For several obvious reasons, the uni.5 SH 29er (formerly named unijess by default, as are ALL of my unnamed unicycles) will be renamed Blue Shift.
I fell off of Blue Shift today. This was not a UPD. It went bouncing down the tarmack behind me. My left foot went down; my right foot didn’t have a chance. I was going well beyond the run-out speed. The old tuck-and-roll gave me a light scape on the right knee, a touch on the right hip, over to the right shoulder and back (thank you Mr. Hyration Pack), and onto the helmet for the roll.
Did I have enough sense to slow down after that? For about 30 seconds maybe. What’s the fun in slowing down? I just didn’t fall any more.
The seat creaking is gone. Lubing the rocking surfaces of the rail clamp does the trick for those of you who are outfitted with one.
Red Shift refers to the shifting of the light spectrum from something emitting light and moving quickly AWAY from you. Similarly, Blue Shift refers to something moving quickly TOWARD you. Also something BLUE that you can SHIFT, ha, ha, ha, ha. Sorry. So I take it you’re fast on a long cranked 16" then?
I was just at the bottom of a fairly steep hill and I thought I was in control somewhere between 15 to 20 mph. I can hear the ever-quotable Jerry Gruss saying, “you’re gonna pick up some speed.” It was a bump at the bottom of the hill that I didn’t see that launched me.
Yes I know - I was simply ignoreing my Physics for the sake of a feeble pun.
The Doppler effect is not the best subject for a pun - perhaps I should have simply said red.
> Blue Shift refers to something moving quickly TOWARD you. Also
> something BLUE that you can SHIFT, ha, ha, ha, ha. Sorry.
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> harper - Blue Shift Pilot
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I was thinking it could equally describe the rider’s experience
as his forward view blue-shifts at those relativistic speeds.
See from an observer’s view it would inevitably red-shift as
the high-speed craft zooms ahead of the chasing observer.
Perhaps blue-shift refers to the colour of the bruises one
acquires while doing UPD’s at 45kmh.
I am just jealous. Like the rest of us mere mortals, I’d
sell my soul for a Harper-Hub.
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Ottawa, ON FreeBSD: Where you want to go. Today.
No pun intended. However, that thing could be vicious at high speed; absolutely beautiful at any speed.
I just hope the high speed crashes don’t continue. You, Bruce, and myself have been very lucky. We’re too *ld to be bouncing down the pavement.
This is great! You guys keep coming up with more and more reasons. I thought I had covered it already. Yeah, you should have heard my vocabulary shift to blue as I was goin’ down. Or seen my mood as I apprehensively walked back to assess the damage to my new unicycle.
How about the shift from look forward to looking at the blue sky when you fall on your back, or the shift to seeing water all around when you’re going too fast and can’t stop and you fall into a lake.
