Post your Vintage Uni Pics & Videos - Page 2

Shug · 2011-04-25, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MuniAddict

http://www.searspartsdirect.com/part...sid=PDVertical

I think this was from an old Sears catalog. I had one very similar to this, if not the same. I had one very similar to this, if not the same. 20 spokes, flat top saddle and lolipop bearings, and one-piece cranks!

Attachment 47733

I had one of these too! Mine was $16 from Sears. Snapped that crank/hub in no time..........
Shug

Carey · 2011-04-25, 07:03 PM

Here is the photo I mentioned. It is a couple of years before the video posted above. This was at Christmas when I was 11...note the seat is a derailleur style seat. That is what I learned to ride with. It was several years later that I first saw a U-style seat on a unicycle. This unicycle was made by Walter Niellson.

Carey

Carey · 2011-04-25, 07:24 PM

Terry,

My Dad captured our entire lives on 8mm movies. Starting from about 1948 when he graduated from college until the mid-80s when our family had all grown up and left home. I am not sure what kind of camera he used, he had several. One I recall is a Sanyo, but he did buy nice equipment.

When he passed away, my brother had all of his movies transcribed to digital format as some of the oldest films were beginning to deteriorate. They seem to have a life of about 60 years for anybody else who has some old movies like this. I am really glad we did it. It is not cheap but you do not want to lose them.

Terry, you and I may have been in near proximity. We lived in Hawthorne at the time and that is where my Dad found Walter Nielsson and we bought that unicycle from him. It was a pretty nice uni with a pneumatic tire. The films of me riding it were taken in Colorado after we moved there a few years later. I did not know anybody else who had a unicycle. It must have been fun to have some friends who rode. I wish I still had that uni but my folks parted with it in a move after I had gone to college in the late 60s.

One of my friends was looking at one in a bike shop in the LA area when we still lived there and the owner told him "If you can ride that out of here, you can have it." He, of course took me back down there to earn his free unicycle but when I rode it out of the store, the guy retracted the offer. I believe it was the first Schwinn I had encountered.

Good to know there were a few of us in the old days...I turn 60 this year. Maybe we can cross paths some day at one of the events. Your videos show you have worked a lot on things that I have never tried...I just ride.

Carey

johnfoss · 2011-04-25, 10:49 PM

Carey, do you still have that old uni? A handmade Walter Nilsson (I think that's how he spelled it) would be quite the collectors item!

Carey · 2011-04-27, 12:53 AM

John,

No, I do not still have it, sure wish I did.

I remember going to his shop as a kid...it was a dark place with junk all over. The kind of place where you would stick close to your Dad. But, though he was old, he was a nice guy. He showed me pictures of him with a giraffe at the Pyramids and on the edge of some pretty tall buildings. It was only many years later that I learned he was the first unicyclist who rode across the country...and that was when the roads were bad.

Carey

johnfoss · 2011-04-27, 05:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Carey

It was only many years later that I learned he was the first unicyclist who rode across the country...and that was when the roads were bad.

Roads schmoads. Think of the seats they had in those days!

BTW, I've received those three "vintage" photos I described above. Now I just need to get a chance to get them scanned, sized and posted...

kamikaze · 2011-04-27, 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carey

... This was at Christmas when I was 11...note the seat is a derailleur style seat. That is what I learned to ride with. It was several years later that I first saw a U-style seat on a unicycle.

I also learned on a seat like this, even though I had already seen banana seats before.

wobbling bear · 2011-04-27, 11:45 AM

I think I already posted this one ("le roi du monocycle")

munimag · 2011-04-28, 12:55 AM

Here's one from a 1973 newspaper article. This was five years after my brother and I started riding.

Juni · 2011-04-29, 08:30 PM

Saw this on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1956-Young-Chi...item256354674e

Here's the pic too, it says from 1956.

Juni · 2011-04-29, 09:58 PM

This one on ebay too:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/60s-PHOTO-CIRC...item4cf179d737

Juni · 2011-04-29, 10:20 PM

And this one from 1947:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1947-J-E-Ellis...item230f2fec70

MuniAddict · 2011-04-29, 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Juni

And this one from 1947:

I've seen that pic and it sure looks photoshopped. I very much doubt the date on it. Also, the tire looks much to "modern" to have been on a uni from almost 65 years ago! It also looks doesn't look like a solid rubber tire, which I would have thought would have been the norm for little unis like that back then.

Juni · 2011-04-29, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MuniAddict

I've seen that pic and it sure looks photoshopped. I very much doubt the date on it. Also, the tire looks much to "modern" to have been on a uni from almost 65 years ago! It also looks doesn't look like a solid rubber tire, which I would have thought would have been the norm for little unis like that back then.

Hmmm yes i see what you're saying....Just going on what it was saying on ebay though!

MuniAddict · 2011-04-29, 11:27 PM

At least nobody could ask, "Where's...."

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2011-04-25, 07:03 PM	#17
Carey One up. Join Date: May 2005 Location: Colorado, USA Age: 62 Posts: 269	Dec 1962 picture Here is the photo I mentioned. It is a couple of years before the video posted above. This was at Christmas when I was 11...note the seat is a derailleur style seat. That is what I learned to ride with. It was several years later that I first saw a U-style seat on a unicycle. This unicycle was made by Walter Niellson. Carey

2011-04-25, 07:24 PM	#18
Carey One up. Join Date: May 2005 Location: Colorado, USA Age: 62 Posts: 269	Old video Terry, My Dad captured our entire lives on 8mm movies. Starting from about 1948 when he graduated from college until the mid-80s when our family had all grown up and left home. I am not sure what kind of camera he used, he had several. One I recall is a Sanyo, but he did buy nice equipment. When he passed away, my brother had all of his movies transcribed to digital format as some of the oldest films were beginning to deteriorate. They seem to have a life of about 60 years for anybody else who has some old movies like this. I am really glad we did it. It is not cheap but you do not want to lose them. Terry, you and I may have been in near proximity. We lived in Hawthorne at the time and that is where my Dad found Walter Nielsson and we bought that unicycle from him. It was a pretty nice uni with a pneumatic tire. The films of me riding it were taken in Colorado after we moved there a few years later. I did not know anybody else who had a unicycle. It must have been fun to have some friends who rode. I wish I still had that uni but my folks parted with it in a move after I had gone to college in the late 60s. One of my friends was looking at one in a bike shop in the LA area when we still lived there and the owner told him "If you can ride that out of here, you can have it." He, of course took me back down there to earn his free unicycle but when I rode it out of the store, the guy retracted the offer. I believe it was the first Schwinn I had encountered. Good to know there were a few of us in the old days...I turn 60 this year. Maybe we can cross paths some day at one of the events. Your videos show you have worked a lot on things that I have never tried...I just ride. Carey

2011-04-25, 10:49 PM	#19
johnfoss North Shore ridin' Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Carmichael, CA Posts: 14,927	Carey, do you still have that old uni? A handmade Walter Nilsson (I think that's how he spelled it) would be quite the collectors item! __________________ John Foss "jfoss" at "unicycling.com" www.unicycling.com "Unicycling is a way of looking at the world, making a choice to slow down, finish what you start, doing things not because they're easy, but because they're a challenge." -- Nurse Ben

2011-04-27, 11:45 AM	#23
wobbling bear GranPa goes-a-wobblin' Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: European Union (S-W) Age: 64 Posts: 2,109	I think I already posted this one ("le roi du monocycle") Attached Images __________________ One Wheel : bear necessity

2011-04-28, 12:55 AM	#24
munimag Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Germantown, MD Posts: 312	Here's one from a 1973 newspaper article. This was five years after my brother and I started riding. Attached Images

2011-04-27, 12:53 AM	#20
Carey One up. Join Date: May 2005 Location: Colorado, USA Age: 62 Posts: 269	John, No, I do not still have it, sure wish I did. I remember going to his shop as a kid...it was a dark place with junk all over. The kind of place where you would stick close to your Dad. But, though he was old, he was a nice guy. He showed me pictures of him with a giraffe at the Pyramids and on the edge of some pretty tall buildings. It was only many years later that I learned he was the first unicyclist who rode across the country...and that was when the roads were bad. Carey

2011-04-29, 08:30 PM	#25
Juni Someone's nicked your other wheel! Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Grimsby Age: 28 Posts: 1,313	Saw this on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1956-Young-Chi...item256354674e Here's the pic too, it says from 1956. Attached Images __________________ Quote Uni57: Unicyclists are the nicest people! Both on and off the Internet.

2011-04-29, 09:58 PM	#26
Juni Someone's nicked your other wheel! Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Grimsby Age: 28 Posts: 1,313	This one on ebay too: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/60s-PHOTO-CIRC...item4cf179d737 Attached Images __________________ Quote Uni57: Unicyclists are the nicest people! Both on and off the Internet.

2011-04-29, 10:20 PM	#27
Juni Someone's nicked your other wheel! Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Grimsby Age: 28 Posts: 1,313	And this one from 1947: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1947-J-E-Ellis...item230f2fec70 Attached Images __________________ Quote Uni57: Unicyclists are the nicest people! Both on and off the Internet.

2011-04-29, 11:27 PM	#30
MuniAddict Not "2" Tired Join Date: Aug 2006 Age: 57 Posts: 13,541	At least nobody could ask, "Where's...." __________________ My latest TV segment UniGeezer.com My videos Last edited by MuniAddict; 2011-04-29 at 11:27 PM.

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