A new unicycle in China

system · November 14, 2001, 9:50am

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I have just been attending a Tianjin International Comic Art Festival in
China. It was a great experience, so many good clowns and other artists.

I was competing with my balloon act some of you might have seen at NUC in
Seattle. I got at 2nd place.

There was a Chinese act with ultimate wheel, see them at:
<http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7074.jpg>
http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7074.jpg

They had some nice idears, and they had inveted a new type unicycle!! Take
a look at this: <http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg>
http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg and this one
<http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg>
http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg

Lars Lottrup Denmark www.unicycle.dk <http://www.unicycle.dk/>

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system · November 14, 2001, 10:06am

> I was competing with my balloon act some of you might have seen at NUC
> in Seattle. I got at 2nd place.

Congratulations! The winning act must have been quite amazing to be voted
#1!

> They had some nice idears, and they had inveted a new type unicycle!!
> Take a look at this: http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg and this
> one http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7085.jpg

(I fixed the path to the second picture) Those are fascinating unicycles,
including the “money” ultimates! How did that “hoop” one work? It looks
like a metal ring with little or no traction. Definitely very visual! If
used in a typical Chinese acrobatic show, I can see guys diving through it
as the rider passes by…

John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com www.unicycling.com

“Our time is a most precious commodity, but it’s how we spend it that
makes us rich.” - John Foss

system · November 14, 2001, 11:26am

Congratulations!

Those are cool unis. It’s like wheel walking built right in! I’ll bet they
were doing some acrobatics through those hoop-wheels, no?

Christopher

“Be Bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.” -Basil King (Anyone who
can give me more info on THIS Basil King please email
me.)

system · November 15, 2001, 12:31am

The winning act was really cool. It was a guy from France doing an ostrich
imitation, see him here: http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7037.jpg

The unicyclists had also an ultimate made of sticks, so instead of a ring
or wheel where a lot of sticks coming out. They was not using any tyre on
the unis, that’s why there is the black matt on the stage.

The big wheel thing was used to ride through. I never got a chance to see
it close up, but there must have been some kind of transfer from the
pedals to drive the ring round.

See ya Lars

> I was competing with my balloon act some of you might have seen at NUC
> in Seattle. I got at 2nd place.

Congratulations! The winning act must have been quite amazing to be voted
#1!

> They had some nice idears, and they had inveted a new type unicycle!!
> Take a look at this: http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg and this
> one http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7085.jpg

(I fixed the path to the second picture) Those are fascinating unicycles,
including the “money” ultimates! How did that “hoop” one work? It looks
like a metal ring with little or no traction. Definitely very visual! If
used in a typical Chinese acrobatic show, I can see guys diving through it
as the rider passes by…

John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com www.unicycling.com

“Our time is a most precious commodity, but it’s how we spend it that
makes us rich.” - John Foss

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system · November 15, 2001, 10:15pm

That hoop unicycle is really cool and probably difficult to ride. But it
did get me thinking… Imagine a tandem unicycle with one rider inside the
wheel (a monocycle) and the second rider on top of the monocycle with a
contraption similar to what is used on that hoop unicycle. It would be
interesting and difficult to ride for the rider on top.

john_childs

>From: “Lars Lottrup” <Lars@artist.dk>
[snip]
>
>They had some nice idears, and they had inveted a new type unicycle!!
>Take a look at this: http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg and this
>one http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7085.jpg
>
>Lars Lottrup Denmark www.unicycle.dk <http://www.unicycle.dk/>

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system · December 15, 2001, 4:05pm

Greetings

In message “A new unicycle in China”, Lars Lottrup wrote…
>I have just been attending a Tianjin International Comic Art Festival in
>China. It was a great experience, so many good clowns and other artists.

I have hear that that there is an active unicyle club in Tianjin. I am not
sure if they attended UX…

>I was competing with my balloon act some of you might have seen at NUC
>in Seattle. I got at 2nd place.
>
>There was a Chinese act with ultimate wheel, see them at:
><http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7074.jpg>
>http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7074.jpg
>
>They had some nice idears, and they had inveted a new type unicycle!!
>Take a look at this: <http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg>

This is very interesting. Has anyone ever built anything like it? The
details are not too clear to me…

Nest time I go to China (which is often) I will try to go to Tianjin and
get together with them. Lars, please give me contact info if you have it.

>http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg and this one
><http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg>
>http://www.unicykel.com/china/IMG_7084.jpg
>
>Lars Lottrup Denmark www.unicycle.dk <http://www.unicycle.dk/>

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muzzle · May 18, 2006, 5:53am

sorry to resurect this ancient thread, but i was wanting to see these photos and the site seems to be down. anyone know where i can find them?

Lottrup · September 15, 2006, 1:17pm

I have now uploaded theese pictures again. I know the request is a bit old - but the pictures are still fun.

ice_cold_uni6 · September 15, 2006, 2:47pm

wow this is an old thread

muzzle · September 16, 2006, 2:36am

ah wicked, cool!

dan_de_man · September 16, 2006, 3:45am

I can imagine some russian music to go w/ that first pic it would llook so good