Weapon of Choice
This has been the week of unicycling. I’ve been to campus 4 times to shred since I got the new KH20 in on monday. It’s been pretty much off the hook. It basically opened up a whole new realm on campus. Whereas I was pretty limited as to what I could climb up on, now it seems almost endless. In the picture to the left, the wall that the uni is sitting against is about 30 inches high, and it goes no problem. I’ve climbed some stuff that is even higher than that as well. I know it must be pretty nutso, because I’ve had 2 random people take pictures of me doing stuff on the unicycle this week alone. Usually people just kinda look at you funny and walk by, but I guess I was being a bit ridiculous jumping off 4-5 foot drops, and gapping over sets of 5-6 stairs. I just gotta learn to land that stuff backwards and ride out of it that way…
Unicycling is crazy enough, but I finally got my ass downtown and the guys at “Absolute Bikes”:http://www.absolutebikes.com hooked me up with a super-cheapo BMX wheel with a 14mm thru-axel. You guessed it, the impossible wheel in the picture above (also called a BC wheel, after the comic strip BC), went to campus today as well. I think I almost killed myself and somebody else the first time I got on it, because it shot out from under me at about 100 miles an hour and I fell right on my ass. But, after about an hour of playing, I was riding it pretty consistant on some nice mellow downhill slopes, and was even able to start without holding onto anything.
It’s absolutely nuts. I equate the balance feeling to that of a slackline, except on a slackline you only have to worry about the side-to-side motion, not the front-to-back. On the BC wheel, it’s every direction at once. I can’t wait until I can grind on the thing…….
Finally, I promised some pictures of the recent construction project for when I get too lazy to go down to campus and ride the unicycles. A couple ‘sandwich boards’ and a 16 foot, 1.5-inch wide balance beam. I’ve successfully ridden the balance beam a couple times, but it’s not consistant yet. I think it will be soon enough………….
Dude sounds like your rippin it on the uni. And ridding an ultimate wheel! But looking at the photo it doesnt look like the ultimates wheel I’ve seen. I thought it was suppose to be a uni-cycle without a frame. I’ve tried one and its a bitch. The nice ones look like they thread the pedals into a board mounted in the center of the rim. I whould think this might make it alot easier since you dont side load it so much when you pedal. Look a reason for another toy! Drop me an e-mail if your down in Tucson this winter. I’ll be staying by UofA and hopefull riding the uni alot on campus. Its a great campus for it. Keep shreadin. Randy b.g.r
- Dini
Link | November 23rd, 2005 at 8:15 am
Uhh yeah…. what I ment to say was nice impossible wheel bro
Did you happen to see the video where the guy rigs model rocket engines to one??
- Dini
Link | November 23rd, 2005 at 3:52 pm
No I haven’t seen that video, sounds pretty crazy. You got a linky for it?
I’ve tried riding the uni without holding the seat (ala ultimate wheel), and it’s freakin’ tough. Sombody once told me that you have to grease up the inside of your legs so that the tire can slide when you first start off, sounds pretty painful.
Are you headin to the SSAZ ride in january this year? I’m probably gonna try to head down there, we should go shred that weekend, maybe after the hangover is worn off on sunday…..
- Nathan
Link | November 23rd, 2005 at 5:17 pm