Andy Cotter drove the support van during RTL for the all-woman team, Venus: Irene Genelin, Louise Lovelle, and Michele Manna-Hastings. In 2008, he wrote:
“I started unicycling in 1986 while in high school; they needed a unicyclist for the play called Barnum. Learning to unicycle for the school play was quite a challenge; I managed to balance my way across the stage for the performances without falling. From those unstable beginnings I have proceeded to unicycle my way across the globe. In the process I attended twenty national and ten international unicycle conventions taking several national and international titles. In 1999 I got into long distance unicycling organizing Unicycle Across Minnesota, the first long distance ride of its kind. Since then I have participated in six long distance unicycle tours.”