Moab MUnifest

[showard]

Greetings!

I drove home from Moab today since I'm working tomorrow. It's not a bad drive - about 6 1/2 hours. I've loaded the pictures my wife and I took (mosly the Slickrock Trail parking lot) in a nested gallery located here:

http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/showard

I should have taken more but there were a lot of folks there taking pictures so I know there will be many more pictures posted when everyone else gets home.

The weather was perfect yesterday for the Slickrock Trail ride - blue skies and 60 degrees!

Steve Howard

[teachndad]

Sure would like to see more photos of Dan Wilson's muni frame up close.

Does he have a website?


I just came across the participant list. Holy smokes! A whopping 68 riders!

[andrew_carter]

Thanks for posting the photos and video (which I'm currently downloading). I did a little search but couldn't find much information on the Moab Munifest. Could you please briefly describe it to me? Particularly the types of competitions?

Thanks,
Andrew

[showard]

Rod - I can't believe that I didn't take some pictures of Dan's MUni! I looked it over from one end to the other and he told me all about it - but no pictures. It's a highly tweaked mountain bike fork. He cuts off the dropouts, straightens the legs using a vice and torch, welds on bearing holders and finishes it with powdercoat. He "double fillet" brazed his personal frame which means that he brazed over the top of the original welds to give it a very smooth look where the tubes just flow into each other - beautiful. I don't know about a web site.

Andrew - The Moab MUnifest is organized by Rolf Thompson. He lives in Utah and spends spring break with his family in Moab. It's a get together for anyone who wants to show up and ride some slickrock. This is the third year (I think) that he's done it. Last year there were 10 riders - this year there were 68!

There was no official competition - what we had were "games" that Rolf came up with. There was: idling, riding between lines, downhill, uphill, trials, long jump and high jump. The "games" were done after the big Slickrock Trail ride and some of the guys were pretty well baked. I was the downhill race timer/judge and it was a blast! It wall all pretty low key and so much fun!

Steve Howard

[harper]

Thanks for the photos. Sorry you're back at work. Yuck! Tom Jackson and I rode the trails with Buster yesterday. I think Buster could have won the sidehop competition paws down at Moab. Hope you had a fantastic time.

[U-Turn]

Looks like a good time.... shucks.

[slugbath]

Very nice photos! It looks like a lot of fun in some beautiful weather!

Hey Andrew,

The Moab Munifest site is at:
http://www.moabmunifest.homestead.com/

- andrea

[ratherbekayaking]

5 hour drive for me. I'll post pics sooner or later.... but I have to go to work in an hour, sleep, unpack, and then think about posting pics. I'll let you know when mine are up; and no, they are not ALL Kris, I tried to get a little of everyone.

It was a fun weekend for sure. I'm looking forward to next year. When work gets around about how fun it was, everyone sees the pics and vids coming out of Moab, I bet we break 100 riders next year!

[andrew_carter]

That sounds like so much fun. I'm really looking forwards to UniNats here in Australia. The atmosphere there is apparently also really low key and friendly. Everyone's encouraged to compete in every event they can and I can't wait to meet heaps of other Australian unicyclists.

Thanks for the info and the link,
Andrew

[muddycycle]

Moab in the news: http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03302003/utah/43271.asp

[tholub]

I got a lot of great photos, but I especially wanted to be sure to get this one posted before anyone else--probably 10 people got the same shot. <http://csua.berkeley.edu/~tom/rideyikeoffcliff.jpg>. I think that's Karl Thompson, at the top of Porcupine Ridge on Sunday.

I have more photos that I'll put up somewhere when I sort through them.

Two words describing the weekend: "Wow," and "Ow". More details to come.

It should be noted that the aforementioned Steve Howard donated one of his beautiful frames as a prize for the competitions, and it was appropriately selected as first prize by Paco Hadley. Prior to
winning the prize, Paco had been riding slickrock on a stock Schwinn 24" uni.

What an unbelievable place, and an incredible group of people!
-Tom

[gbarnes]

Pics from my own Moab Munifest (one week before the real one) are up at:
http://community.webshots.com/user/gbarnes82_uni

How was Porcupine Rim? It looks like you all had better weather than I did (parts of Porcupine had 4 inches of snow on it the day I did it).

[muni_guy]

Well ... it was an amazing weekend! I wish it were a week long event. Here are my pictures ...
http://community.webshots.com/album/68325149LODCGy

Thank you Rolf!

Carl

In article <showard.l51gm@timelimit.unicyclist.com>,
showard <showard.l51gm@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
)
)Greetings!
)
)I drove home from Moab today since I'm working tomorrow. It's not a bad
)drive - about 6 1/2 hours. I've loaded the pictures my wife and I took
)(mosly the Slickrock Trail parking lot) in a nested gallery located
)here:
)
)http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/showard
)
)I should have taken more but there were a lot of folks there taking
)pictures so I know there will be many more pictures posted when everyone
)else gets home.
)
)The weather was perfect yesterday for the Slickrock Trail ride - blue
)skies and 60 degrees!

I got a lot of great photos, but I especially wanted to be sure to get
this one posted before anyone else--probably 10 people got the same
shot. <http://csua.berkeley.edu/~tom/rideyikeoffcliff.jpg>. I think
that's Karl Thompson, at the top of Porcupine Ridge on Sunday.

I have more photos that I'll put up somewhere when I sort through them.

Two words describing the weekend: "Wow," and "Ow". More details to come.

It should be noted that the aforementioned Steve Howard donated one of
his beautiful frames as a prize for the competitions, and it was
appropriately selected as first prize by Paco Hadley. Prior to
winning the prize, Paco had been riding slickrock on a stock Schwinn
24" uni.

What an unbelievable place, and an incredible group of people!
-Tom

[andrew_carter]

Two things...

I've just been looking through those photos (thanks a lot for posting them) and Moab's awsome! I've always wanted to go on a mountain biking trip there but now it's muni I want to do. It looks so free and open, and it looks like you could find goodl lines anywhere. I'll make it to the Munifest some day.

Secondly, did you guys meet a guy there riding a metallic orange Santa Cruz mountain bike? His name would've been Ben (or Benny, or Benjamin). He has recently moved back to America but was a member of the bike shop for quite a while. He sent the bike shop owners an email saying he met a whole bunch of unicyclists at Moab.

Andrew