This gallery includes photos of the ferry trip to and from Bainbridge Island,WA and the staging area for the Seattle Torchlight Parade for the Seafair festival. The sheer number of unicycles in most of the photos is staggering and does not do justice to seeing it in person. There were unicycles endlessly pouring first onto and then off of one of the Washington State ferries. Many fulfilled their requirement of riding a unicycle on a moving vehicle here.
The staging area for the parade shows pile after pile of unicycles separated by groups…TCUC, Panther Pride, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Canada, Puerto Rico, US Independents, Japan, China, on and on. Photo #63 shows me riding Bill Gilbertson’s 42" big wheel. Yes, I mounted it on the first try.
Whats with the wires?? I have never seen anything like that before? are they just a trainer thing so that you dont fall?? or is it to get more height on a jump? They seem like they might be fun to play with.
Those are POWER LINES, you ninnies! I’m a ‘legtrical engineer. Sorry about no pictures today…I forgot to take my camera. I was in the 10k unlimited with the uni.5 and reached my goal of completing the race without falling off. I thought my 31 minutes was a respectable time unless compared to Roger Davies’ 24 minutes. Worse yet, Nathan Hoover beat me on my own Coker which I loaned him. I even had long cranks on it. I flattened the tire and put sticks in the spokes and he STILL pulverized me. Last time Nathan sees any loaners from me.
There was a Japanese guy on a 24" wheel with 2" to 3" cranks that placed way up there. I did take something like eighth place in the world…out of a field of about thirteen. It was a scream.
