My latest ride was in my kitchen last night after I finished assembling my KH Trials. It started life as a stock Nimbus Blizzard, and I have slowly bought enough KH parts to call it my first offical KH Unicycle. The only parts that aren’t KH now are the wheel build and pedals. I have a Maxxis Creepy Crawler in the garage, but I didn’t have time to install that last night.
Someone saw me riding, and asked if I could “Juggle”. Since I didn’t have any bowling pins or tennis balls handy, I used the next best thing!
Salt Lake City’s Millcreek Canyon Pipeline Trail
I “rode the pipeline” again today – this time all the way out to the overlook (end of the line) from Burch Hollow & back (9.6 miles). 5:45 a.m. start and the weather was awesome (50 degrees F, light breeze, 5% humidity). Round-trip time was about 80 minutes. The first photo is of me at the end of the line from this morning, the other three are from when Nurse Ben & I rode the pipeline last September, to give you a better idea of the scenery and varied nature of the trail – from dry scrub to forest.
It ain’t quite on the level of the scenery that Aspen Mike’s got, but it’s not too shabby and it’s a 10 min. drive from my home.
Trees in Utah? I guess it’s been a while since I’ve been there. When did you get those?
Very nice picture and trick!
They slid down the hill from Colorado
My latest rides
Pic 1: There are a few dozen penny farthings at this place.
Pic 2: My teddy bear ears are actually pivoting headphones. Good for hearing herons creep up on you ( just to the right in the picture)
Did you talk them into giving you a free tea?
Haha I see why you said that. I just noticed the sign on the left offering free tea to PF riders! Alas no, I made an impression but I was still a mono wheel
First muni this year at last
One wheel too much in a group but still great ride
Starting friday, into yesterday, I competed in the Powderhorn 24, a community checkpoint race with about 275 bikers and 12 uni riders racing around south Minneapolis. Team “All Wheel Drive” (Scott Wilton, Dan Hansen, Me, Dave Krack) before the race, and Scott coming in fast finishing a lap mid afternoon. We managed 62 laps, for a little over 300 miles even though Dan had to be MIA for about ten hours on saturday.
Also included is some of the street art the organizers painted on the road for the event.
Here is The Beast posing in front of the entrance to the now defunct Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital on County Road 520 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Needless to say it had a shady reputation and since its closing legends have arisen about it and its grounds. It is at about the halfway point on a 17 mile ride I did today along a route I’ve been wanting to try. My new Camelbak Lobo has made such long solo rides very doable.
Melburn Roobaix
It was the Melburn Roobaix ride down here yesterday. This is a social “event” run by Fyxomatosis that is loosely based on the Spring Classics. This year it involved 2012 riders (plus a bunch of tag alongs), 40km of riding, 12 pave sections (on the bluestone cobbled alleyways) and most importantly 4 unicyclist (Matt, Sam, Sam and me) and one support crew (Michelle).
Event link: http://www.fyxomatosis.com/index.php/melburn-roobaix-mainmenu
Here are some photos from the event that we took and some I found on Facebook.
Excellent, looks great. Nice going team!
Nice ride JJuggle, talk to a few of the patients? Camelbacks are the best.
Thats sweet, I like the guys expression on pic 1. Great fun, nice going.
Haven’t yet found a pic of me on the ride - anyway I was an interloper and only did one lap, most of which I ran.
Here’s a pic of Roger from UDC UK at about 3pm when it was starting to dry up (before the worst bit of the course)
…and a pic of Ben (? I think I’ve got your name right - apologies if not) right at the end
and here’s a pic of my uni afterwards, which is actually pretty clean compared to some of the others at that stage, as it had been raining solidly for an hour by the time I finished my lap and the mud had turned to soup
Here’s some more (got permission to hotlink now)
From http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishcyclingphotos/sets/72157630276570202/with/7438185086/
britishcycling.org.uk photos. Pictures from a muddy Wiggle Mountain Mayhem 2012. Pictures by Ed Rollason.
Mountain Mayheim
All that money spent saving weight seems a little wasted now???