Facebook button Flickr button Youtube button

Induni 2009, The India Unicycle Tour

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

1000km across the roof of the World

Another epic journey completed by unicycle.  This time it’s Steve Colligan, a pretty well known unicyclist from the UK.  Steve has ridden 1100km, with 12,000m of climbing, and 15,000m of descent, from Lhasa in Tibet to Kathmandu in Nepal.  This gruelling challenge was to raise money for a charity in Nepal.

Read all about it on Steve’s Website: Unicycle Steve

The writeup and photos are on this RSU thread

Well done Steve!

Around the world by Skateboard

It’s ironic that one of the first updates on the new Adventure Unicyclist website is about something other than Adventure Unicycling. However, a friend of mine sent me a link to Rob Thomsons website:

14 Degrees off the Beaten Track

I had a quick look and found myself spending the best part of an hour browsing through some pretty cool pictures and stories of his 12,000km journey around the world….by Skateboard!

Maybe someone could convince him to ditch a few wheels.

Adventure Unicyclist…we’re back (kind of!)

Alright, for those of you who have been waiting for this, I’m slowly getting there. The original Adventure Unicyclist website was cranked out in MS Frontpage, without me really knowing what I was doing. But it seemed to work (even if I used Comic Sans Serif font!). It was taken down last year in preparation for a brand spanking new AU site, but due to various circumstances arising, that rather expensive project is permanently mothballed.

Adventureunicyclist.com was my personal website, but I’m turning it into a general website for MUni, Unicycle Touring and all things unicycling and adventure related. My personal website is now on www.kenlooi.net

In the meantime I’m going to throw everything I have into wordpress (because it’s quick and easy). In fact so easy I’ll probably keep AU on WordPress until I get around to redesigning the site proper. I will migrate most of the old AU site content onto here, and also add some articles and tutorials on Adventure Unicycling you might find useful and hopefully entertaining.

Check out our upcoming Induni Unicycle Tour in 2009

Ride on!

Ken Looi