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Largo

Sport climber

The Big Wide Open Face

Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 6, 2013 - 02:30pm PT

Was going through my old hard drive and came across some photos from around 2007 when I was super involved with downhill mountain unicycling (MUNI) with the crew up at Santa Barbara, which at that time was the most active MUNI club on earth, with a ton of great trails silling down the big mountain just behind the town. "Tunnel Trail" in particular was a beast, expecially on a muni owing to the many tight turns, overall steepness of the crux secions, and massive rocks. We had to attemp Tunnel many times over several years before a couple of us finally got the red point, so to speak, and rode every inch of the thing. It still remains one of the most difficult adventure sport challenges I ever undertook. Damn, that was HARD.

Here's a few shots. Very fond memories, indeed. What a great group of folks we used to ride with!

Cole

Trad climber

los angeles

Jul 6, 2013 - 02:35pm PT

Absolutely nuts! I can't even ride one on flat ground, and not for lack of trying.

rottingjohnny

Sport climber

mammoth lakes ca

Jul 6, 2013 - 02:45pm PT

Looks like one sport you'd be better off without balls...?

pud

climber

Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia

Jul 6, 2013 - 03:30pm PT

Looks like one sport you'd be better off without balls...?

Quite the opposite, trust me.

snowhazed

Trad climber

Oaksterdam, CA

Jul 6, 2013 - 05:46pm PT

Absorbing a landing- it seems next to impossible not to impact your nuts or your taint. Or your legs don't compress and you take it straight to the spine. Am I wrong?

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Jul 6, 2013 - 06:29pm PT

Keep yer chest up, weight on yer pedals & - theoretically - ya don't get sacked. I don't ride but both my kids do.

Not only don't you ride, but you don't have balls. (At least, not as far as I could ever tell). So you have no idea what it's like to look at pictures like that. Any male who sees those shots and doesn't experience a panic moment is a eunuch.

ms55401

Trad climber

minneapolis, mn

Jul 6, 2013 - 06:39pm PT

looks like the fast route to impotency. How can that not abuse the spunk out of one's balls?

TwistedCrank

climber

Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho

Jul 6, 2013 - 06:50pm PT

How can that not abuse the spunk out of one's balls?

I suppose that may be a function of the initial size of one's balls.

goatboy smellz

climber

Nederland-GulfBreeze

Jul 6, 2013 - 08:09pm PT

How do you go uphill without gears?
Is this just another California downhill?

rincon

Trad climber

SoCal

Jul 6, 2013 - 08:19pm PT

Looks like a great way to get seriously hurt!
Gee, I wonder why it hasn't caught on?

TREED

Trad climber

Gunks

Jul 6, 2013 - 10:31pm PT

Do those things freewheel?

TGT

Social climber

So Cal

Jul 6, 2013 - 10:46pm PT

Looks like a great way to get seriously hurt!
Gee, I wonder why it hasn't caught on?

+++

Can you do the TDF on one?

MisterE

Social climber

Jul 6, 2013 - 11:15pm PT

That right there is a peak activity of balance and control.

Props.

Largo

Sport climber

The Big Wide Open Face

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2013 - 02:58pm PT

You gots bike shorts on under the board shorts so your junk is held out of the way. Also, if you look a the big drop shots you'll see I have the cranks locked off horzontally so when you impact, you absorb the shock on your feet and quads, not your minerals. Plus the seat is hard foam three inches thick. We've got it worked out.

JL

Batrock

Trad climber

Burbank

Jul 7, 2013 - 04:30pm PT

Radical dude! I used to run the 35 mile Ssnta Barbara 9 Trails race and I believe the Tunnel Trail was part of it. I miss those trails, they were hard enough to run, I can't imagine riding them on one stinking wheel.