From Today
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My last ride was at Saturday in Germany with some Uni Friends. We had a great time and good laughs. Nobody crashed or a Uni get ill. It was a pretty nice View and the weather was also good. It was a great Trip and we had a lot of fun.
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@IvenBach Very intense, although it could have been even more intense with a white wall. Very nice build.
Yes, and it was a red line! 
It took me a moment to figure out what the picture of the stalk-eyed alien was all about…
Very well done! 
Been up there three weeks ago, without uni but with my one year old on the back. Took up the cable car and while hiking down the Gschlief to Bregenz I noticed some nice looking MTB trails that made me miss my muni. Took us 1 1/2 hours down and I was finished afterwards 
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Wow!
That’s on pavement?
Super impressed.
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Nice! I think the trails are only for hiking though, so i just went back down the road. But maybe next time i should try them anyway
Thank you! Yeah its on a paved road. I couldn’t do it so fast on gravel
Went out for a 5AM, morning ride around Reykjavík and took a couple of pictures outside Hallgrímskirkja.
This second one did not turn out great. I had nobody around to help me get a picture and no real way to setup the camera other than leaning it on a stone… but I took it anyway.
Also bought a couple of Kleinur (a type of Icelandic doughnut) at the single store I found open, to serve as my healthy breakfast.
I should have brought lights with me (I forgot to bring some to Iceland) and at one point I hit a drain in the dark that I did not see at all and came down very hard and fast. Some bruising and scrapes but I’ll be fine. I did need to walk it off for a few minutes before I could attempt to ride again.
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11-ish miles around Forbidden Drive today, just inside Philadelphia. This unpaved road is officially called “Wissahickon Drive” and follows the Wissahickon Creek but earned its nickname in 1921. There are some great mountain trails in here, but this semi-flat connector from Chestnut Hill (the 1800s bougie vacation spot for the wealthy) to Philly proper never registered for me as a mountainous ride.
Until today.
The part I rode is a 5.5 mile stretch from Chestnut Hill down to Lincoln Drive, one of the old thoroughfares to downtown Philly. I’ve ridden it many many many times on a 2-wheeler, a few times on a 36er, and today was the first on a 29 guni. The smaller wheel really picked up every exposed rock. I’m not sure how I didn’t notice the hills on the 36er, but there are some fun ones. (The road was originally “forbidden” for motor vehicles because of safety concerns.)
Lots of fun though, and a challenge I’m going to return to. About 2 miles of it is muni-lite (hill unicycling?) with alternating packed gravel and dirt hills with exposed rock, partially hidden by fallen leaves.
And it’s all crazily pretty this time of year, getting more striking by the day as the leaves change.
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Got another good ride under my belt today… Rode the 700x28c roughly 26 miles (41.8km)
I went out planning on only going halfway, though the weather was excellent and I felt pretty good at the halfway point, so I just decided to “send it” 
(Here’s a map of the trail that I rode, starting at the Northland Arboretum and going south towards Crow Wing State Park)
I managed to ride the first half of the trip with no UPDs, though after my rest stop at the southern trailhead I had a couple UPDs going back. One in particular could’ve turned out worse than it did… I was riding fairly fast when the tire struck a pine cone and I fell off. I couldn’t quite outrun the UPD and I ended up falling over and rolling onto my back. Thankfully my backpack protected me from getting scraped up too much, and I was wearing a helmet and some gloves. Only came away with a minor scrape on my elbow.
It also occurred to me during the ride that maybe I’m getting to the point where I should think about getting a proper handle setup… I’ve tried bearing some of my weight on the small handle on the front of the saddle using my arms, and it helped with the saddle discomfort. I can only imagine how a properly dialed-in handle setup must feel!
Having only done this ride once before on a 36er, it was a pleasant surprise to find out it’s not that bad to ride some distance on a comparatively smaller wheel. Actually I feel like the ride was easier this second time around, though I don’t know if I can attribute that to the different unis or just me getting more accustomed to riding longer distances.
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After spending a week out of the country, and a couple additional weeks traveling for business, I was finally able to get out on a familiar ride last night/evening. Even though this is a route that I complete quite often, much of the ride is on concrete/pavement/tarmac/sidewalk that is not flat and has many cracks, rises, dips, and ramps. Because of my comfort level with the route, I did not wear knee pads. Because of the crack gremlins and my overconfidence, I had a UPD at speed. I had visited the grocery store halfway through the ride, and was surprised that the glass jars in my backpack did not break. My knees got minor scrapes and/or bruises, so the main thing that got hurt was my pride, as my UPD was dramatic enough to result in one car driver turning his hazard lights on so that he could stop and check on me. Imagine a flying/sliding/rolling Superman, and that might describe my dismount.
All is good, though. Nothing was hurt and I was able to ride home without issue. I look forward to getting back out there and snapping more beautiful sunsets.
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Table Mountain across the bay at sunrise.
I’m very blessed to ride in a very beautiful part of the world.
Behind me is the Hottentots Holland mountain range with the Lourens River almost at its end as it joins the sea
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Horsham Powerline trail in upper Montgomery County, PA, just along the Bucks County border. Most of the leaves have fallen but there are still splashes of color out there…
About 4.5 miles of boring asphalt underneath high voltage power lines, with some rolling hills. Not very busy. I picked it for the rolling hills, since my ride along Forbidden Drive reminded me I hadn’t ridden any serious hills since before my knee surgery a few years back. I definitely need to build back some muscle.
Also a good place to practice shifting the guni when going up/down/flat. Lots of shift/pedal/pedal/shift for my brain to get more comfortable with the different balance while shifting gears on different inclines, and a short stretch just riding in high gear.
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Impressive! Which route did you take exactly? I’ll try it next year, I live about 50km away.
I got out with the dogs for a ride this morning. First ride in probably a year. I’m usually out building trail, today I decided to bring the muni and no digging implements.
I finally rode a stone bridge/mud crossing that I built last winter. Put a smile on my face going across it. A second or so to traverse what took over 150 man hours to build.
Construction photos.
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