*UK* Chicksands, Bedfordshire - 20/04/2008 *UK*

Wait, what?

We have to ride our unicycles?

Excellent guys! So we are only one person down (Dave :(). Looks like it is going to be a great turnout, should be a great day!

Gk, when Leo, Joe and I went to Chicksands last year it was hammering down and the northshore didn’t seem very slippy. In fact I was really surprised at how grippy it was when soaked, because like you I thought it would be unridable.

See you all tomorrow! REALLY EXCITED!

Edd

No, the whole point of going to a MTB park instead of on a long ride is that you can just stand around and pose.

Excellent!
(Pose No. 23 - standing with one leg on a log and sheilding my eyes)

I knew all that catalogue work would come in handy.

Well, heres all the pictures.
Was a great day, met loads of cool new people. Thanks to everyone who made the effort to come along, especially Sean who came all the way from Wales! Was good to see some old friends, like Neil, AJ and Gk as well as some fairly new friends, Rich and Lou.

Thanks for making it a great day everyone.
I didn’t really get many good riding photos, but I think these ones sum the day up pretty well!

The start of the day, standing around chatting in the car park.

Sean posing, pretending to put his pads on.

More standing around chatting in the car park.

Leo

AJ

Spencer, dropping in.

The unicycles.

Standing around chatting in the woods

Me, doing a JUMP!

Theres nothing better than finishing a Muni ride with a burger bigger than your head!

I had loads of fun!
Edd

At least you got my good side.

Here’s one of Edd elegantly dismounting…

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And here’s one of Norry clearing the horribly narrow section.

Well, not really clearing it because he fell off two seconds after I took the picture, but nobody else is going to know that right?
And it looks as if he’s going to make make it.
And he did clear it a few go’s later.
So we’ll just pretend that he did on this try, yeah?
If we don’t talk about it, no one will ever know.

Did I say that out loud?

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I didn’t realise how close I got!

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Uff!
Squirrelly, as AJ would say.

Mad props on clearing it though.
(I think that’s what the kids today say)

GNAAARRRLY!

I saw some real improvement from lots of people on that day.

Edd continues to make everyone with a Uni look much cooler than they really are :slight_smile: (I speak for myself of course)

Well, thanks guys for an excellent day. I know I certainly had a great time, even if the train journey home did take over 3 hours !

I only managed to get just over 200 photos, so I hope that’s enough :smiley: Just finished uploading them here;
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/spencer.owen/ChicksandsMuniRide

The full size ones are around 3mb each, so if you want any particular ones, let me know and I’ll email them over to you.

Cheers

STM

Three hours!?
You lucky, lucky b@st@rd!

And again, thanks for not riding over me when I fell in front of you.

Wait, what?
I was there for seven hours and I took five photographs!

I must be doing something wrong.

Ah see, you did waaay too much riding. That’ll teach you for riding at a unicycle meet!

Excellent photos Spencer! I hope you don’t mind me posting my favorites on here. I couldn’t work out how to attach them so I saved them and uploaded to my photobucket, hope you don’t mind!
Heres some of my favorites from Spencers set.

Nice friendly atmosphere

Leo clearing the gap

Nice little train

AJ, just before pain

During pain

Probably still in pain!

Spencer, rockin’ the seesaw!

Gk, riding the Northshore.

Everyone watching me climb back up the hill.

Gotta say well done to Gavin for conquering his fear and giving the Northshore a go. He was mounting and idleing(!!!???!?!?!?!!?!?!!) on it unassisted after 10 minutes practising. Well done mate!

Wanna be back there.

Edd

Not a problem (Just make sure my name is credited to them on Photobucket :slight_smile: )

I think you managed to pick out my favourite ones too! How did you know?

STM

Cheers guys, had a great time and enjoyed meeting everyone.

Took these photos of Edd - flying as usual, and Norry avoiding the bins:)

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Forgot to say, kudos to Steve.
The man’s enthusiasm is incredible.

I’ve never seen someone create their own trails before.

(I’m not kidding here)

Juniky

Thanks Sean - I had a great time - I was like a big playgound and I couldn’t get enough of it.

Really great to be around with so many unicyclists feeding my addiction.

Can’t wait for the next fix.

Thanks everybody :slight_smile: