My first four-miler.

BraveSirStupid said:

*As promised, i rode the tevatron ring on a little Sun 20" uni.
*

Wow, what a great ride on a 20" uni. Way to persevere.

If it turns out you like doing the distance, you might want to check out
the Coker. It would make much quicker work of that circle.

PS: what is the "tevatron ring" exactly? I'm assuming it's this same
structure seen via satellite 'here.' (http://tinyurl.com/b5rdx) Looks
like something the govt or military would build.

Keep pedaling in circles! John Foss will tell you that the best way to
learn to spin on a uni is to practice riding in a circle then make it
tighter and tighter over time. You've got the first step pretty much
nailed 🙂.

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I'm suprised only 20% think you are a nutbag. I'm sure its 100% where I
work, but they are too polite to say exactly what they think.

Thats an interesting place to work - what exactly is it used for?

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Ah ha! This is what it is:

Fermilab is home to the Tevatron, the world's highest-energy particle
accelerator (and cool place to ride unicycles).

Four miles in circumference, the Tevatron is housed in a tunnel about 30
feet below the big ring you see in this aerial view of the laboratory.
We use a series of accelerators to send particles racing around the
Tevatron at 99.9999 percent of the speed of light in a vacuum. The
particles complete the four-mile course nearly 50 thousand times a
second. However, Unicycles are not expected to meet this performance
data.

http://www.fnal.gov/

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DUDE thats like the place in angels and demons... what a cool place to
work...

Chase

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Who's in Waxahachee? (sorry if I misspelled that) Whoever it is, do you
know there's a Chautauqua there? Ever been? I work at the "Mother
Chautauqua" in New York and would be interested to hear what it's like
at yours. We actually have some people from Waxahachee coming to
Chautauqua this summer to give a presentation.

Sorry for being off topic...just had to mention that.

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Off topic response.

If I'm not mistaken, Waxahachee is the location of a failed attempt to
build the world's largest particle accellerator. I remember living in
Houston reading about the project failing to be finished due in part to
fire ants getting into and eating up sensitive utility conduit.....does
this sound familiar, BraveSirStupid?

HistoricalGoof:
Another off topic response. I'm going to be in Chautauqua, NY on the
16th of July (playing horn in the Mahler 7 concert). Wanna ride?

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Congrats on the four miler on a 20" which is quite a feat. It's nice to
see someone else riding on top of particle accelerators, too.

The revs on a Coker would have been 36/20 or 1.8 (7.2 miles)

I believe that the Tevatron is the highest energy per nuleon accelerator
at 1000 GeV for protons and anti-protons, both AMU 1. The highest energy
accelerator I believe is the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at
Brookhaven National Lab. It accelerates colliding gold beams, AMU 197,
to 30 GeV per nucleon for a total ion energy of a little over 6000 GeV.
More energy per ion but not as fast.

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Over a mile in diameter!

WOW! :eek:

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In article <[email hidden]>,
"Unitik908" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

DUDE thats like the place in angels and demons... what a cool place to
work...

i truly count my blessings every day i'm there.
..max

In article <[email hidden]>,

halfbike said:

I have seven words for you. "get a coker, um, get a coker."

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you and Tom Blackwood... in fact a coker is my goal, no question about
it.

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unidaddy said:

If I'm not mistaken, Waxahachee is the location of a failed attempt to
build the world's largest particle accellerator. I remember living in
Houston reading about the project failing to be finished due in part to
fire ants getting into and eating up sensitive utility conduit.....does
this sound familiar, BraveSirStupid?

good thing they killed it when they did, i was thisclose to going down
there. Now it's a giant hole filled with municipal refuse. :-(

..max

In article <[email hidden]>,

harper said:

Congrats on the four miler on a 20" which is quite a feat. It's nice to
see someone else riding on top of particle accelerators, too.

\
Thank you. I believe your accelerator requires a smidge more control
to ride on.... (which begs the question of who rode on Brookhaven's
TVG (tandem vandegraf)

Quoted message said:

The revs on a Coker would have been 36/20 or 1.8 (7.2 miles)

I rode again this evening, taking the Main Injector (the other big oval)
for a spin of about 2.5 miles plus a few hundred meters to get to my
starting point.

So here's the interesting part. I was wearing my shimano spd-clip shoes
by necessity instead of my squishy old New Balances. The shimano's
provided some kind of evening out of the stress on my foot -- i just
went and went and went------ until finished the day's cours -- ZERO
FAL^h^h^h UPD's over the whole 2.5 mile course. Largely because my
feet didn't feel like they were in their own private hibachi. I should
have taken heed the advice about Vans shoes given earlier.

I also experienced the worst case of "male numbness" i've ever
experienced, including 10 of K's on the road. I was rendered absolutely
100% insensate. I'm thinking of scooping out some foam in the
necessary part of my saddle.

My static mounts still bear directing your attention elsewhere, although
i did spend a while practicing before the 2.5 miler.

So i learned a couple of things today and got better at the same time.
Seems like a good day. :-)

unidaddy said:

*

HistoricalGoof:
Another off topic response. I'm going to be in Chautauqua, NY on the
16th of July (playing horn in the Mahler 7 concert). Wanna ride? *

I sent a message, but I believe the listed email address is wrong.
Write me at jmando(at)gmail.com

Justin

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moi said:

* I should
have taken heed the advice about Vans shoes given earlier.*

I picked up a pair of Vans Floyds today. They are so superior to my
blown out NB's. I esp. like the nice retroflective piping built into
them.

I am so hip now.

They worked well for me as i rode around Chicago's Logan Square this
hot and humid and perfect evening.

max

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Brave Sir Stupid said:

*who rode on Brookhaven's TVG *

Probably nobody, but I have ridden my big wheel on the road outside the
Brookhaven property's eastern wall.

Quoted message said:

*I also experienced the worst case of "male numbness" i've ever
experienced, including 10 of K's on the road. I was rendered
absolutely 100% insensate. I'm thinking of scooping out some foam in
the necessary part of my saddle.*

This comes from a long ride with your crotch in the same place and all
of your weight on it. Two things you can do besides make changes to the
seat:

1. Shift around on the saddle from time to time; cutting off the blood
flow in various places rather than just one set.

2. Get a handle or hold the front of the seat, and get used to putting
part of your weight on your hands (like on a bike).

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Good work. A Coker would have been great fun also, taking you half the
time.🙂

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