Posted in Uncategorized on 29 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Good Times Weekly of California reports on Kevin Chang’s progress on his unicycle.
Having mastered the steep hills around his home town of Ben Lomond and having developed superior balancing skills that took 1 1/2 years to accomplish, Kevin now feels he has an edge over other riders competing in Ride The Lobster — the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 25 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday night the 21st of June, Garnet Rogers will be playing at the Masonic Hall in the centre of Baddeck. He’s one of Canada’s foremost folk musicians.
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Born in Ontario to parents of Nova Scotian descent, and younger brother of the late (and more famous) Stan Rogers, for whom he wrote [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 25 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Teresa Graham, staff writer with the Albany, New York, Times Union, followed Steve Relles, Perry Woodin and Roland Kays, as they prepared for the 800km 5-day unicycle event, Ride The Lobster. Times Union photographer, Michael P. Farrell, captured the excitement of these three with a couple of photographs. Relles and Kays will join Montréaler Vince [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 6 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
“I knew my wife, a veterinary nurse, would take care of me if I acted like a wounded animal”, so writes Kyle deMilner after taking a spill on Day 1 of his qualifying unicycle ride for Ride The Lobster at Valley Forge.
But he made it, despite the added pain of steep grades, some head winds, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 5 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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The Town of Annapolis Royal and area is celebrating what may become the largest long distance unicycling event in the world, Ride The Lobster, on Saturday 14th June 2008, two days before race week. Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, asks to be your host for the day.
The community festivities are for teams, family, friends and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 4 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the high Arctic lies a small barren rocky outcrop called Hans Island. It lies between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Denmark’s Greenland. The governments of both Canada and Denmark claim sovereignty over Hans Island; an island that has, over the past few years, been subject to “footprint visits”, flag waving and planting, flyovers, “excercises” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 3 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Word is out that “the Wayne Gretzky of unicycling”, Vancouver’s Kris Holm, and the CEO of Switzerland’s Schlumpf Innovations gmbh, Florian Schlumpf, are both planning to attend the 800km 5-day unicycle event in Nova Scotia, Canada.
While Kris Holm will not be able to race due to knee injury, he will act as the ambassador [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 1 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apeldoorn TV in the Netherlands recently posted this video clip from Dustin Schaap as seen on: vimeo.com (download 10 MB)
English text translation to accompany this video clip, courtesy Elisabeth Kosters:
These 2 kids Dustin and Sander (Dutch short for Alexander) are interviewed while they are doing their training runThe interviewer asks how they got into [...]
