On the radio the other day, they had a $300 dollar question, and it was “Who
invented unicycle jousting?”. Just out of pure curiosity who did?
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RE: Unicycle-jousting
> On the radio the other day, they had a $300 dollar question, and it was "Who
> invented unicycle jousting?". Just out of pure curiosity who did?
Bill Jenack published some pictures of guys doing it in 1977 I think, in the USA
Newsletter. I think these guys were in Toronto.
That beats the guys at Microsoft who were shown doing it in one of their
recruitment brochures a few years back…
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Re: Unicycle-jousting
Two guys from Microsoft. See http://www.unicycling.org/unicycling/unijoust.html
I’m sure those two aren’t the first to try unicycle jousting. It would be
interesting to find out who was crazy enough to actually try it first. Has
anyone tried jousting on a giraffe? And a mini giraffe doesn’t count.
john_childs
>From: Amelia Odens <ADO@unicyclist.com> On the radio the other day, they had a
>$300 dollar question, and it was “Who invented unicycle jousting?”. Just out of
>pure curiosity who did?
>
>~Amelia~
>
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RE: Unicycle-jousting
> Two guys from Microsoft. See
> http://www.unicycling.org/unicycling/unijoust.html
>
> I’m sure those two aren’t the first to try unicycle jousting.
The above web page mentions that Brian Lewis originally did it in the mid 70’s
at Oregon State University. Maybe he saw the pictures in the USA Newsletter or
vice-versa. The guys in Canada were a little more safety conscious though; they
used rolled up computer paper for lances, so they would crumple on impact.
Unicycle jousting just seems like such an appropriate activity sometimes. We
should probably add it to our competitions…
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone http://www.unicycling.com
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RE: Unicycle-jousting
I’m assuming that once you fall off the unicycles, you produce razor sharp
juggling machetes and dual to the death. This would make it closer to real
horseback jousting 
nic
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From: Mark Wiggins <M.Wiggins@ftel.co.uk> Sent: Friday, 31 March 2000 20:16 To:
<unicycling@winternet.com> Subject: Re: Unicycle-jousting
<<File: Mime.822>> John Childs wrote:
> Has anyone tried jousting on a giraffe?
There was some impromptu giraffe unicycle jousting at the 5th British Juggling
Convention in Coventry (1992, IIRC). This was the conclusion to a round of
giraffe unicycle gladiators during the games in the lower precinct - a paved
shopping area. Only two riders were mad enough to participate and after some
time with neither of them being knocked down, someone produced some makeshift
lances and the jousting began.
Regards, Mark.
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Re: Unicycle-jousting
Its says underneath that that “Brian” invented this lunacy. “John Childs”
<john_childs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Two guys from Microsoft. See
> http://www.unicycling.org/unicycling/unijoust.html
>
> I’m sure those two aren’t the first to try unicycle jousting. It would be
> interesting to find out who was crazy enough to actually try it first.
Has
> anyone tried jousting on a giraffe? And a mini giraffe doesn’t count.
>
> john_childs
>
> >From: Amelia Odens <ADO@unicyclist.com> On the radio the other day, they had
> >a $300 dollar question, and it was “Who invented unicycle jousting?”. Just
> >out of pure curiosity who did?
> >
> >~Amelia~
> >
>
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Re: Unicycle-jousting
John Childs Wrote:
> I’m sure those two aren’t the first to try unicycle jousting. It would be
> interesting to find out who was crazy enough to actually try it first.
Has
> anyone tried jousting on a giraffe? And a mini giraffe doesn’t count.
A Mini giraffe would be too hard! (unless it had it’s cheat seat post). It is
the British Juggling Convention soon and I will have 2 x 5’ giraffes with me so
I will give it a try.
Roger
> john_childs
>
> >From: Amelia Odens <ADO@unicyclist.com> On the radio the other day, they had
> >a $300 dollar question, and it was “Who invented unicycle jousting?”. Just
> >out of pure curiosity who did?
> >
> >~Amelia~
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Re: Unicycle-jousting
John Childs wrote:
> Has anyone tried jousting on a giraffe?
There was some impromptu giraffe unicycle jousting at the 5th British Juggling
Convention in Coventry (1992, IIRC). This was the conclusion to a round of
giraffe unicycle gladiators during the games in the lower precinct - a paved
shopping area. Only two riders were mad enough to participate and after some
time with neither of them being knocked down, someone produced some makeshift
lances and the jousting began.
Regards, Mark.
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Re: Unicycle-jousting
this has nothing to do with the jousting, but your signature made me crack up.
in the land of pedestrians, the one wheeled man is king. hahaha !! love it
chris carey ‘will be riding balboa beach to huntington beach tomorrow… no air
seat ouch! any takers?’
“Mark Wiggins” <M.Wiggins@ftel.co.uk> wrote in message
news:38E47AE4.6D385EC5@ftel.co.uk…
> John Childs wrote:
> > Has anyone tried jousting on a giraffe?
>
> There was some impromptu giraffe unicycle jousting at the 5th British Juggling
> Convention in Coventry (1992, IIRC). This was the conclusion to a round of
> giraffe unicycle gladiators during the games in the lower precinct - a paved
> shopping area. Only two riders were mad enough to participate and after some
> time with neither of them being knocked down, someone produced some makeshift
> lances and the jousting began.
>
> Regards, Mark.
>
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Re: Unicycle-jousting
Does anyone want to take my lances (Rog, Mini ect) to the BJC, you can even take
the chix on stix if you want- you may need to get shields though,
Duncan & Christine
(Unstable & Unable)
unicycleSourceUK <Roger.Davies@octacon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> John Childs Wrote:
>
> > I’m sure those two aren’t the first to try unicycle jousting. It would
be
> > interesting to find out who was crazy enough to actually try it first.
> Has
> > anyone tried jousting on a giraffe? And a mini giraffe doesn’t count.
>
> A Mini giraffe would be too hard! (unless it had it’s cheat seat post).
It
> is the British Juggling Convention soon and I will have 2 x 5’ giraffes
with
> me so I will give it a try.
>
> Roger
>
> > john_childs
> >
> > >From: Amelia Odens <ADO@unicyclist.com> On the radio the other day, they
> > >had a $300 dollar question, and it was “Who invented unicycle jousting?”.
> > >Just out of pure curiosity who did?
> > >
> > >~Amelia~
>
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