Screaming Skulls

From left to right: Gerry, Nathaniel, Kevin, Steven, and Matt who looks longingly at my beautiful, intact, unicycle.

Matt cracked his custom solid aluminum seat-post. It weighed around a pound.

Nathaniel did an incredibly sketchy skid down a bowl drop, congrats for sticking it!
Remember that there is also a Saturday indoor freestyle ride every week, so come on out to that as well.

Daniel

Moose has many really technical and nasty single tracks. It was snowy at the top with a horrendous wind. I had to stop many times to warm up my hands in my arm pits. The trail was steep, snowy at the top and muddy at the bottom.

We did the same trail twice. My legs were absolutely mush at the finish.

Matt was pretty happy when we finally reached the bottom!

Hellooooooooo……….

A sick grind Matt nailed. With the toothiest pedals I’ve ever seen too!

An awesome ride, see you next week.

From left to right:
My awesome KH24, Kevin, Matt, Pascal, Nathaniel.

A good turnout! I met two new riders, Kevin and Nathaniel. Kevin nailed an upwards handrail on the fourth try, no problem. Nathaniel got his brand new nimbus trials from Pete at Unicycle.com and was breaking it in. Come on out if you’re reading this!

Next ride (12th) is canceled for the holidays.

F-ing sick, Mike Parenteau. Finally some Muni worth posting. I heard about this a couple of weeks ago…… I think I speak for us all when I say “we want to see more”.

with Justin Kohse

So, the “What’s your take on…” feature, will be short one question interviews, with riders that most of us know or should know by now, enjoy.

I threw the first one at Justin Kohse, and it’s his take on art in unicycling…

“Well i started unicycling about 8 years ago…holy i didn’t realize its been that long!, but if it wasn’t for unicycling then i definitely wouldn’t have moved in the direction of motion graphics and

graphic design. I think it was when i got my first camera that had video recording capabilities that made me think hmmmm, i like this video business. My parents saw this and bought me a

video camera, the camera and my mother being an artist both sent me to VFS (vancouver film school), to pursue some type of career in this field.

We do something really unique here and we need to take advantage of it!  i don’t see why we need to copy skateboarding and biking. We’re our own thing, so we should be designing things in our own way. I think this is what a lot of the older riders are worried about and i know i don’t want to see us get washed out under the shadow of these super giants of the “extreme” sports world, but with company’s like UDC not  taking into consideration what riders are looking for in unicycle design, logos, stickers, tshirts, posters. etc…then this very well may happen. Koxx-one is taking a good step towards it with the manor in which they choose to market themselves ,which is why i think they’ve been able to stick around for so long and with people taking the time to learn a decent editing program and filming with half decent cameras then i think we have a solid starting point for the future.

As for riding style, I feel like unicycling is just starting to become more “stylish”. I see kids around 15 years old busting trey-flips down 5 sets and they’ve only been riding for maybe a year or 2?

with the recent advancement in equipment its so easy these days to get those unicycle fundamentals down and start working on your “style”, and style plays an important part on where

we will see unicycling go in the next couple of years. Its going to take all of us to chip in and help this sport grow, let your opinion be heard and don’t be afraid to throw your work around the web you never

know who might see it….”

–
Justin Kohse

www.justinkohse.com
www.jkohse.blogspot.com

Thanks Justin. Keep it up, man. One of the few that see a future if we help it grow.

Picture by Justin

Can’t wait, guys.

Time to post one of my own. This video was finished 3 months ago, and was started about 6. Guess its time for something new from Uneed Films…

…Just waiting for the inspiration.

I am stoked to see that this video comes up as one of the top videos, every now and then, under the “extreme sports” category on Vimeo. So I figured I would post it here to help keep the exposure alive.

This video reminds me of how badly I need to be getting back to Boston.

-Sam

Loïc put up a new Keukly team edit, and damn, what else can I say… crazy stuff. Owning ever minute of this one.. continuing to break grounds.

New video by KH rider Christian Huriwai.