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  1. The unicycle trials course that Zack Baldwin and I have been steadily
    building up for the past 3 summers finally makes its film debut in this
    movie. The riding isn't anything spectacular, but the awesome music and
    mesmerizing intro make up for it!

    This was filmed over my winter break at home, in early January.

    It's fun to mess around on this course.. but honestly, I've spent about
    90% of my time on the course building stuff, and only 10% of the time
    riding it.

    Others have also helped out at random points in the making of this
    thing (John Hooten, John Foss, Brian Lundgren, Ryan Atkins, Dan Heaton,
    Sabin Arditty, Mike Clark, and one of my non-unicycling friends Kevin.
    The majority of it was done by myself and Zack Baldwin.

    Total Running Time: 7:42

    LINKS: (hint, sacrifice 30 minutes of waiting (or hours) for the big
    WMV, or quicktime versions!)

    [WMV, 33.6 mbs]
    http://tinyurl.com/nkxzf

    [WMV, 60 mbs]
    http://tinyurl.com/k2ayb

    [Quicktime H.264, 110 mbs]
    http://tinyurl.com/r4o2j

    Enjoy!

    -Jess

    p.s. If you have any ideas for the name of the rail, let me know.
    I've only gotten to about a foot past the midway point. Who woulda
    thought that a curvy rail like that would be so damn hard!?

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  2. down loading!!!! ill report back soon

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  3. WOW!!! that is amazing! i would pay to use that course, that thing is
    gonna give endless amounts of fun riding, i liked the way you did the
    intro too =p, great riding also =p i wish i had enough materials and a
    big enough yard to make a course like that.

    Goldie Rules!!!

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    from chosen:

    can you give me a shoutout in your sig. some thing like i love
    jonny....or jonny is the coolest. or be creative. but pleeeasssee can i
    have a shoutout from you?

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  4. thats no fair i dont even have a back yard

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  5. yea you should totally charge like 2 dollars admition...depending how
    many unicyclists you know...youd be richer than you were before...any
    way...really really cool course ..it enourmous....i have a bigenough
    backyard but my parents would kill me if i put a gigantic trials coarse
    there

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  6. nice course. i loved it. i would pay to ride it.

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  7. that's what i want in my back yard. damn. that looks liek tons of fun.
    where'd you get all that stuff? my garage course is nice partly because
    it's year round, but yours is too geographically, but yours is like 10x
    bigger than mine.

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  8. thats awsome good riding too. to bad you couldnt make the trials ride at
    moab.

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  9. Damn you server must be really slow, it took me a whole three minutes to
    download that quicktime version, a whole 616 kbps.

    Seriously though; What an awesome intro. The idea and the feeling it
    gave me felt like a real movie that I would see in theatres I don't
    know if this is due to the medium used or just what you did but it
    worked well. I also liked the name of the course, you must love this
    course to have put soooo much time and effort into building it and it
    really shows.

    The variety in the park and the sheer amount of stuff makes it look
    like you must have really planned alot of it out, I must say I am
    jealous of your dedication.

    The riding in it was really cool, I especialy liked the speedy riding
    down those north shore style banks.

    I would love to see another video shot there!

    Thanks.

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  10. nice movie, I'm jealous of that trials course!!
    coulda done without the [censored] part though.

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  11. I Laughed. I cried. That was some of the best 7 minutes 42 seconds Ive
    spent lately!

    Has anyone ridden the whole curvey rail?
    ...you could name it "the enchalada" so that when you finally get it,
    you can say you rode the whole enchalada....maybe 🙂 ....corny...yes

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  12. that is a sweet course i wish i had a backyard cuz thats what i would do
    with it. and i also wish that i had a chicken named goldie...that would
    be ace!

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    I'm too hardcore to type. I just punch the keyboard and delete the
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  13. Good vid

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  14. That has to be one of the most insiring trials videos i have ever seen.
    Thanks you for taking the time to film/edit it. It makes me want to
    road trip to CA this summer.

    Budd White

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  15. that was cool. i really liked the editing.

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  16. Awesome vid Jess!!! I remember you were telling me about this course on
    one of our Santa Barbara muni rides. Inspires me to keep working on my
    course. I really like those large wooden cable spools!!

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  17. Ive never seen anyhting that amazing.. that skinny omg it's insanly sick
    !.. honnestly I think this is the greatest vid out this year..

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  18. That was awesome, my only suggestion is to put a couch in there
    somewhere. The kind of couch you find on the side of the road. That
    was also, by a wide margin, the best intro I've seen on any uni video.

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  19. dorfman said:

    my parents would kill me if i put a gigantic trials coarse there

    I promised my dad if I stopped using the course or he needed it gone I
    would dismantle it, and get rid of it.

    markf said:

    where'd you get all that stuff?

    The two huge spools, the stairs, the "triangle" pallets (with
    connecting rails to the big spool) all came from the trials course that
    Zack built at his house. Meanwhile, I saw numerous medium sized spools
    in the construction yard at my old highschool (they were doing
    construction). I asked the principle, and he gave me a truckload of
    spools. I had a small trials course at my house with that, and a bunch
    of pallets. Eventually, Zack moved all his stuff to my house, and we
    combined our courses (June, 2004). We got even more wood by driving
    around to house constuction sites and asking the workers for warped
    wood. They had all kinds of stuff to give us. Here's a 'thread'
    (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33145) I made when
    we first started making the love 99 course. There are some good
    beginning photos there.

    ntappin said:

    you must have really planned alot of it out

    Actually, we pretty much just used what type of stuff we had. It grew
    really slowly, so every once in awhile there would be a new little
    thing added. We did have plans for a crazy teeter that once one landed
    on the vulcrum, the whole teeter would pivot and swing around. Similar
    to the one Kris rides in U2. Obviously, that never happened...

    mango said:


    Has anyone ridden the whole curvey rail? ..you could name it "the
    enchalada"

    Nope, no one has ridden the whole Enchalada. [dig the name]

    I'm glad you like it!

    -Jess

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  20. That course is awesome. How does it hold up to the elements? If we
    built something like that around here and left it outside it would
    probably fall apart after a year. Wish I could ride it. You should
    host a competition. 🙂

    Loved the video too. Some cool shots and editing. The animals kicked
    ass.

    J

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