I’ve said this before, but we had another fantastic fullmoon unicycle ride
last night and I recommend this HIGHLY! 5 of us rode for about 3 1/2 hours,
starting at 9:30pm up about 2200’ to the top of a hill with a great view. It
was mostly fireroad, but there were a few little challenging sections. 3 of
us had lights, so we could light the way for others on the technical parts.
What a blast! It’s funny that it was so warm last night (T-shirt/shorts),
but just 1 month ago, we did the same full moon ride on mountain bikes,
carving fast turns on the descent through 8-10" of fresh powder which is
very unusual here.
Next full moon, go out and try it - if you’ve never done it, you’ll be
amazed by the magical light. Especially if you’re lucky enough to have clear
skies, clouds below you and snow all around you reflecting the moon light.
We could’ve worn sunglasses!
Make sure you wear safety equipment though - those surprising crashes happen
much more often in the dark.
The recent full moon was unusually bright. The moon was near perigee
(i.e. closer to Earth than usual), and also very full (the maximum
“fullness” of the moon varies per lunar cycle). In addition, the
earth-moon system is closer to the sun in this season. And to top all
that off, we had very clear skies in the Netherlands that night. What
a shame I didn’t think of unicycling in this light!
On 01 Mar 2002 20:04:15 GMT, “Nathan Hoover” <nathan@movaris.com>
wrote:
>I’ve said this before, but we had another fantastic fullmoon unicycle ride
>last night and I recommend this HIGHLY! 5 of us rode for about 3 1/2 hours,
>starting at 9:30pm up about 2200’ to the top of a hill with a great view. It
>was mostly fireroad, but there were a few little challenging sections. 3 of
>us had lights, so we could light the way for others on the technical parts.
>What a blast! It’s funny that it was so warm last night (T-shirt/shorts),
>but just 1 month ago, we did the same full moon ride on mountain bikes,
>carving fast turns on the descent through 8-10" of fresh powder which is
>very unusual here.
>
>Next full moon, go out and try it - if you’ve never done it, you’ll be
>amazed by the magical light. Especially if you’re lucky enough to have clear
>skies, clouds below you and snow all around you reflecting the moon light.
>We could’ve worn sunglasses!
>
>Make sure you wear safety equipment though - those surprising crashes happen
>much more often in the dark.
>
>—Nathan
>
>
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My college unicycling buddies and i used to do something similar on our full moon unicycle rides however ours were not on the trail (which soulds like a great time also). We would go bar hopping and ride from bar to bar on the uni’s. Evryone got a kick out of it and of corse everyone wants to try it Something about a little bit of alchohol and then everyone can ride a uni The best part was if your pulled over by the cops for meandering down the road on the uni you have the perfect reason, just tell them your learning to ride and thats why your so wobbily they would have to let you go!
I don’t recommend that anyone try riding their uni on a public street while intixicated. IANAL, but in the US you can get a DWI/DUII while riding a bicycle and I would assume that a unicycle would fall in the same category. While operating a bicycle/unicycle on a public street you are a vehicle and subject to all the laws that go along with operating a vehicle.
But you don’t have to worry about the DWI/DUII thing if you are riding on private property. Riding a uni while intixicated is an interesting experience.
I must concur. Another great art that is surprisingly fun (and surprisingly unaffected by alcohol) is contact juggling. If you can do it sober, you’d be supprised how well you would be able to do it while inebriated.
-David Kaplan
john_childs wrote:
> I don’t recommend that anyone try riding their uni on a public street
> while intixicated.
I’ve had a couple of encounters with the police while unicycling under the
influence.
On the first occasion, I was riding home from the pub when I noticed a
police car crawling alongside me. I looked round, and the driver called out
of the window “Don’t worry, there’s no problem, we’re just admiring”.
On the second occasion, again on the way home from the pub, I rode past a
WPC who commented “I bet you couldn’t do that after a few pints”. How wrong
she was.
I’ve seen the effects of alcohol on unicycling ability vary greatly with the
person. For instance who can forget Bruce’s kick-up mount after 20 beers at
the UniconX beer workshop? But at the same location I saw an excellent
freestyle unicyclist fail to do any mount at all after not as many.
As far as mixing mountain unicycling and alcohol…it’s best done
sequentially, not simultaneously.
—Nathan
“UniDak” <UniDak.126bd@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:UniDak.126bd@timelimit.unicyclist.com…
>
> I must concur. Another great art that is surprisingly fun (and
> surprisingly unaffected by alcohol) is contact juggling. If you can do
> it sober, you’d be supprised how well you would be able to do it while
> inebriated.
> -David Kaplan
during the original phase of learning i spent many hours not being able to mount the uni at all
(i hardly think i’m alone in this)
despite the thrill of being in the process of aquiring a new skill, repeated ‘failure’ does tend to become a bit boring
i figured a couple of beers might make this problem go away
it did!
“Nathan Hoover” <nathan@movaris.com> wrote in message news:a63cqo$b9a@dispatch.concentric.net…
> I’ve seen the effects of alcohol on unicycling ability vary greatly with
the
> person. For instance who can forget Bruce’s kick-up mount after 20 beers
at
> the UniconX beer workshop? But at the same location I saw an excellent
> freestyle unicyclist fail to do any mount at all after not as many.
I was like woooah 20 beers, but then I realised these will be American beers
in little bottles and not like drinking 20 pints of British beer where
pretty much anyone would have fallen over?
I’ve demonstrated an ability to mount and ride after half a bottle of vodka
at a party. I also demonstrate an inability to juggle three balls reliably
quite often when drunk, so I’ve obviously got the unicycling down better
than the juggling. Although I’ve also demonstrated an inability to walk
after drinking the same as certain other unicyclists so I’m sure there are
some much more hardcore uni-drinkers out there.
> As far as mixing mountain unicycling and alcohol…it’s best done
> sequentially, not simultaneously.
Maybe, but how do you get back from the pub then?
> “Nathan Hoover” <nathan@movaris.com> wrote in message
> news:a63cqo$b9a@dispatch.concentric.net…
>> person. For instance who can forget Bruce’s kick-up mount after 20 beers
> at
>> the UniconX beer workshop? But at the same location I saw an excellent
> I was like woooah 20 beers, but then I realised these will be American beers
> in little bottles and not like drinking 20 pints of British beer where
> pretty much anyone would have fallen over?
Chinesse beer actully, and sevred in plasic cups not pint glasses, so
Bruces 20 is best looked in realation to most peoples 10 or so before they
dropped ( litterally in some cases) out of the game. Not bad beer IIRC,
the Muniers did rather better than the free stulers in the game , this
might be because they were more solid at their nominated “best trick”, or
might be that Bruce and Nathan have a large capasity for beer. I’ve seen
the photos and we loked pretty pissed at that party. We shall have to
arrange a similary debuched evening at unicon 11 somehow.
sarah
British Unicycle Convention #9 April 19-21 2002
Unicycle Hockey, Games, Muni rides, Quidditch and Barn dance
Harry Cheshire High School, Habberley rd, Kidderminster http://www.unicycle.org.uk/buc9/
>
>during the original phase of learning i spent many hours not being able
>to mount the uni at all
>(i hardly think i’m alone in this)
>despite the thrill of being in the process of aquiring a new skill,
>repeated ‘failure’ does tend to become a bit boring
>i figured a couple of beers might make this problem go away
>it did!
>
>NAMASTE
>dave
>
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Something about a little bit of alchohol and then everyone can ride a uni 
The best part was if your pulled over by the cops for meandering down the road on the uni you have the perfect reason, just tell them your learning to ride and thats why your so wobbily