Hello.
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My name is Ivan and I live in Cyprus. It’s a small sunny island in the Mediterranean, the Southern part of which is inhabited by Greek Cypriots, immigrants of various origins(British, Russian and Philippine predominant), many different come-and-go tourists and me. All in all, the population is at about 700 thousand people. From all that lot, I seem to be the only one who rides a unicycle. But it doesn’t have to be like that.
I got the bug of unicycling from a visiting Israeli circus troop, which our theatre had a workshop with and who had a unicycle. They had a unicycle and I had a go on the unicycle. It felt good. I couldn’t ride it, but it felt good nevertheless. I looked unicycling up on the internet, downloaded some videos(notably, Universe II trailer and “How to Hop Quite High” by Ryan Atkins) and understood that this is it. All I needed was a unicycle. About a year later I managed to come up with the money and bought myself a 24" splined qu-ax, which I’m still riding, although quite heavily modified. I knew what sort of riding I wanted to do before getting the uni and got the uni needed for it(maybe not the right size, some would say, but I call it art by misadventure). This is how I ended up without a learner uni. Which is okay, only now when people want to learn I’ve got nothing to offer to them, except for a 24" qu-ax with pinned metal pedals and a high seat-post.
And I’ve had quite a few people that wanted to learn. This girl, who’s a neighbour of mine always wants to have a go on my uni when she sees it. She can ride about 10 metres on a good day, but she’d be much better if she had a unicycle to practice on in her own time. Some random kids and friends who also get interested enough to try, but not interested enough to buy one. Oh well, never mind them. My decision to get a learner uni was caused by my girlfriend saying that she’s gonna buy a unicycle to learn on(my saddle is too high for her), but after Christmas(she can’t afford one right now). She said she really wants to learn. That’s great, isn’t it? But Christmas… It’s too far away… How about now?
I can’t afford to buy a uni either, so I’m turning to you for help. Has anyone got a working learner uni they feel like parting with? Someone in Europe, preferably, shipping from other places would probably cost an arm and a leg. I’ll pay the shipping. In return, the person who donates the unicycle will receive a big warm Cyprus thanks, an honourary place in Cyprus history of unicycling textbook(to be published) and a “special thanks to” in the credits of all my coming videos.
Thank you to whoever is reading this, hope you understand.
Catch you on the flip side,
Ivan
