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
things. I believe it.

My kids picked it up in about 2 days. It took me a good week.

So it's a center of mass thing? Keep it low?

Having thus far succeeded in making only one and a half crank revolutions without dabbing, I
couldn't say.

Unicycle hockey is huge in Germany and there's a unicycle polo team in New Orleans. (I don't know if
it's the fanciful beach ball and French loaf variety or something played with mallets) Basketball is
another game for unicyclists.
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"Zoot Katz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Unicycle hockey is huge in Germany

This is on the same order as [censored] Ryan's statement that recumbents were taking over in Wisconsin.

Germany is a big country, and I find it quite credible that there are twelve people in the whole of
Germany who would be playing unicycle hockey, but "huge"?

But, being a thorough researcher, I typed "unicycle hockey" into Google. Sure enough, the first four
entries are from Germany, including the International Unicycle Hockey Association.
dionysos.mpch-mainz.mpg.deuniOpen ↗ This lists 38 teams in Germany -- not huge but at
least not nonexistent.

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 04:01:03 GMT, <[email hidden]>, "Mike Kruger"

Quoted message said:

But, being a thorough researcher, I typed "unicycle hockey" into Google. Sure enough, the first
four entries are from Germany, including the International Unicycle Hockey Association.
dionysos.mpch-mainz.mpg.deuniOpen ↗ This lists 38 teams in Germany -- not huge but at
least not nonexistent.

I'll admit unicycle hockey isn't likely to become an Olympic event any time soon.

I think it's huge compared to the other counties' listings of teams. There's a total of ten players
in Japan and 15 in Canada and France.
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