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Awesome British Unicycling Weather Today!
Well, I woke up this morning and was met with glorious sunshine - it's been a miserable few weeks here in the UK and probably will be again after today. So I'm off out for a long day of messing about on the uni and trying to master my freemounting!
So "good riding" to my fellow UK riders who've been blessed with good weather today. See you on the other side!
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2009-11-07, 11:39 AM
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Scott, droped 5ft and landed it!
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yeah the weather is pretty dam good here too! I may have to rebuild the 20" and go for a spin on it... and then maybe some muni!
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2009-11-07, 04:23 PM
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Up until the moment I read this it was a lovely day out.
Then it started lashing down. Now it's raining horizontally. Typical.
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2009-11-07, 05:47 PM
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Scott, droped 5ft and landed it!
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oh, well now its typical weather again lol... unfortunatly i didnt go uniing... i got distracted and smeared filler all over the front of my car... theres always tomorrow i suppose
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2009-11-07, 06:12 PM
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Ah well, it's been a good 'un for me. Did a bit of uniing, managed to pull off a couple of freemounts which I've never managed before so I'm chuffed with that.
Still not raining here though... I hope it holds off long enough for fireworks! 
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2009-11-07, 07:18 PM
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Jeez the rain has been relentless here for days. I don't mind riding in the wet but the flippers seem to catch on the cranks and the snorkel restricts the breathing somewhat
Looks like I have a window of opportunity tomorrow pm but I'm not putting my aqualung away just yet...
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2009-11-07, 09:30 PM
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Did about 5 or 6 miles of Sherwood Forest. A carpet of wet golden leaves over a deep layer of squidgy mud, so far too many UPDs. Found some new bits I haven't explored before, and a couple of nice links between the bits I have explored. Clear blue skies, a slight chill, and all was right with the world.
As usual, I twice used the red route ("difficult: experienced cyclists only") as a shortcut, and met no bikes on it. Plenty of them on the "yeller brick" though. Formulating a law - Wilkinson's Law: "A cyclist's sense of adventure is inversely proportional to the number of gears on his bike."
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2009-11-07, 10:40 PM
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I actually find the main problem with riding in the rain is my feet slipping off the pedals - cheap plastic pedals and skate shoes don't help (they're fine in the dry though). Haven't tried any muni-type stuff yet (flat grass is the furthest I've been off road so far) but Sherwood Forest sounds like a cool place to do it...
It's only up the road from me too. Hmmm... 
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Get some with grip. They are your two main points of contact with the machine. You will notice the difference immediately. For £15 to £20 you can get some basic pinned platforms from any bike shop.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I converted someone else to the cause... A friend of mine saw a video I made of me unicycling on Facebook a few weeks back and decided he wanted to get into it, he had a go on mine today and I gave him a few pointers towards learning and now he's sold on the idea.
Another unicyclist is born! 
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2009-11-08, 12:23 PM
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I was right, it does get easier!
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Mike's right, as always
 pedals make a huge difference. When my other half was struggling with keeping her feet on the pedals of her MTB I managed to buy some cheap pinned pedals from Decathlon (http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/east-midlands-11840155/). From memory they weren't much more than a fiver a pair. If you can get to Decathlon they're well worth a try. Wouldn't expect them to last forever though.
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2009-11-08, 12:28 PM
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Ryan dropped 4feet and landed it :D
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im off to do some trials seen as the rain has stopped over night
hopefully it wont be too slippery
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2009-11-09, 08:39 AM
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I was right, it does get easier!
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Isn't sharing a bag of crisps and a can of pop enough for any girl? Being the gentleman I am I did let her pick the flavours...
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Wanting to hop, drop and do fiddly stuff! (Blatantly plagarised from Mikefule) "Natural logs are what you ride on a Mun'e'." - kevinalexandersmith (Thanks to Harper) So are imaginary logs what you ride on a Mun"i" ? Last edited by Gadge; 2009-11-09 at 08:40 AM. |
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