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[Pete Hickey]

In article <[email protected]>, Kevan Smith </dev/null> wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:33:03 GMT, [email protected] (Pete Hickey) from
>Rarely. wrote:
>
>>In article <[email protected]>, Zoot Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
>>>things. I believe it.
>>
>>My kids picked it up in about 2 days. It took me a good week.
>
>So it's a center of mass thing? Keep it low?

No. It is more a thing of kids being able to pick up skills quicker than adults.
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[Tom Keats]

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Tom Keats) writes:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Zoot Katz <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
>> things. I believe it.
>
> Chris Holm makes it look soooo easy <g>

Here's a site that has some of those video clips I was talking about:

http://unicycleukcom.site.securepod.com/video.asp

They're freebie previews to some of his videos.

The clips are pretty big for downloading over a dialup connection, though.

cheers, Tom

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[Zoot Katz]

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:27:01 -0700, <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Tom
Keats) wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Tom Keats) writes:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Zoot Katz <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> It supposedly takes about two weeks of daily practice before one succeeds in even riding these
>>> things. I believe it.
>>
>> Chris Holm makes it look soooo easy <g>
>
>Here's a site that has some of those video clips I was talking about:
>
> http://unicycleukcom.site.securepod.com/video.asp
>
>They're freebie previews to some of his videos.
>
>The clips are pretty big for downloading over a dialup connection, though.
>
>
>cheers, Tom

Hmm, I wonder if he was one of the guys at the Brockton Point races when I was doing dino. The local
unicyle club was doing demonstrations in the parking lot. Some people there wanted pictures of a
dino on a unicycle so they held me up while somebody else snapped some shots.

I've transferred tons of stuff at 28.8, mostly while asleep.
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[Tom Keats]

In article <[email protected]>, Zoot Katz <[email protected]> writes:

> Hmm, I wonder if he was one of the guys at the Brockton Point races when I was doing dino.

Maybe. If so, you might've lost an opportunity to score an autograph or other priceless
memorabilium.

> The local unicyle club was doing demonstrations

There's a local unicycle club?!!? Kewl!

> in the parking lot. Some people there wanted pictures of a dino on a unicycle so they held me up
> while somebody else snapped some shots.

I used to chum around with a son of Polish immigrants who lived down the street from me; his kid
brother got a paper route and did it on a unicycle. He got a write-up and pic in the Vancouver Sun
about it. He could nonchalantly fling a rolled-up newspaper and bash in the mesh on your screen door
without even thinking about dismounting, and then pedal on to the next screen door victim, and do
the same. At least we knew when our newspapers arrived.

So, it's not only possible to ride a unicycle -- it's also possible to fling inside sliders from
one as well.

cheers, Tom

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[Zoot Katz]

Sun, 27 Jul 2003 03:45:51 -0700, <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Tom
Keats) wrote:

>> Hmm, I wonder if he was one of the guys at the Brockton Point races when I was doing dino.
>
>Maybe. If so, you might've lost an opportunity to score an autograph or other priceless
>memorabilium.

Yeah, it was confirmed by a friend at the Illuminare. A superstitious person might think it
coincidental that a unicycle came into my life 4 weeks after that incident.

Anyway, he's just one of hundreds of people that have posed with a dino. Last night was a hoot
at Trout Lake. Strange women complimenting my tail. Lots of little kids to terrorise. Fab
would love it.
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