Up here in Vancouver Canada we did our first club uni ride today. There are
potentially ten uni riders or so in this newly formed club but given the
long weekend and that this was our first ever ride we started out with a
small group of four. Our fearless leader and most experienced uni rider in
the pack, Mike, organized the ride and kept us riding at a pleasant pace for
three hours or so.
For those familiar to Vancouver, we rode across the Burrard Street bridge,
down along the seawall to English Bay, across the bottom of Stanley Park to
Davie Street and, get this, maneuvered all the way down Robson Street on the
sidewalk through the mobs of Saturday afternoon shoppers. This last part
was the most amazing part of the ride for me. The four of us were easy to
spot as we appeared above the crowds perched on our one wheelers. We rode
slowly and carefully. No one was offended by our riding by; in fact, our
presence seemed to add to the air of fun for tourists and locals alike. He
heard no ‘where’s the other wheel’ comments. I did hear one person say:
“… yeah, I know, and there’s four of 'em!!!”
It was the two month anniversary of starting to uni for me today and what a
way to celebrate. My riding buddies rode better than me but it was just
great to be riding with uni friends and I found that I did some of my best
urban riding so far because of riding up a few levels in keeping with the
others. I rode all over all kinds of uneven surfaces, down over curbs and
up all sorts of ragged concrete sidewalk ramps. It was such good fun to be
able to ride and have conversations with my friends at the same time. Only
one UPD all day!
All round a great day for me and a wonderful start to Vancouver’s new
unicycle club. (Hopefully a club website complete with logo soon to
come…)
Yes, please put in touch any locals that you know have who we might lasso
for our uni club. For more info, until we get the website up, I can be
reached at my home e-mail: beandawg@dirct.ca
Erin wrote:
>
> Up here in Vancouver Canada we did our first club uni ride today.
Erin,
That’s great! I’ve been pondering finding or starting a unicycling club
here in Alaska. I think it would be a good oppertunity to teach and
learn from other riders. Also, an official club could find an indoor
place to ride in the winter.
That’s a great idea,I’m gonna post a flyer at the bike shop in Nelson to see
if there’s any interest?
,There’s gotta be someone else
around here that rides muni?
Ymir
Tim
“Erin” <beandawg@direct.ca> wrote in message news:un39kbk2g0rb48@corp.supernews.com…
> Up here in Vancouver Canada we did our first club uni ride today. There
are
> potentially ten uni riders or so in this newly formed club but given the
> long weekend and that this was our first ever ride we started out with a
> small group of four. Our fearless leader and most experienced uni rider
in
> the pack, Mike, organized the ride and kept us riding at a pleasant pace
for
> three hours or so.
>
> For those familiar to Vancouver, we rode across the Burrard Street bridge,
> down along the seawall to English Bay, across the bottom of Stanley Park
to
> Davie Street and, get this, maneuvered all the way down Robson Street on
the
> sidewalk through the mobs of Saturday afternoon shoppers. This last part
> was the most amazing part of the ride for me. The four of us were easy to
> spot as we appeared above the crowds perched on our one wheelers. We rode
> slowly and carefully. No one was offended by our riding by; in fact, our
> presence seemed to add to the air of fun for tourists and locals alike.
He
> heard no ‘where’s the other wheel’ comments. I did hear one person say:
> “… yeah, I know, and there’s four of 'em!!!”
>
> It was the two month anniversary of starting to uni for me today and what
a
> way to celebrate. My riding buddies rode better than me but it was just
> great to be riding with uni friends and I found that I did some of my best
> urban riding so far because of riding up a few levels in keeping with the
> others. I rode all over all kinds of uneven surfaces, down over curbs and
> up all sorts of ragged concrete sidewalk ramps. It was such good fun to
be
> able to ride and have conversations with my friends at the same time.
Only
> one UPD all day!
>
> All round a great day for me and a wonderful start to Vancouver’s new
> unicycle club. (Hopefully a club website complete with logo soon to
> come…)
>
> Cheers,
> Erin
>
>
sounds like fun; i tried the e-mail (i live near vancouver) but it didn’t work for some reason. anyway my e-mail is uniboyca@hotmail.com so if someone could get back to me that would be great
hi my name is justin and i was wondering when you r next ride will be and if i can come i probably wouldnt no any body there but i could bring some more ppl ok
cheers ,
jus-10
Hope y’all enjoyed it!