September 21st, 2011 at 10:09 pm (
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Aaron and Mike
September 11, 2011. San Francisco, California
May 2nd, 2011 at 7:47 pm (
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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.
September 22nd, 2010 at 10:15 pm (
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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:
