I shot this picture in February 2006, on West Broadway in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Please take a look and let me know if you know who it is. I’m having an exhibition soon and this picture will be on display and I’d like to invite the person:
please contact me if you have any information: editor@visualdiaries.com
Wow, what a fantastic picture. It’s not BillyTheMountain, by the way. Can you post a higher-resolution image of the face? It’s hard to make out.
I just sent an email to the founder of the New York Unicycle Club. Maybe he can assist. Stay tuned…
Yes, David Stone can spread the image around and see if anyone can identify that guy. Looks like a 29" wheel.
Cool, thanks everybody. You’ve been very helpful. I have a higher resolution posted on my flickr account, here is the direct link to that.
And an extreme detail of the unicycler’s face can be seen here:
Does he have a drink in the other hand? And earphones on?
I’m pretty sure it’s a guy named Andrew. Early Unatics will remember him as the dude who rode his Cker insanely fast and at sharp angles that no one else dared. He got his helicopter license and never came back. He’s still on the email list.
Based on the brake, the handle, and the rider’s shoes, I know it’s not me and am pretty sure it’s not my brother.
Andrew Drossman’s old email was flightrisk at excite dot com.
I don’t have his current info. I hope I at least have the right guy.
He also reminds me of a guy whose last name was Estes, who came to the first MUni Weekend (1996). Ken Estes? Not sure of his first name, but he lived in Manhattan and looked like that as well. But that was a long time ago, and the guy in this picture is pretty hardcore. I’d start with Andrew first. Especially I don’t have any contact info for Ken…
Anyone want to try this one?
and no one compliments leicary on his/her picture? i think its really cool. Really cool feel to the picture, pleasent feeling.
great job 
My bad, excellent picture!
As for that other guy, snapping pictures of a unicyclist along his commute, posting it online and acting as if the guy is offending him, may he be graced with a spike strip next time he sees the guy.
yeah, I think he may be overly jealous and frustrated by unicyclists ability to ride the mighty one wheel. Either that or he has a phobia of clowns and assumes all unicyclists are clowns too!
Unibikeling – I said, “Wow, what a fantastic picture.” I’m sure everyone else was thinking the same thing.
John, are you sure that’s a 29er? Because I don’t think Andrew would be caught dead on a 29er. He was a hardcore Coker ride. Hence his name on the forums – HardcoreCokerRider. Could it be a Coker and not a 29er?
Here’s a picture of Andrew from a few years ago (maybe 2004 or 2005).
To the photographer: a Coker is a unicycle with a huge 36 inch wheel. John said it might be a 29 inch and if he’s right, it’s probably not Andrew. But Andrew is a super-nice guy and you should definitely contact him anyway. He lived in that general area and rode his unicycle everywhere. If it’s not him in the picture he might know who it is…
That is kinda what I thought when it showed up in my blog tags. But I wanted to find out who it was before I appropriately addressed the blogger, in case it turned out to be Billy in the pictures.
Could be a Coker, but comparing the two pictures, the proportions of the wheel to Andy’s size don’t seem to match. I know Andy’s a hardcore Coker riding, but the picture is of a day of hardcore snow, so maybe that won out? Either way, Andy should be able to tell if it’s him or not.
Long before Cokers he was a hardcore Sumo rider! Also he tried to teach me to hang glide once, but he wasn’t very good at it himself yet. Fortunately no one was hurt…
This Snorkering thread fits the time frame.
I think that was snokering, not snorkering.
From one anal retentive asshole to another, duly noted.
LOL! Snow + Coker riding = Snokering. Some people accidentally call the Coker a Corker, which, with the addition of snow, would yield Snorking. (edit: Snorkering – that’s a really hard word to get right)
The librarian would never say Corker, so it must be a typo. And leave it to him to be the ONLY ONE to think of searching for snow-related threads in the target timeframe. Seems so obvious when you think about it.
There’s a reason my house doesn’t flood when the opportunity to get together with you comes up, Dave.
This is not the first time I don’t understand what you are trying to say to me. Is it good or bad? I was being complimentary, in case you read it differently.
