Great pic!
Great photo!
Thank you !!
Compared to last week I added almost 1 MPH (6.4 vs. 5.5) with many fewer UPDs on my 26" freewheel unicycle ride.
What a beautiful area; is that anywhere near S.L.O., by chance?
Yup, Poly Canyon Rd.
Wow, that’s quite a ride on that thing! How are your freewheel skills progressing?
Some pictures from yesterday’s Brooklyn Unicycle Day ride from City Hall (Manhattan) to Coney Island (Brooklyn). Around 65 riders started out for the ride over the Brooklyn Bridge. A number with smaller wheels or other agendas dropped off after crossing the bridge and perhaps 40 odd riders made the trip all the way to Coney Island. It was a very fun day.
The first picture is at the our break in Prospect Park. There were rumblings of starting a bonfire.
The second picture are some riders behind me with the top of my helmet in view.
The last picture is crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. It is a little known fact that alien autopsies are performed on the bridge at night. We are seen passing through that area. You can see some of the equipment to the right.
How long of a ride is that? Did the giraffe on top of the pile make it? Sounds like a fun day.
Excellent , and thank you Waalrus for the map!
Very well. I think I’ll match my fixed wheel muni skills in a few weeks, although that’s not saying much. On trails steep downhill is still difficult, especially if it’s bumpy or rocky. On pavement I’m continuing to work on speed and longer stretches of coasting which is easier on the larger wheel. I haven’t tried hopping or jumping but that’s something I’d like to tackle. Thanks for asking! It’s definitely my most fun and most versatile unicycle.
De nada.
Slovak Muni Championship 
It’s nice to ride in separate Muni category. More writeup will come with more photos in following days.
For my recent birthday my wife gave me a little cheap helmet camera. Perhaps it was for her to see that I didn’t get up to any mischief! Now I can show you the challenges I have to face in the land where contour lines are so few and far between - Cambridge UK. However, someone has also recently submitted a view of the Cambridge-Huntingdon guided bus-way.
I have tried to keep the image size down as there are quite a few. (This leads to loss of quality.) I’ve also never attached images before - so here goes.
Setting off from Girton Recreational Ground I have to go round the edge of the football and cricket pitches. Although I know the groundsman, I am always careful about the state of the pitch so that I do not cut too deeply into the turf. Recently, with so little rain, the going has been “fair to firm”.
I then join a track that has three of these modern kissing gates. This one has a sharp dip just in front and yesterday was the first time I have ever been able to get to the gate without a dismount. I was at just the right phase of the cycle to allow me to brake by back pedalling.
This leads to a narrow track. Oddly there are two tracks, as you can see, but the right hand one is better for cycling, despite having to force my way past thorn bushes. And there is a UPD making gap between the two so I cannot easily switch.
Let me now introduce you to Jess. That’s the dog and not the elderly lady.
Jess, whom I had never met before (nor the lady for that fact), appeared to be a fearsome black bull terrier of some sort. He stood aggressively looking at me as I approached carefully. We are always wary of dogs after all. But Jess turned and ran! And ran… and ran.
The old lady ran after Jess. “Jess, stay!”, “Jess, come here!” And all Jess could do was to look over his shoulder before sprinting still further into the distance. Cycling beside/behind the lady I chatted asking whether Jess had done this type of thing before. “No, never. He’s obviously a very timid dog!” “Can Jess find his way home?” I asked. “I don’t know,” came the reply. I must have completely spooked the poor mutt.
I decided to leave old lady with her new quest, jogging after some black dot on the horizon, and for me to pursue a different route. As we parted, I said that I hoped she would find her dog. “But he’s not my dog! I’m just walking him.” Ooo-err!
Google “inspector clouseau quotes dog bite” and watch the video!
I reached the guided bus-way. Not the most interesting of routes. The sunlight shining on the tracks burns lines into your retina. After a short while I became aware of someone behind me, keeping pace. Presently he drew level, and we chatted. He was impressed at how easy I seemed to make it look. [Head swells] And he asked some sensible questions about learning etc..
When he noticed I had Muni tyres, I explained that we had to part company shortly as a field track was calling. As I approached this track I met a father with a little 2-3 year old on bikes. Passing them the father pointed out that I had one wheel.
Reaching Westwick, I had a choice - a long way home along more paths, or a quick way home back along the bus-way so that I would then have time for some slacklining on the “Rec”. I chose the quick route, only to meet the father and son again. “There’s another man on one wheel,” said the boy. “No, it’s the same gentleman!” I’ve never been called a “gentleman” before and it feels odd to be called “Sir”!
A different route home from the bus-way took me across other fields and back into Girton.
There we are. Hardly AspenMike territory. But it’s what we have.
Jerry
Very entertaining post 
If you are ever unfortunately arrested, please write your statement in that style 
Cool pictures too!
Rode some new territory today and had an absolute blast. Finally managed to get out of my Muni rut, and was killing it today, able to ride everything that I wanted to. Ended up with an 11-12 mile loop and ~1600 vertical.
Planning to head back up tomorrow for some more fun on what I wasn’t able to ride today.
Aspen Mike style:
Lots and lots of bridges to ride on and jump off of…
I’d have taken more pics of the trail, but I was having too much fun riding it. Came across an awesome bridge feature with some stacked 2x4’s that you climb up, I’ll have to get pics of that tomorrow if I remember, it was crazy cool.
So far, the best trail I’ve ridden to date. A moderate climbe, intermediate tech, with enough rocks and roots to be fun, but not so much as to make riding a chore. Scenery was spectacular as well…
Any of you other Utahrds out there, if you’re in the Ogden area, GO TO SNOWBASIN. Forget what you were doing in Ogden, and grab your Muni.
Was up at 5am this morning for a 120 mile drive to Santa Barbara. (Just got back home at 3pm!) I’ve ridden most of the trails there over the years, but this was the first time I rode the top half of Cold Springs trail. Holy MOLY! Pretty much from the get-go, awesome, super chunky rock gardens almost all the way down! I felt like a kid in a candy store, but the candy was the terrain, and I could enjoy as much as I wanted!
Btw, since my back and finger injuries have not totally healed, I wore extra gear, including wrist guards and elbow/forearm guards. At first glance I was like, “should I risk more injury by riding this stuff?” A voice inside my head said, uh, you came all this way, so GO FOR IT!
How’d you get hurt? Looks like you had great fun anyway!
Two separate injuries. First was more than 4 months ago when I jammed the 4th finger of my right hand. Thought it was just a bad sprain but turned out to be fractured. I had to wear a splint for several weeks but as of today it’s still painful and I can’t make a complete fist yet. Fortunately, it’ not my “lift handle” hand, so I can still ride without too much problem…unless I re-sprain it!
Second and worse injury was about 2 months ago when I UPD’d down a jagged rocky section of another trail. I fell head-over heels, landing hard on my lower back against a protruding rock, causing a very large, painful hematoma, the size of a small water balloon! There’s still some swelling but it’s much smaller now. The fall can be seen in the video I shot and posted a while ago. Luckily today I didn’t have any bad falls.
@Killian: Which trails (other than Green Pond Trail) did you ride. I went up there with my MTB a year or so ago and the trail I picked would have been a horror show on a uni. I could barely ride most of it on my singlespeed, and my partner walked a bunch that day. Clearly I chose poorly, and you chose better. So, help me out - please!
My buddy (on a bike) and I parked at the Art Nord TH on Old Snowbasin Road. Then we started up the East Fork Trail and took that to Green Pond. Then you take Green Pond to Needles, and Needles to Maples. Then it’s Maples back to the car.
I didn’t see anything overly technical today, and for the average Muni rider with decent climbing legs, the whole thing is rideable. Maybe you guys took Sardine? I know that’s a decent climb…
Tomorrow I’m going back to do Middle Fork, Ice Box, and Sardine.
Here’s the ride I did today:
Right up by the resort, Green Pond continues up the mountain, and Needles takes off across the resort. My buddy and I stayed on Green Pond, and it was a decent climb with LOADS of bikers coming down from the lift served areas. That’s when we realized you need to divert to Needles to avoid getting flattened by DH bikers that are too good to pedal ‘up’ a mountain. 
Here’s a ‘fairly’ typical section of trail for the first section of the ride. Green Pond has some truly nasty bits, but they are short lived and kind of fun. Maples is solid intermediate but nothing crazy.
Ridge Trail, Galbraith Mountain, Bellingham WA
First muni ride in my new fullface helmet. Been seven weeks now since Lanaboos crashed. My first muni ride after the crash.
No, the helmet really isn’t that hot to ride in. No, I didn’t need it this trip. I’ll never need it for the ride. I still hope I never need it for the fall/crash. Lanaboos DID need it for the fall/crash but wasn’t wearing one. I’ll never forget the adventure this fall/crash has started.
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We did Porcupine on he way up and Sardine on the way down. I might do that in reverse some day, but never in that order again. Your ride looks a lot more fun. It’s on my to-do list now. Thanks for the tips!
I’ll be curious to hear how your ride tomorrow goes.