Archive for the 'Unicycling' Category

Some old footage from a few years ago.

Screen shot from Final Cut Pro of a video I’m working on. Some really old footage! But cool….

John Foss

Rob Bowman got a cool picture of me on the recumbent unicycle. Thanks Rob!

My socks, standing on the wheel looking down:

In front of Lombert St:

Good picture for Sept 11th (the day of the unicycle ride):

“Ride the Lobster” unicycle socks on Nathan:

The whole gang:

Rob:

The Golden Gate bridge:

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Me thinking about riding it. If it was a 20″ wheel I would try it..

View while crossing the bridge at 8mph:

There was a small group of riders that did this years Unicycle Tour of San Francisco.

Gary organized the ride and produced some awesome jerseys:

…and also some energy bars! (UTSF = Unicycle Tour San Francisco).

Here’s a short recap of the ride, as seen on the back of the jersey:

Jim cruising on the geared 24:

One of the few pictures of me…mainly because I was taking too many pictures! Grace said I was very color coordinated that day.

At Coit Tower:

Back to the Embarcadaro:

Ashley; the only girl unicyclist this time:

Aaron:

Jim on the Golden Gate

Aaron and Mike

Yesterday I drove a 6 hour round trip drive to do a unicycle criterium (crit) race in Auburn, CA. It was the first time I’ve had to pump gas in several months, but it was worth it!

The Auburn Journal did a nice write up and took this cool picture of us starting:

From left to right: me (Corbin Dunn), Stephen, Tom Holub, Nathan Hoover, John Foss, Robert, Wiley, Jim and Austin (the last three are sort of hidden in the back).

There is also a thread on the unicyclist forums about it.

I got first, which was cool, but I also really enjoyed the race. It was the third crit I have done; the first was during “Ride the Lobster” a few years ago in Canada. The second was last year at UGames in San Francisco. Both of those crits were on flat ground around a block and just making right turns. This one in Auburn was a blast because it had an uphill, a flat section, a steep downhill into a left turn, and the usual right turns. It was nice to have the variety and I really enjoyed it.

Robert Allen’s daughter also snapped a picture of me cruising by on one of the laps:

Afterwards, we did a 10 mile “coker muni” ride that really wore me out. I’m somewhat out of shape for sustained distance riding, and the hills tired me out. But it was really fun blasting down the single track in high gear.

The next event coming up is Strawberry Fields Forever — a casual rode rode of 100km. I hope I’m in shape enough to do it….after the 13 miles of riding yesterday (10 + the 3 mile crit), I was dying.

I recently spent some time powder coating some of my unicycles. Here’s my Kris Holm 26″ Mountain Unicycle with a Schlumpf geared hub, 2.3″ tire, and the KH handlebar:

I powder coated the frame translucent purple, which first required a base of mock chrome:

The pedals I also did metallic red, taking the bearings out before baking them.

The spokes are also done; I taped them to a piece of aluminum that I cut out:

and then clamped it to another piece of aluminum with a few c-clamps and wired them (at an angle) to the oven rack. This allowed me to suspend them in the air to shoot the powder onto them, and also protect the threads. Bronson gave me the idea to use some type of clamp; my original idea was to tap about 10 holes in a piece of aluminum and thread them in; however, it would have taken forever to do the tapping (plus, I don’t have the right spoke tap).

Sparkly metallic red:

I also used metallic red over the black rim, and it turned out pretty cool:

Louise’s frame looks even better; a chrome metallic base, then a candy orange on top, and finally the metallic red on top: