Not quite your average unicycle movie...

[podzol]

Redwelly,

Thanks for sharing. I can't say enough good about this. Witty and in excellent taste.

I hope you find the time to make more videos.

You should consider entering it in a short film festival. I'd say the beginning is absolutely priceless. I just about fell out of my seat the first showing.

Blake

[Kris]

i thought the movie was one of the better ones that i've seen. It mixed comedy, some sweet trials, and a variety of different songs.

[steveyo]

Totally, completely, and in all other ways fantastic.

You certainly should enter it in a short-films competition.

[MrBoogiejuice]

That was wicked. It's cool to hear Gymnopodie in a uni movie.

I liked the sped up chase scene around the roundabout very muchly.

Brilliant! Very unconventional.

The only conventional thing (unicycle-video-wise speaking) seems to be
the collection of bloopers at the end. And that's a good thing.

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
--
"As with all great social movements, the origins of mountain unicycling are unclear. - Hannah Nordhaus (Los Angeles Times)"

[zack]

OMG

[s7ev0]

You should keep making longer and longer movies, and phase the unicycle out gradually, so when you're an internationally renowned director, you can have a fleeting glimpse of a unicycle in every movie as your signature, a la Hitchcock.

Alternatively, keep making similar movies - with MORE unis!

A great alternative to the Universe vids (not that I don't love them too!)

[unicycle6869]

I watched it and don't know if I liked it or not? On one hand I liked the style of it and cause it was different, on the other hand it was a little bit on the boring side with little tricks. So I guess I'm stuck somewhere in the middle. I didn't love it, I didn't hate it, I just think it's an OK movie.

[TitaniumMonkey]

lol
That was great. I really appreciate knowing that I'm not the only silly bugger in this world.

I found the music tended to be too loud over the monologue, but I forwarded the link off to a bunch of friends as it doesn't detract from the delight wit written into the scipt.

Heck, the Arrogant Worms are even used.

Hope you can tackle another one of these soon.

[vicuniclub]

Great video, very diffrent! i like it, i was laughing the whole way through (the end was the best i loved that crazy staged fall). i have always said... need more varity in videos!
cheers

[rob.northcott]

Eek... I must be more careful who I give lifts to... might turn out to be dangerous loons...

Nice one Sam! Makes a nice change from the usual pogo-stick on table stuff.

BTW - I've always thought that roundabout in the Valley of the Rocks to be probably the most pointless road feature ever. It could have its uses I suppose (bus/lorry/tractor turning place?) but still a roundabout with two exits on a dead straight road is a bit of a joke.

I've never thought about riding there, although I've been there quite a few times (mostly in the car for Triumph club meetings) - are those bits of singletrack legally rideable or are they footpaths? Is it worth a trip up there with my unicycle?

Rob

[redwelly]

Hey guys. Lots more replies

s7ev0
"so when you're an internationally renowned director"
... I think that's just happened! On some scale, anyway.

vicuniclub
"loved that crazy staged fall"
I guess you mean the one in the surf, but that was no 'staged' fall, as the bloopers show! It was simply my innability to stay up in the waves. The way the shot of the sun worked when cut together to look like a mysterious attack/beam-me-up thing was also coincidence - I didn't realise they would come out at the same point in the frame, but it seems to work.

I'd have loved to ride all the way into the water and just disappear, if only I hadn't been told only two days previously by rogeratunicycledotcom that the best way to trash bearings is to put them in the sea. So I was careful not to get the bearings wet in seawater. Maybe sometime I'll have an old unicycle to trash, and I'll use that shot in some other film.

TitaniumMonkey
"I found the music tended to be too loud over the monologue"
Yes, I know the sound-levels are hardly down to an art. Also there is too much sea/wind noise in a lot of it, but that's due to using a camcorder without a separate fluffy mic nearer to the narrator. Could always have lip-synched it back in 'post-', but seriously?

unicycle6869
"bit on the boring side with little tricks"
As I warned, it wasn't meant to be a cavalcade of trick-mongering, but it would have been better to have some more in, I know. I didn't have the time to do much really, and with a half-broken seatpost I didn't dare anything that might finish it off and prevent normal riding for the rest of the filming.
In future efforts I will certainly try to get more tricks in.


rob.northcott
Yes, that roundabout is possibly the most pointless in the world. Which is why it is a wonderful place to unicycle.

The rocky bits I rode on at the beginning of the chase were the path down from Castle Rock, next to that roundabout. An excellent path to ride, but hardly worth the trip, as it's only about 100m long. The rest was on Lee Abbey estate property, which is privately owned land. There was much more trail than I had time to visit, and what I did do was pretty mundane flat stuff. It's not the best place for public access trails, certainly.

So long for now,

Sam

[gkmac]

Originally posted by rob.northcott
I've always thought that roundabout in the Valley of the Rocks to be probably the most pointless road feature ever. It could have its uses I suppose (bus/lorry/tractor turning place?) but still a roundabout with two exits on a dead straight road is a bit of a joke.

There are quite a few suburban roads near me that have those kind of roundabouts. Not as big as the one in the video, but a rather high grass mound surrounded by a kerb, with "keep left" signs at each end and a street light stuck in the middle.

Me & my parents used to live in a house near Worcester Park (Surrey) and there was one of those roundabouts right outside our driveway. It was a favourite with delivery vans; if they just had to deliver to one house in the road they could easily use the roundabout to turn back on themselves and leave the road the way they came, as opposed to going to the end of the road and trying to get their bearings again on the map.

So in that context it is a useful feature, but I agree with rob.northcott in that it doesn't seem to have a useful purpose in the middle of a country road like that one.

[GILD]

Is this video still downloadable anywhere?

I get a 'no username' error when I try n download it.
And that while I am logged in.

Help?

[henque19]

That happens to me too. Anyone know what the problem is?