Mark Lavis from Canberra does a unicycling road trip of the South Island, New Zealand after UNICON XV (The 15th Unicycle World Championships and Convention) held in Wellington earlier this year.
It’s a long video but shows some amazing scenery and good MUni action.
Mountain Unicycling South Island NZ. from Mark Lavis on Vimeo.
Good luck to all the riders heading to Mongolia for the Monguni Unicycle Tour. This is the first time this country has been traversed on one wheel…
http://monguni.adventureunicyclist.com
Ride safe and enjoy the ride!
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:
The long awaited Mongolia Unicycle Tour is finally going ahead. In August, up to 20 Unicyclists from around the world will be the first to ride through Mongolia.
Check out the Monguni Unicycle Tour website for details:
http://monguni.adventureunicyclist.com/
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!
The tour is well and truly in the Himalayas, with big mountains, long descents, and kids chasing and waving to us wherever we go. We’ve gone from the steamy lowlands to the tea plantations and leg numbing climbs as we ascended to over 2000m elevation. Today is a rest day in Kalimpong before heading into Sikkim state tomorrow.
Here a a few photos from the trip so far:
Geoff being chased by kids
Sweeping switchbacks
Jason entertains the kids
A local gets a helping hand
As many of you know, the next Adventure Unicyclist tour is in North Eastern India next year. We are still taking registrations for Induni, but it closes on 1 Jan 2009, and we have a maximum limit of 24 riders.
If you are interested in coming, please get in touch with us now and I’ll give you more information about the tour. More information and also rider profiles and unicycles are up on: www.induni.adventureunicyclist.com
Here is what Grasshopper Master, our tour leader has to say about Induni:
“Our tour takes us to the north east of India to a fantastically diverse region that
borders Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and China, each of them never more than 100
miles away. This diversity is reflected in both the landscape, which ranges from the
steaming plains near Bangladesh, to the world’s 3rd highest mountain,
Kanchenjunga, but it is also evident in the people and religions we’ll see. Bengali tea
pickers, Bhutanese religious sculptors, Nepali corn vendors and Tibetan prayer flags
are all to be found at this confluence of cultures.
All this contrast makes for plenty of legwork, and starting in the plains, we’ll work our
way up through to the foothills until we’re close enough to the snow-capped peaks of
Sikkim that it’ll feel like we can just reach out and touch them. ”
Hope to see you in India next year!
Ken Looi