CA MUni Weekend
Here are a few more pics from the CA MUni Weekend.
I’m on the right! 
Long waited Muni trip came true… even sleeting weather (1°C) and fog on the top didn’t stop us from having fun Hope we’ll get more than 4 people next time.
- Aspen - elevation 8,000’ 2439 meters
- Indy Pass summit - elevation 12,000 3658 meters
Near record high temps, off season, very grateful to live here.
Mike, you make our weather look mild 
How often do you need to change your clothes on the way to adjust to current temperature?
I went for a nice muni ride along the Yarra single track here in Melbourne this afternoon. Only about 15km but I guess it was my first “real” muni ride.
Oktoberfest
A local 5K race in the “burbs” of Seattle to celebrate Oktoberfest. I left dead last of over 1000 entrants. A half dozen people were openly skeptical that I could even finish the whole 5K on a unicycle and I in turn laughed and told them that I thought I might actually do just fine. It took several minutes to even get through the bottleneck at the Start Line and then lots of zigging and zagging but I passed 90% of the field within the first mile and had some mutual good fun with the skeptics and I know opened some eyes to the potential of a KH-29 unicycle.
Really nice event with excellent people and the Finish Line Party went till way too late. It was a good day to be a unicyclist.
I think your chances to finish were way superior compared to that chicken … 
Looks like it was a fun event Kevin. Where was that held? Great that you were there to represent us one-wheelers and show those skeptics a thing or two
I’m starting to fall into a semi-rythm with this unemployment thing so perhaps we can try again to get together for a ride.
Heck on a 29er with short cranks I imagine you could have easily beaten all the runners! Start in the front next time! I learned that from doing some local organized group rides. Those two wheelers often start out A LOT slower than I want to go and so I end up passing a whole lot of them before they end up settling in, same would go with riding in a running race. Pretty sweet that you got to ride the uni in a running race!
Tomorrow I’m supposed to be the “lead-bike” for a small local 5km, except that I’m riding my 36er! Should be fun!
Yeti: I wanted to tell them that I have done 9 Centuries on a unicycle but I was more interested in “backing it up than yacking it up”. Good or bad it is better not to let the past define me so I roll out and do the best I can and try make it about the win/win for everyone. Some people showed up and pushed strollers, walked dogs and took an hour to go the 5K, but there are no losers.
MuniSano: I was actually surprised how nicely the KH29 motors along with 125 mm hole setting. I usually ride on the 150mm setting with lots or torque for inclines but the 125 mm handled nicely. I went through radiation therapy after they took apart my left knee like a cheap toy to excise a tumor and it can’t take the impact of running much more than a 1/4 mile (I try periodically and promise myself not to do that again after the swelling subsides). I am jealous of runners but Uni is a whole universe of it’s own. Luck with your event(s)
Kava: Definitely up for riding. Have to get you hooked up with the SAR s. The Seattle Area Riders are the bomb and quite a few are close to you also. Any time I know I will be near Green Lake I do some laps on the 36’r because it is so smooth and uninterrupted and almost 3 miles for the loop. Really a pleasant ride, I’m jealous of people with easy access to that part of Seattle.
I was fortunate to get to do some riding while visiting my wife’s family in upstate New York.
Could the radiation therapy have given you unicycling superpowers? 
It works like that in the movies.
Scott
scott: I don’t have any super powers, maybe some “Super Glue”. At times my life reminds me of a movie…well, a cartoon anyway.
I am glad that you are able to ride a unicycle after your treatment.
Scott
Kevin,
I can’t imagine going through what you did with the surgeries, radiation, reconstruction and healing. Lucky for us you made out to the other side. Now the rest of us unicyclists can brag about having you in our midst. Not brag, as in “This guy has ridden 9 centuries after having his leg torn apart.” Nope, just plain ol’ brag “This guy has ridden 9 centuries on a unicycle!” You are an inspiration, regardless of your history. (Although you do get some bonus points there. :))
Geoff
An “impression” of this morning’s beach ride.
(I hope that was a raindrop that fell on my head!:p)
Scott: Thanks, and back at you.
Geoff: Thanks for the kind comments. I also brag that we have Doctors (You, for one) Lawyers,(unishark) Mad Scientists, (See Harper riding a uni on a Particle Accelerator) Ultra Marathoner (Zeke)…he can run 100 miles. Pretty much all the younger riders here have serious mad uni skills, Teachers, Crazy Cool Bike Builders (Brycer), DJ’s, Musically Gifted, no end of this list. Thanks for the inclusion, I like being anywhere on this list.
Went for a lovely (damp) ride beside the river with my wheel-dog Zappa at lunchtime today. She was pretty spent by the time I took this. She does not know how to pace herself.
I hope you’re enjoying the 29er, it looks like you have already rode it more km than I ever did. 