I Saw The Coolest Thing On My Training Ride!

[wildhawk]

DH is now working third shift, so that leaves me and my bike to train on our own during the daytime. I rode over to our local park and was halfway through my 20 mile ride when I heard soft guitar. I thought it must be some jogger with their headphones turned up too loud, but when I rounded a corner in the trail I saw a guy riding a unicycle and playing a guitar! I asked if I could “tag along” for a while and he played me several songs. Brightened my day, but I felt bad that I did not have my digital with me to get his picture to show you. Unicycles look so hard to ride and as a guitar player, I cannot imagine the balancing he was able to do! You never know what you will see on a trail!!

[Grog]

That guy must have core muscles made of steel.

That's a sight I'd like to see on my rides!

[salsabike]

Wow. how fabulous!

[wildhawk]

I will try and get a picture of him if he comes back on Wednesday - he said he also rides on one of my other favorite trails, so chances are good I will see him again. I am still floored over that - it is all I can do to manage my two-wheeled bike!

[OakLeaf]

I'm getting images of Arlo Guthrie's "Motorcycle Song."

Only on one wheel. Yikes! :D

[sundial]

That is WAY cool! How lucky for you to have found him. :cool:

[Grits]

That is cool! There was a unicycle rider at the MS 150 last week. I would love to know how far he rode.

[Biciclista]

a famous unicyclist (and some friends also on Unicycles) has done the Seattle to Portland Ride (two centurys!, as in 100 miles two days in a row)
several times.
He's slow, but he gets there!

[sundial]

Oh my gosh, that's crazy!

[Aggie_Ama]

My husband and I were hiking the Barton Creek Greenbelt one day and saw a guy mountain biking on his unicycle. This greenbelt is often a hardcore rock garden and that is one of the spots we saw him. It was the craziest thing I have ever seen. I was in awe, horrified and bewildered. :eek:

[arielmoon]

How cool is that???

Thanks for sharing!

[TrekTheKaty]

Awesome! Not nearly as good a story--but we had a bagpiper (?) that practiced in the mornings along our loop in full garb. Haven't seen him in awhile though.

[GLC1968]

That is very cool! We had a guy on a super tall (what do they call those? where they are way up in the air?) unicycle on our last MS150. He did the full century on day one.

When I was a kid, one of the neighbors was a great banjo player. He used to sit on his front porch or walk around the neighborhood playing in the afternoons/evenings. I loved riding bikes to banjo music!

[Susan126]

What a special ride that was! :)

[Aggie_Ama]

Let us know if you see the serenading unicyclist again. Not quite as cool but there is a man who sits along the Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail in Austin playing his guitar. This is one of the main running trails in town so a lot of people get to enjoy his music. I think he is a struggling musician, not sure. My local trail just has the pop warner Cheerleaders, youth games and an once in a blue moon a whistle from the Volunteer Fire Men. I think a guitaring unicyclist would be way more fun. :rolleyes:

[beccaB]

I saw on the ast dew tour on a sports channel , that there is such a thing as competitive mountain unicycling. That's just nuts!

[kfergos]

a famous unicyclist (and some friends also on Unicycles) has done the Seattle to Portland Ride (two centurys!, as in 100 miles two days in a row)
several times.
He's slow, but he gets there!

On this last STP, I saw two guys on LONGBOARDS :eek:. Yes, those super-long skateboards. They were doing it; I passed them as they went really slowly up the hill around 40 miles on Day 1. They had special weird shoes that had each toe outlined specially. I saw them at the end, so they even made it.

I also saw this: http://darwintheslug.blogspot.com/