Here are some pics. from today’s practice:
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=162827&g2_page=1
Nice!
What is a group of giraffes called? Is it a heard, or do we call them a wobble as well?
I noticed that everyone has helmets, kneepads and elbowpads. Is this required for your club or the parade or both? No gloves or maybe I just missed them…
You look great.
Cathy
…Surely it would be called a neck of giraffes?
D.
Ya. They buy you all your pads:elbowpads, kneepads, helmet, wristguards.
I don’t wear them unless they force me to. Like during parades and at this practice they were filming for the news.
So ya only a few more days till the parade. I am still interested in meeting up with some unicyclist after the parade. I especially want to try The Harper/Holm/HCR uber coker. (HRC please PM me)
Around here we have been on the news a lot lately. Here are 3 or 4 separate newscast edited into one video:
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=163519
In the shot where the guy asks how you get on them I am the person in back behind Matt when we mount them . I have the orange helmet on.
P.S. you might need the DivX codex to view this video.
i think it should be called a smack
personally, i’d think it’d be easier to just call a group of UNICYCLISTS in general a wobble.
We are leaving tommrow at 5, Try to watch for us on TV it think its on NBC. 
The parade is on wednsday?
No we are leaving today and sleeping in a Hotel tonight, The Parade is Thursday.
Awesome - I will be looking for you all on Thursday
-Eric
There was an article in yesterday’s Portland Press Herald. I posted it here.
Good luck and have a great time. I’ll be watching from the warmth of my living room. 
No! We Don’t get NBC!
Think it will be on MSNBC, or CNBC also?
Members of the the Gym Dandies Children’s Circus, seen practicing in Scarborough, will be riding unicycles in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this week, an event that will be watched by more than 50 million people on national television.
thatd be enough to make me nervous. good luck!
There is no coasting on one wheel.
what do they know!
I just saw them on T.V.! They didn’t show their routine, they just showed them approaching the performance area. They showed them when they were getting ready to go to a commercial, and they had “brought to you by” ads blocking part of the screen! 
The unicyclists were in rows and they were holding hands to form a chain. I did see one rider fall, and I wondered if they had a few people on foot to help fallen giraffe riders get back on. They were all on 5ft. giraffes!
Pretty cool to see!
Lucky me, I grew up across the street from the Planetarium. This means that one of the starting points of the parade is outside my mom’s apartment. It also means that as a kid, my lovely day-off from school was punctuated by tubas and xylophones (no joke) warming up outside my window at 6am. It should not be a surprise that I grew up HATING parades.
I visited my mom yesterday for a sleepover with my wife and kids so that the little ones could see the balloons being inflated last night and then see the start of the parade from a neat vantage point this morning. After driving everyone in yesterday, I Cokered to Brooklyn and back for some work. On my way back, I found myself on Columbus Ave in the 70s. Normally this is a charming nabe, but with streets cordoned off and with police everywhere, I had no way of walking, let alone uni’ing, so I hopped off and sardined along for a few blocks till I got past the balloon-watching tourists.
At this point, a man spotted the Coker and commented that his kid would be riding in the parade on a giraffe. I replied, “Oh, you guys must be from Maine,” and he was impressed that I had heard of their group. I mentioned this site and how the news had reached many unicyclists, since we’re a tight group. I also mentioned that I have a uni club and told him of our website (newyorkunicycle.com).
I had to ask: Where were all of those kids and their families staying? I couldn’t imagine that they’d find hotels, and the cost woulda been prohibitive. Sure enough, they were staying over in New Jersey!!! The poor kids had to be up at 4:30 this morning in time to sit around for hours in the cold, waiting for the parade to begin at 9am.
I missed seeing them ride down Central Park West, but I heard good things from the people I polled. And I’m really glad I got stuck in pedestrian traffic last night – it was fun connecting with that dad.
– David Stone
GAHH, I don’t get NBC…