Best pictures of 2017 for World Unicycling Calendar

[muni ben]

And here's something completely different: brake coasting down Fargo Street.

[turtle]

Originally Posted by candyapplecorn

DSC02893 is bonkers. That's all brake, right?

this is David Weichenberger, yes with a brake. Picture is taken by me, at our 6 day muni tour in the swiss alps!

[aspenmike]

1. First leg of a uni to skin to ski epic Independence Pass, Colorado 3,688 meters - 12,100' June 2017
2. Fall colors MUni Aspen, Co. September 2017
3. Handcuffs trail MUni Loma, Co. February 2017
4. Early season 36er ride, caught in a blizzard. Douglass Pass, Colorado 2,520meters,- 8268' April 2017

[aspenmike]

1. Haleakala with summit telescopes in view. uphill on road, down 2,134 meters,-7,000' MUni dirt Maui, Hi October 2017
2. Maroon Lake- Maroon Bells Aspen, Co. September 2017
3. Mt. Evans Hillclimb Summit Lake, 3,962 meters-13,000'
4. Mt. Evans Hillclimb Final switchbacks top of climb is 4,306 meters- 14,130' July 2017

[Klaas Bil]

The World Unicycling Calendar 2018 is ready, and available for anyone to download for free.

Sorry that it took longer than usual. The calendar is created in Excel and I had a big problem this year to convert to print-quality pdf. Finally I solved it.

Thanks all for the amazing contributions. I had a hard time again to choose the twelve pictures. Below is an impression of the final product on my wall. Also the 12 that made the final selection, and the 16 that were on my shortlist but just didn't make it.

The calendar is available as a free download, for anyone interested. Send me your email address through PM or to klaas.bil (at) unicyclist (dot) com, and I will send you a personal download link. It consists of a single pdf file, to be printed by yourself. I recommend glossy photo paper. It is optimised for the international standard A4 paper size, so Americans may have to fiddle somewhat with dimensions. Everything is in English now, including the month and weekday names that previously were in Dutch. The only remaining exotic touch, if you will, is that The Netherlands's Kings' Day on the 27th of April is marked as a holiday.
Please: no redistribution, no commercial use.

[johnfoss]

Looks amazing, as usual! So many great pictures to choose from, but I'm still kind of bummed I didn't make it even into the selects. I take that as a challenge to myself for 2018!

So... was there supposed to be a link in that previous post?

[bungeejoe]

Originally Posted by johnfoss

So... was there supposed to be a link in that previous post?

John, he gives us options, pm or email, choose one. I followed his directions and received my download link in an email within a few minutes.

JM

[Klaas Bil]

Originally Posted by johnfoss

I'm still kind of bummed I didn't make it even into the selects.

John, some of your pictures were on my longlist, if that helps

Originally Posted by bungeejoe

John, he gives us options, pm or email, choose one.

Indeed, I'd like to keep track where my calendar ends up. It's a thrill to know that it hangs on office and home walls throughout the world.

[Setonix]

Originally Posted by johnfoss

So many great pictures to choose from, but I'm still kind of bummed I didn't make it even into the selects. I take that as a challenge to myself for 2018!

You will have to make your own calendar with just your own pictures. It will be like looking in the mirror.

[Up Rite]

Thanks for creating this, looking forwward to recieving the link

[Klaas Bil]

Originally Posted by Klaas Bil

The calendar is available as a free download, for anyone interested. Send me your email address through PM or to klaas.bil (at) unicyclist (dot) com, and I will send you a personal download link.

Originally Posted by Up Rite

Thanks for creating this, looking forwward to recieving the link

So yeah, I need your email address in order to send a link.

[Siddhartha Valmont]

With so many nice pics, maybe we can start to make several variants of the 2019 calendar (Muni calendar, freestyle calendar, trial/street calendar, group rides calendar...)

[Klaas Bil]

Well, maybe "we" or "you" could. But I intend to keep making the World Unicycling Calendar.

[Siddhartha Valmont]

Originally Posted by Klaas Bil

Well, maybe "we" or "you" could. But I intend to keep making the World Unicycling Calendar.

I was not planning on stealing anyone's thunder especially with the great work you are doing every year to make THE calendar :P

I volunteer to help make variants focusing on one specific discipline out of the shortlist you gathered (I will start with the offroad edition for personal use ).

Let me know if you accept elves to assist you

[Klaas Bil]

@Siddhartha, lol I also started out with the calendar for personal (i.e. my personal) use, in 2011. A few years later, I started distributing to other people, and the numbers are still growing each year. For the 2018 edition, about 70 copies have been downloaded, and counting.

I recognise that the sport of unicycling has many subdisciplines and not everyone will be interested in all of them. In this forum, the emphasis is somewhat on offroad riding while others such as freestyle and street riders are largely elsewhere, e.g. on facebook. Indeed, most of the pictures from here are muni or xc. I feel however, that a broad selection of pictures is most appealing, so that's what I'll keep aiming for.

And thank you for suggesting yourself as an elf, but I can manage on my own. Oh well, with all the great contributors of pictures of course!
That said, feel free to make a personal calender with whatever theme you prefer!