Loving the Big Wheel

Not much to say except everything you’ve read about how great a 36″ wheel feels to ride is 110% true!

Festival of the Wheel

Last weekend Bike around the Bay, this weekend Festival of the Wheel! Could any unicycle rider resist an event celebrating the wheel? Not me!

Around the Bay in a Day

Wasn’t too keen on getting out of bed at 5.00am, but am glad I did! Along with over 16,000 cyclists and one other unicyclist I participated in the annual Around the Bay in a Day ride in Melbourne.

Magura HS33 Brakes and KH Spooner

To Brake or not to Brake I like the simplicity of unicycles, so it took some time to accept that complicating a simple machine by running brakes wouldn’t offend the gods of unicycling, or have a negative effect on my riding technique. It’s a unicycle right, you don’t need brakes, you brake with your legs!

KH36 Arrives

My KH36 arrived and wow, that is one big sucker of a wheel! I’ve been working on the Jump Mount on the KH29 with the, so the first thing to face up to was jump mounting the 36 – Tadaa!

Great Dividing Trail: Mt Franklin-Castlemaine

The Great Dividing Trail runs from Bacchus Marsh to Blackwood, to Daylesford (branching to Ballarat), to Castlemaine, to Bendigo – over 280km of trail mainly through forested areas. The GDT was initially envisioned as a walking trail but has now evolved into a multi use trail, including MTB and unicycles!

Sailors Falls to Glenlyon

We sold our beloved 1977 Kombi which I had to drop off at Sailors Falls. I took the 29″ with me and rode back to Glenlyon, ~31km through the Wombat Forest. It was my first long ride off road on the 29 with 125 cranks, and overall was great fun!

Lyonville Springs

Had a great ride on the 29 today – a ~27km loop from home to Lyonville Springs, through the Wombat Forest via Toris Road, Big Al Track, Swaby Lane and back via Loddon River Road, Kangaroo Creek Road. The ride time was just under three hours. It’s definitely time to swap down from 150 cranks […]