# Ride the Lobster 2008 **URL:** https://unicyclist.com/c/events/rtl/45.md [Latest](https://unicyclist.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://unicyclist.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://unicyclist.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Ride the Lobster 2008 category](https://unicyclist.com/t/about-the-ride-the-lobster-2008-category/283822)
**Author:** [@Eric\_aus\_Chemnitz](https://unicyclist.com/u/Eric_aus_Chemnitz)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/about-the-ride-the-lobster-2008-category/283822 "2024-07-04T18:28:00Z")
Since we have a whole lot of topics on the 2008 Race “Ride the Lobster” (RTL), we shall try to gather them all here in one Place. --- ## [RTL: where are the riders today? KEN LOOI](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-where-are-the-riders-today-ken-looi/284059)
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Team NZUni’s Ken Looi was recently interviewed in his home city of Wellington, New Zealand about attending Unicon 21. The biennial unicycle event in on now in Bemidji, Minnesota. https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350… --- ## [RTL: David Cox, TEAM MANLY LEGS, on how he started riding unis](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-david-cox-team-manly-legs-on-how-he-started-riding-unis/284011)
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Above, Unicycle Dave encounters a giant lobster on his Vancouver, BC to St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador uni ride across Canada a few years back. "I grew up in St. John’s, NL, and was walking around with some fri… --- ## [RTL: qualifying ride SINGAPORE](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-qualifying-ride-singapore/283925)
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 Ride the Lobster qualifying ride report Route The route that I am taking is based on the Eastern Park Connector in Singapore. The length of the whole route is estimated to be about 42km. This… --- ## [RTL: Top 7 & bottom 17 finishing times](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-top-7-bottom-17-finishing-times/283916)
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--- ## [RTL: Ken Looi's post-race report](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-ken-loois-post-race-report/283913)
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" Final Team NZUNI report for RTL! Sorry it’s a couple of days late but we’ve been pretty busy partying after the race ! Day 5 We started the day about 10min down on the German team, so it would have taken either … --- ## [RTL: a Masticating Bunny clears up the race's weird name](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-a-masticating-bunny-clears-up-the-races-weird-name/283890)
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Rider Jiah Hui, from Singapore, settles to their satisfaction, the “Ride the Lobster” name mystery. " Why Ride the Lobster is called as such. Nova Scotia, the place I’ll be riding is supposed to be shaped like a lobste… --- ## [RTL: A Masticating Bunny from Hell remembers](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-a-masticating-bunny-from-hell-remembers/283873)
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Singapore’s RTL team was the Masticating Bunnies from Hell. Rider Jiah Hui wrote in her \[blog\]: " Wednesday, July 09, 2008 RTL was tough. Real tough. Could we have been better prepared for it? It’s kind of subjecti… --- ## [RTL: top 25 Teams FINAL June 20, 2008](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-top-25-teams-final-june-20-2008/283837)
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--- ## [RTL: David Stone "...fastest I've ever driven a unicycle"](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-david-stone-fastest-ive-ever-driven-a-unicycle/283764)
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photo: schlumpf.ch The Centurions, three riders with an average age of 46, finished 10th over-all at Ride the Lobster. John Foss and Dave White were David Stone’s team mates. In his blog, Stone writes: "FAVORITE Momen… --- ## [RTL: top nineteen finisher's times](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-top-nineteen-finishers-times/283803)
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--- ## [RTL: David Stone, Team Centurions on training, and Kelly's Mountain](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-david-stone-team-centurions-on-training-and-kellys-mountain/283774)
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from Stone’s RTL blog "I made time to ride at least 13 miles a day or to attack a very tall mountain road. There is nothing special about 13 miles – that’s just how far it was round-trip to the end of my rail trail a… --- ## [RTL: Qualifying ride JIM SOWERS, Team Yam!Power,part 2](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-qualifying-ride-jim-sowers-team-yam-power-part-2/283732)
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In part 1 of his qualifying ride saga, Sowers decides he needs to start all over, about one month after his first attempt. Yes, night, the Golden Gate Bridge lights in the background, and a funny and very human sto… --- ## [RTL: Qualifying attempt story JIM SOWERS, Team Yam! Power, part 1](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-qualifying-attempt-story-jim-sowers-team-yam-power-part-1/283720)
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That’s Jim Sowers on the far right with team mates (l-r) Heather Noone, support, Rachel Kalmar, and Ashley Foster, at the end of RTL, June 19, 2008. Photo: tholub In his blog, Jim wrote: " By late summer (2007), the… --- ## [RTL: Dave Krack and the Surly Speed Goats](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-dave-krack-and-the-surly-speed-goats/283699)
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After 31 laps around the sun I’d accumulated a collection of scars from crashing nearly everything I could find with a set of pedals and two wheels. My health coverage was good, so I decided that I needed to answer “A… --- ## [RTL: German/Austrian demo team, Day 2](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-german-austrian-demo-team-day-2/283645)
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Relaxing after a hard day’s demonstration Chester, Nova Scotia, welcomed the demonstration riders at the end of 185 kilometer Day 2. On the Atlantic coast, the Town’s biggest sport is sailing, except for Jun… --- ## [RTL: Team Unicycle.com](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-team-unicycle-com/283617)
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(l-r) Joshua Torrens (GA), Scott Arnold, (OR), Dustin Kelm, (MN). Team Unicycle showed speed in the Time Trials, with Kelm finishing 27th and Torrens, 30th in a field of 105 riders. Torrens. image: Dawn DiCecco … --- ## [RTL: Team AMERICAN MOJO](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-team-american-mojo/283616)
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(l-r)Eric Sheer, Bill Merrylees, Dawn DiCecco (support), Mark Premo. Picture credit: Dawn DiCecco. Bill Merrylees: “I began riding a unicycle as a teen in the early 1970’s, one of a large group of young riders that s… --- ## [RTL: The Wobble gathers, June 16, 2008](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-the-wobble-gathers-june-16-2008/283612)
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Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the south-western tip of the province. Kris Holm at the starting line. And they’re off. Photo credits: Dawn DiCecco, support Team American Mojo --- ## [RTL: Team Hans Islanders Signe Gjerding-Jensen](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-team-hans-islanders-signe-gjerding-jensen/283562)
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Photo: schlumpf.ch Signe and Thomas Olsen, Denmark, (both above), and Todd Sankey, Vancouver, were the Hans Islanders. In 2008’s RTL, they finished 8th in a field of 35, 3 hours 26 minutes and 12 seconds behind the fi… --- ## [RTL: Thirty five teams did not take Matt Groening's advice](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-thirty-five-teams-did-not-take-matt-groenings-advice/283516)
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--- ## [RTL: Day 3 Time Trials, fastest six riders](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-day-3-time-trials-fastest-six-riders/283489)
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Chuck Edwall, RTL Team Smile, CA. “I started unicycling on my first little 24” Torker DX… I got my first Coker in October of 2007, and have been loving it! Going fast on a unicycle is the greatest feeling in the world!" … --- ## [RTL: snapshots from the race](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-snapshots-from-the-race/283337)
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The endless rolling hills of Nova Scotia’s Ride the Lobster marathon. Texacali riders, Corbin Dunn and Kevin Chang exchange the GPS baton, AJ Greig looks on Texacali finished 3rd, 0:59:11 behind the first place fi… --- ## [RTL: Kevin Chang, Team Texacali, how I started unicycling](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-kevin-chang-team-texacali-how-i-started-unicycling/283468)
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Kris Holm and RTL Special Events Manager, Heather LeBlanc. Photo: schlumpf.ch “I’ve been riding for 3 years now, and I never thought I would find anything to replace my bicycling habit. After spending most of my twen… --- ## [RTL: where are the riders now: Lutz Eicholz](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-where-are-the-riders-now-lutz-eicholz/283327)
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Riding since he was 10, Lutz was on the German/Austrian demonstration team, entertaining crowds along the 2008 Marathon route. Eicholz with Team German Speeders at the finish line, Day One, at Parks Canada’s Fort Ann… --- ## [RTL: How I started unicycling. Steve Relles, Team Personal Rollercoaster](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-how-i-started-unicycling-steve-relles-team-personal-rollercoaster/283391)
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“I left college in 1984 with a degree in math and a lifetime passion for Ultimate, a fast team sport using a flying disc. I programmed computers and sprinkled in some ski-bumming, and, in 1990, I met an Ultimate player n… --- ## [RTL: How Unicycle Max triggered creation of world's longest uni marathon](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-how-unicycle-max-triggered-creation-of-worlds-longest-uni-marathon/283357)
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Edward Wedler met Max DeMilner by chance. Max was in the midst of a solo 720 mile, 6 week fundraising effort in New England. Wedler, engineer, bookstore owner, en plein air painter, was brainstorming event ideas to dr… --- ## [RTL: Team Centurion support essentials. Jacquie Foss](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-team-centurion-support-essentials-jacquie-foss/283372)
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David Stone image: schlumpf.ch “When I met my husband John I never realized how sexy the world of unicycling was. And as John told me on our first date, unicycling is a chick … --- ## [Ride the Lobster: How I started unicycling. Beau Hoover](https://unicyclist.com/t/ride-the-lobster-how-i-started-unicycling-beau-hoover/283287)
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I learned to ride a unicycle the day before my 7th birthday and have been riding the past 9 years with a passion. There’s no better feeling than bombing down a steep intensely technical section or cranking with all yo… --- ## [RTL riders @UNICON 14, Copenhagen](https://unicyclist.com/t/rtl-riders-unicon-14-copenhagen/283225)
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Ride the Lobster ended in June, 2008. Unicon 14, in Denmark, began a few weeks later. Marathon (26.4 miles) results featured competitive RTL riders. The under-17 race had Beau Hoover 2nd, and Scott Wilton 3rd. Four of… [Next page](https://unicyclist.com/c/events/rtl/45.md?page=1)