Bears on Wheels

Unicycles and Equipment
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After reading to DD this evening, DW spotted my Coker sitting in the
hall ready for tomorrow morning’s commute and felt compelled to do this:

This was swiftly followed by 2 bears on 1 wheel:

and 3 bears on 1 wheel:

Thankfully by this point there were no more bears downstairs, obtaining
more would have meant raiding the nursery and possibly waking Jenny up,
and it just wouldn’t have been the same with Teletubbies.

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Danny Colyer (remove safety to reply) ( http://www.juggler.net/danny )
Recumbent cycle page: http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/recumbents/
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” - Thomas Paine

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If you’ve read the book, you know what happens when you put too many bears on too many wheels…

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That’s why he’s putting them all on one wheel. Obviously someone’s thinking.

Daniel

PS I have no idea what book you are talking about.

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Re: Bears on Wheels

daino149 wrote:
> PS I have no idea what book you are talking about.

“Bears on Wheels” by Stan & Jan Berenstain.

I first read about it here, ordered it from Amazon, enjoyed it, then
ordered another copy for Jenny because it’s perfect for munchkins and I
didn’t want a baby/toddler getting her mitts on my cycling library copy.

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Danny Colyer (remove safety to reply) ( http://www.juggler.net/danny )
Recumbent cycle page: http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/recumbents/
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” - Thomas Paine

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Someone gave my daughter a copy of that book a few years ago. Since Bears on Wheels is out of print, I’ve searched used book stores to find several more copies.

Very cool little book for kids, and to use as the Official Unicyclists’ Autograph book.

Famous riders have signed my copy. And so has Greg Harper.

Carol
Minnesota

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Re: Re: Bears on Wheels

We have the very same in our library but ours is the American version…you know, the one written with the American accent.

B

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One of my wife’s relatives gave us this book after we moved here, I don’t even think they knew we ride uni’s :smiley: By far my favorite BB book :smiley: Does anyone know if the Berenstains are unicyclists? I remember channel surfing a few years ago and catching the intro montage to the TV show with Papa Bear on a giraffe, and I saw a mention on the web of the 1983 video game that involves helping Brother Bear find things & catch things on his uni.

Plus, it looks like the unnamed hero in Bears on Wheels has good form throughout :wink:

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The photos that I started this thread with were posted on a website that hasn’t existed for a few years.

Here they are:

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Haha great photos, I was recently re-introduced to Bears On Wheels because my sister bought a set of three Berenstein Bears books as a present for my baby, we had it when we were kids but I forgotten it existed. Now it is pride of place on the baby books shelf in the lounge:)

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Our 3 yr old son likes that book. he " reads" it to us, maybe we have read it to him A LOT, as he’s pretty accurate.

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Our 18-month old loves it… Then again, he loves it when we uni in front of him… He’ll get upset sometimes if he tries to pick it up, and we don’t immediately start riding it :wink: