Jai Caorthann is planning to ride around Ireland to raise money for Special Olympics Ireland and Brain Tumour UK.
One Wheel One Island will start on 6th July 2011, and will take him 60 miles a day, for 21 days, to circumnavigate the whole island of Ireland. Give Jai your support, or if you’re in the area, go and meet up with him on the ride.
David Suede and Smanna Michelle Taylor from Adelaide have just embarked on a 3500km unicycle journey across Australia. They are riding from Darwin to Adelaide to raise money for Little Heroes Foundation. Give them your support or go and meet them if you happen to be on their route.
Check out their ride on the Unitramps Website
Happy New Year! Hope you saw in 2011 with some unicycling action already. If not, why not join us for a unicycle tour in an exotic location this year?
Our next Adventure Unicyclist tour will be through the mountains of Tibet in South-West China. We will be riding from Shangri-La, through various mountain passes to the famous Tiger-Leaping-Gorge above the Yangzi River. It will have some spectacular scenery and should get those unicycle legs working hard!
Let us know if you want to come on tour, we have 20 places available.
Check it out: Yunnanuni
Toni Penya is embarking on a 430km unicycle ride from Barcelona to Montpellier starting next week.
Why?
“Survive, have fun, meet people and expend as less as possible trying to survive out of the kindness of people in the road.”
Follow his adventures as he rides from the 9th-18th July:
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Yes, that crazy man who unicycled across India is at it again. Sid Rajan is riding across Australia as part of his honours thesis. Having just recently ridden across Tasmania as part of the Tasmania Unicycle Tour, Sid will be taking on the rest of Australia in a test of endurance.
“The aim of this research project is to arrive at a deeper understanding of the embodied experience of long distance cycle touring in relation to the space-time dimension of the experience.”
Sounds like an incredibly painful experiment to me! The tour will take place in June-July 2009. Folllow his journey here: 3 Oceans Unicycle Tour Website
Good luck Sid!
The Tasmania Unicycle Tour is underway with 7 unicyclists led by 14yr old Aubin Gill taking part.
Follow their epic 330km journey around Tasmania, from Launcheston to Hobart!
We’ve added a couple of articles on Adventure Unicyclist. Both are related to concepts which are slowly creeping into unicycling.
The first article is about setting up unicycles more like bicycles…particularly for road riding. The reasoning is that as unicyclists start riding faster and over longer distances, the most comfortable set-up is one refined over a century by our two wheeled cousins. There is already vigorous debate on the forums and many new designs coming forth. Read about it here: Road Unicycle Set-up and T7 Modification.
The other article is also something that we are starting to have to think more about, unicycle gearing. As technology improves, it becomes more difficult for beginners to figure out concepts like gearing when there are multiple factors involved. Klaas Bil, a unicyclist from Holland, has devised a way to think about unicycle gearing which I found quite interesting. Read about it here: Total Gear Ratio.
Upcoming articles: Packing a unicycle for travelling
Congratulations to Team Rollercoaster: Vince Lemay, Steve Relles, Roland Kays, Brad Stratton, and Perry Woodin, who are about to embark on an Adventure Unicycle ride across Panama, from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.
These riders are the winners of the inaugral Kris Holm Evolution of Balance award, given to the most difficult, creative, and remote mountain unicycling adventure annually.
Watch out for plenty of jungle unicycling action to follow!
Hi everyone,
This will be the last AU post for the year. Ok, there hasn’t been many, but we only got going again not long ago.
I hope Santa has been good to you all, and brought many unicycle parts to fill your Christmas stockings with. Failing that, get a copy of the latest Unicycle Magazine. There is a 2010 calender with a couple of photos from Adventure Unicyclist. What better way to plan out your unicycling year? Oh, and there’s an Ken Looi interview in there too 😉
I’m off on a ride, and to work of some of that excess Christmas pudding. Just think, if the fat guy learnt how to unicycle, the reindeer would have less to carry and there would be fewer carbon emissions.
Have a very Merry Christmas from all of us at Adventure Unicyclist!
See you again next year.
Ken and the AU team
