Why won’t it stop raining?! I can’t recall the last day without rain or fog we’ve had for weeks… while I can still muni (on a rather tiny and none-too-interesting wooded area, mind) I want to practice trials, but it’s rather scary if the place is soaking wet and slippery.
What’s with photos and videos with the corners “rounded off”? I keep running across them… it looks like the picture is taken through a fishbowl. Strange indeed…
Phil, just me
Come and live in outback Australia (I live close to the city so this doesn’t apply to me) where there hasn’t been any real rain for months. I feel your pain about all that rain.
As for the photos and videos, I don’t like it. It seems really popular and it annoys me when people do this to an otherwise great photo or clip. Does anyone know why they do it?
Andrew Carter
What do you mean? The snow, or sleet, or rain or whatever is happening just adds to the challenges of trials 
it’s really quite fun when you’re pedal and shoe are covered in ice, and you’re trying a line you’ve never tried before (that looks hard) If you can do it in the rain, imagine how easy it would be in the dry weather.
Well, that’s about it, now get out there and ride 
-Ryan
That’s the problem, I can’t do it in the rain… it’s just too slippy. Given I’m still very much a novice trials jumper, jumping up stuff is scary enough as it is without a very high probability of starting a rolling hop only to find the wheel skids, sending me crashing off…
NB. Now it’s sunday morning, and it’s (still) chucking it down…
Phil, just me
it was raining today and i still had your lament for the british weather rinnging in my ears,
so i went out anyway, to the skate park.
the rain eased off a bit and i was starting to get “in the zone” doing some fairly good moves.
my grinding technique got much better, now its more take a rolling jump, land on the rail, grind along unitll i hit the end and then fall off.
rather than launch self a rail hope for the best.
but i did a few UPDs and ended up doing a break-fall,
the idea with a break fall is to roll out of the fall, this is great theory but it’s not as much fun in the real world when you get soaked to the skin and covered in mud by the 3" deep puddle of muddy water that lurks beside the grind rail.
apart from that though it was great.
Grinding is soo much better in the wet.
The effect on the videos is a technique with a fish-eye lens that enables the centre of the shot to look bigger and therefore stand out alot.
Its used loads in sk8ing videos and stuff to make the trick look better.
We had the first sunny day for three weeks today:D 
But the mud is still there… oh yes, the mud is still there.
I was covered in mud; the muni was absolutely plastered in the stuff, and dripping on my carpet; the seat has turned mud colour and is now in the sink… my shoes weighed a lot more after I’d finished than before… but aaaaah, it was great fun…
Phil, just me
yeah but the ground’s dry and the suns out so don’t remind me about the mud.
i’m in a good mood and would like to keep it that way.
The sun’s out? At 9pm? Which Southampton, England are you in? I’m evidently living in the wrong place…
Phil, just me
You know what i mean.
Do you know any1 who has a Miyata they might want to sell?, even if it’s battered. 
If I did, I’d have probably bought it by now… 
Phil, just me
Miyata Unicycles
You can find them on ebay. they start at $99.00 and nobody has been bidding on them.
No i meant a Miyata seat, sorry, i should be more specific.