could anyone tell me how much beer you can drink before you can’t unicycle anymore?
how many people have falllen asleep on thier unicycles and woken up still riding or fallen?
How much stress can a unicycle hub take if i am 150lbs and have a torker for a uni? (24in if it helps)
spokelerlarueRe: beer on unicycles
These are important questions which demand serious answers.
1.) An average person, on an empty stomach, can easily consume a cubic foot (or about 8 gallons) of beer before they are unable to ride a unicycle. I recommend that you test this limit as soon as possible but it is UNFAIR to ride BEFORE consuming the cubic foot of beer.
2.) Only one person has fallen asleep while riding a unicycle. That was Bernard Vlaspeid of Beaver Ranch Vista, Nevada. He was attempting to set a world distance record riding up and down a rails-to-trails path in Kalamazoo, Michigan and fell asleep at 9:37 PM EDT July 17th, 1987. He is still asleep at the wheel and continues to ride to this day.
3.) A 24" Torker unicycle bearing a 148-152 pound rider may be dropped from a helicopter from a height of 1846 feet. Most 24" Torkers can only do this once.
Re: beer on unicycles
>2.) Only one person has fallen asleep while riding a unicycle.
>That was Bernard Vlaspeid of Beaver Ranch Vista, Nevada. He
>was attempting to set a world distance record riding up and
>down a rails-to-trails path in Kalamazoo, Michigan and fell
>asleep at 9:37 PM EDT July 17th, 1987. He is still asleep at the
>wheel and continues to ride to this day.
Greg, surely you know that now that you have put this on the Internet it automatically takes on the quality of TRUTH. (context or no)
If only I could claim he had been riding a Coker, I’d put it in the article. Darn, if only you’d said 1997, then it could have been a prototype. 
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Re: beer on unicycles
spokelerlarue.5hxpa@timelimit.unicyclist.com writes:
>
>could anyone tell me how much beer you can drink before you can’t
>unicycle anymore?
>
>how many people have falllen asleep on thier unicycles and woken up
>still riding or fallen?
>
>How much stress can a unicycle hub take if i am 150lbs and have a torker
>for a uni? (24in if it helps)
>
>spokelerlarue
Interesting question.
I first played quarters when I was about 15 or 16. That was the first time
I ever drank beer more than a sip, and I had never been drunk before.
Knowing this, of course my friends elbow-pointed at me every chance they
got. We had 5 liters of beer at my friend’s house, and I am confident that
I drank about 3 of them (about 100 oz, or just short of a gallon). I
weighed about 150lbs., if that’s important. Anyhow, at 2 am, I decided it
was time to ride home. I lived 9 blocks away (a bit under a half mile).
The ride was fine, and of course my mom was up when I got home. I bade her
good night, washed my face, got ready for bed, and had a good night’s
sleep. I was totally fine the next day. That’s typical for me on booze. No
tolerance, little effect, and no hangover. Pretty boring, so I never drink
anymore.
David
Co-founder, Unatics of NY
1st Sunday / 3rd Saturday
@ Central Park Bandshell
1:30 start time after 11/1/01
spokelerlarue,
If Roman soldiers hold you while forcing you to drink beer (you would be strapped to the unicycle and held up), they might stab you with short blades so that the beer (or wine) all runs out and there would be room for more. I don’t drink, however, so that can’t happen to me.
Wait, that makes no sense. Hmm. It made more sense in the movie.
Lewis
Most of it depends on your tolerance for alcohol. I myself can drink a 12 pack of Bud Light and can still ride forward, backwards, one-footed, idle, one footed idle, hop up flights of stairs etc. After that I start to lose what skills I can do.
Re: beer on unicycles
Greg, I personally once tried to drink 8 gallons of water, but after only
1.5 gallons, involuntary vomiting occured. There is no way in hell any
normal sized person can keep down 8 gallons at the same time, especially if
unicycling is involved, and double-especially if it’s beer instead of water.
Extra fact: 8 gallons of beer weighs about the same as 8 gallons of water:
64 pounds!
For #2, ask Dan Heaton about the UAM ride. Zzzzz.
On #3, my calculations match yours exactly. Good job.
—Nathan
“harper” <harper.5i5cb@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
news:harper.5i5cb@timelimit.unicyclist.com…
>
> spokelerlarue wrote:
> > could anyone tell me how much beer you can drink before you can’t
> > unicycle anymore?
> >
> > how many people have falllen asleep on thier unicycles and woken up
> > still riding or fallen?
> >
> > How much stress can a unicycle hub take if i am 150lbs and have a
> > torker for a uni? (24in if it helps)
> >
>
> These are important questions which demand serious answers.
>
> 1.) An average person, on an empty stomach, can easily consume a cubic
> foot (or about 8 gallons) of beer before they are unable to ride a
> unicycle. I recommend that you test this limit as soon as possible but
> it is UNFAIR to ride BEFORE consuming the cubic foot of beer.
>
> 2.) Only one person has fallen asleep while riding a unicycle. That was
> Bernard Vlaspeid of Beaver Ranch Vista, Nevada. He was attempting to set
> a world distance record riding up and down a rails-to-trails path in
> Kalamazoo, Michigan and fell asleep at 9:37 PM EDT July 17th, 1987. He
> is still asleep at the wheel and continues to ride to this day.
>
> 3.) A 24" Torker unicycle bearing a 148-152 pound rider may be dropped
> from a helicopter from a height of 1846 feet. Most 24" Torkers can only
> do this once.
>
>
> –
> harper - Gearhead
>
> -Greg Harper
Re: Re: beer on unicycles
Wimp. Water’s easy. I once was stuck in a tank of gasoline. Gasoline, being less dense than water, won’t easily support swimming. Rather than drown, I drank all 70,000 gallons.
Well, not quite. I only drank enough so I could touch bottom and keep my head up.
I thought you were tough, Nathan.
Re: Re: Re: beer on unicycles
Harper,
Something isn’t right here. Are you pulling my leg?
I would have believed this had you provided some volume calculations to back you up, but your story seems a little ‘hard to swallow’ without the detail we have become accustomed to from your posts.
In fact, are you really Harper?
Lewis
(come on 5 o’clock)
Re: beer on unicycles
In a message dated 5/31/02 7:06:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
spokelerlarue.5hxpa@timelimit.unicyclist.com writes:
> could anyone tell me how much beer you can drink before you can’t
> unicycle anymore?
>
Sorry I don’t drink and ride, I don’t even drink so I don’t have to pass my
uni. 
David Ramos
uniciclo@aol.com
Re: beer on unicycles
AccordNSX wrote:
> I myself can drink a 12 pack of Bud Light …
But spokelerlarue asked about beer 
Reminds me of the story about the brewery presidents drinking together after
a beer festival.
The guy from Corona sits down and says, “Hey Senor, I would like the world’s
best beer, a Corona.”
The bartender dusts off a bottle from the shelf and gives it to him.
The guy from Budweiser says, “I’d like the best beer in the world, give me
‘The
King Of Beers’, a Budweiser.”
The bartender gives him one.
The guy from Coors says, “I’d like the only beer made with Rocky Mountain
spring water, give me a Coors.”
He gets it.
The guy from Guinness sits down and says, “Give me a Coke.”
The bartender is a little taken aback, but gives him what he ordered.
The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask, “Why aren’t you
drinking a Guinness?”
The Guinness president replies, "Well, I figured if you guys aren’t drinking
beer, neither would I.
But to forget about the jokes and go for fact, Roger Protz (the editor of
the Good Beer Guide) was once approached by the head of the Budweiser
brewery (not the original Czech one, but the American one that stole its
name), who demanded to know why Budweiser wasn’t featured! Roger told the
guy that when Budweiser brewed a quality real ale he’d consider it.
–
Danny Colyer (remove safety to reply) ( http://www.juggler.net/danny )
Recumbent cycle page: http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/recumbents/
“I don’t think proofreading is adequate. All posts should be waxed and
buffed. Then they should wear little tuxedos.” - Greg Harper on usenet
beer and unis
Gee. Beer and unicycles. What an interesting combonation. I think about 2- six packs would do it for ya.
i personally don’t drink beer, but, from experience, i can drink about half to 3 quarters of a 2 5th of rum before i can’t ride anymore. i weigh 115lbs., so it might be different for others… yeah i got my mom to buy me rum before and i mixed almost all of it (well, you know, about 3/4s, of the bottle) with pepsi in one of those double big gulps from 7-11. and then i drank some of it, rode on my unicycle with it, as soon as it was light enough to carry, had to go pee a lot, and drank the rest while riding, then i fell off and decided i better go home lol. so yeah, considering how much i drank i was still surprisingly capable of riding the unicycle, i was just hella paranoid i would get hurt or something, considering it was dark and i was drunk. that was my only experience with drinking and riding, however. sure was fun though!
Jess
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Animation <Animation.5jajn@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in
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He’s Harper after filling up his lawnmower with gasoline on a hot day in
an enclosed, well-insulated, ill-ventilated, ill-illuminated shed and
spilling some of said gasoline. Yeah.
I was siphoning gas out of a car at work years ago because the tank had
to come out, and I ended up swallowing a little bit. I was high as a kite
for hours. I smoked at the time, and was afraid to light a cigarette for
fear of blowing myself up.
John
>
> Harper,
>
> harper wrote:
>> I once was stuck in a tank of gasoline.
>
> Something isn’t right here. Are you pulling my leg?
>
> I would have believed this had you provided some volume calculations to
> back you up, but your story seems a little ‘hard to swallow’ without the
> detail we have become accustomed to from your posts.
>
> In fact, are you really Harper?
woulnt it be LxHxW im learing this in school
well to find the area of the stomach wouldnt you first have to find the length, then the width, then the hight, then times those.
but yes.i dont drink, at all, im 16 almost 17 in a month, all my friends drink, i think its a waste of time, money, and my well being for the time, id rather go MUni’n then get piss drunk, and spend 50$ on a 40, 24 pack of beer, and other hard liquer (that would be with like 5 other people puttin money in). Ha ha, and i think i know why you guys can drink so many beers before fallin off your unis. cuz american beer is suposidly so much weaker then canadian, and i think ive heard of european beer, like United Kingdom??? is even stronger, try goin to eather of these places and drinkin 12 beer, and see how far you can go, maybe just as far, maybe not? well all igota say for now.
Re: beer on unicycles
I don’t know about tough, but the 6 quarts was real - took only about 10
minutes. Try it sometime and see how it feels - very heavy and fat.
I like your comeback, but unfortunately we’ve strayed too far from
unicycling, even for a Friday afternoon. Let’s all go out and practice wheel
walking or something all weekend. With or without beer.
—Nathan
“harper” <harper.5ja31@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
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>
> Nathan Hoover wrote:
> > *Greg, I personally once tried to drink 8 gallons of water, but after
> > only
> > 1.5 gallons, involuntary vomiting occured.
> > *
>
> Wimp. Water’s easy. I once was stuck in a tank of gasoline. Gasoline,
> being less dense than water, won’t easily support swimming. Rather than
> drown, I drank all 70,000 gallons.
>
> Well, not quite. I only drank enough so I could touch bottom and keep my
> head up.
>
> I thought you were tough, Nathan.
>
>
> –
> harper - Gearhead
>
> -Greg Harper
American beer is weaker. Most Americans drink socially, and socially drunk people usually don’t exist. We drink to have something to do, not to get drunk because we live in a horrible country.
hmm
i might of taken this out of context but were you implying that Canadians drink to get drunk becuase their life in Canda sucks becuase of the county sucks?
Re: beer on unicycles
>i might of taken this out of context but were you implying that
>Canadians drink to get drunk becuase their life in Canda sucks becuase
>of the county sucks?
I think that’s what he was getting at…
I say us Canucks group together and think of a witty comeback.
How many canucks does it take to think of a witty comeback to a drunk American?