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Weird Commute

harper · 2005-05-27T04:38:23+00:00

I Coker commuted all week. There are two very steep, short hills on my way home. Years ago, when I tried them the first time, I biffed the first one and made the second one. The second time I ever tried them, I made the first one but biffed the second one. I have never missed either hill since in four years of commuting. In fact, I ride both hills with no hands on the saddle now. Today I biffed two thirds of the way up hill number one. As I walked the rest of the way up the hill (I didn't want to biff a steep, uphill dismount, too) I got to the top and did an easy rolling jump mount. Right after that, I saw Irene on campus going the opposite way on her Coker. Think of how weird that looked to people. Fortunately Irene didn't see me walking up the hill. With my new wheel I have been riding curbs at speed on my commute when a good, long stretch appears. I see how far I can ride a curb at 10mph on a Coker. Today, I got a bit frisky and took a faster approach to a curb cut. I launched and biffed it. I took it on the hands and feet with a no slide landing and saved my knees. I got no rash or scratches on my hands. Later on, I came up to hill number two telling myself, "I'm not biffing this one," as I started my no hands climb. As I approached the top, I had to grab the handle and I was all over the road but I stayed up. It must have been all those broken unicycle parts I was packing home to photograph this evening that altered my balance. That or I SUCK!! -- harper - TANKED at GASWORKS -Greg Harper B L U E S H I F T "My world view has come crashing down like a drunk clown on a giraffe, riding through a cactus patch..." -evil-nick on "Entry of the Gladiators" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ harper's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/426 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/40722

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harper
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27 May 2005, 04:38 UTC #1

I Coker commuted all week. There are two very steep, short hills on my
way home. Years ago, when I tried them the first time, I biffed the
first one and made the second one. The second time I ever tried them, I
made the first one but biffed the second one. I have never missed either
hill since in four years of commuting. In fact, I ride both hills with
no hands on the saddle now.
Today I biffed two thirds of the way up hill number one. As I walked the
rest of the way up the hill (I didn't want to biff a steep, uphill
dismount, too) I got to the top and did an easy rolling jump mount.
Right after that, I saw Irene on campus going the opposite way on her
Coker. Think of how weird that looked to people. Fortunately Irene
didn't see me walking up the hill.
With my new wheel I have been riding curbs at speed on my commute when a
good, long stretch appears. I see how far I can ride a curb at 10mph on
a Coker. Today, I got a bit frisky and took a faster approach to a curb
cut. I launched and biffed it. I took it on the hands and feet with a no
slide landing and saved my knees. I got no rash or scratches on my
hands.
Later on, I came up to hill number two telling myself, "I'm not biffing
this one," as I started my no hands climb. As I approached the top, I
had to grab the handle and I was all over the road but I stayed up. It
must have been all those broken unicycle parts I was packing home to
photograph this evening that altered my balance. That or I SUCK!!
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harper - TANKED at GASWORKS
-Greg Harper
B L U E S H I F T
"My world view has come crashing down like a drunk clown on a giraffe,
riding through a cactus patch..." -evil-nick on "Entry of the
Gladiators"
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Unitik908
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27 May 2005, 04:43 UTC #2

i think you are just getting to old harper😉
Chase
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harper
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27 May 2005, 04:49 UTC #3

Unitik908 said:
*i think you are just getting to old harper😉
Chase *
Gotten, not getting. I'm already there...and beyond.
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riding through a cactus patch..." -evil-nick on "Entry of the
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tomblackwood
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27 May 2005, 05:59 UTC #4

harper said:
*That or I SUCK!! *
Hey, don't go jumping to any hasty conclusions now. I think an
independent audit is called for. Let's coker this weekend, and JC,
Irene, and I can evaluate your riding and let you know if it's true.
Since Irene's actually a Certified Evaluator, we'll give her two votes
to our one as long as she agrees with us.
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nathan
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27 May 2005, 16:02 UTC #5

Greg, you don't suck and you're certainly not old. I think I know what
happened to you on that commute though. It must've been a sequence of
unfortunately timed small bursts of extra gravity that got you. Glad you
handled the last one.
I had a burst of gravity last week preparing for the trip to Toronto.
Got the KH29 all setup and went to take it for a test ride. Stepped on
and was immediately on my back on the ground, dripping blood from my
shin. The sad part was that Beau saw it and laughed uncontrollably hard.
He said the funniest thing was how little time I was on the uni
(something under a millisecond). At least it was only one burst of
gravity though, not like your series. I found they're more likely to
occur when you've wearing wet sandals in the rain at night not thinking
about what you're doing.
Have fun,
Nathan
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leadpan
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27 May 2005, 16:21 UTC #6

'Burst of gravity'?
Is this some new Newton's theory that I don't know about?
I thought gravity was constant.
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harper
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27 May 2005, 16:23 UTC #7

nathan said:
*The sad part was that Beau saw it and laughed uncontrollably hard. He
said the funniest thing was how little time I was on the uni
(something under a millisecond). *
I think if you hold Beau underwater for 20 minutes or so it cures the
uncontrollable laughter part. I'll never forget him doing that stunt on
the Northshore trails that the rest of us wouldn't do and you scowling
and saying, "I was hoping he would be over twelve when he got better
than me."
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-Greg Harper
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riding through a cactus patch..." -evil-nick on "Entry of the
Gladiators"
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harper
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27 May 2005, 16:41 UTC #8

leadpan said:
*'Burst of gravity'?
Is this some new Newton's theory that I don't know about?
I thought gravity was constant. *
No. Undulating gravity wells exist in the vicinity of unicyclists
everywhere. They are particularly active when a rider is wearing no
protective gear whatsoever and is trying something "simple."
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nazghash
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27 May 2005, 17:10 UTC #9

Quoted message said:
No. Undulating gravity wells exist in the vicinity of unicyclists
everywhere. They are particularly active when a rider is wearing >no

protective gear whatsoever and is trying something "simple."
Or when there is a witness whom you'd rather not have see you screw
up...
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