Unicycle Count

Unicycles, like lovers, are mostly memorable, but after you reach ten or twelve, you lose count. I'm at a point in my life (let's hope it's for the rest of my life) where the number of lovers isn't going to increase any more. My unicycle count, however, has changed recently. It's time for a recount.

I sold one of my Super Trick Cycles to a kid in my club. Now I only have two of them! These are such rare items that none of them have surfaced for sale on eBay in the past year.

I bought a muni last year -- the most recent uni I've purchased, and I fixed up my trials uni (correction: Mike the Bike fixed it for me here in New Paltz). The trials was on loan for about six months and was pretty beaten up after that, but now it's sweet.

My kids haven't gotten any new unis, but I'll count theirs separately from now on because they're pretty serious riders. In other words, I no longer own their unicycles, really.

So here are the 16 cycles in my uni collection, in order of how often I ride them:

29" Schlumpf guni...
24" Freeride mountain unicycle (Kris Holm) with 3" Gazzalotti tire...
20" freestyle (United frame, carbon fiber Miyata seat)...
20" trials...
20" impossible wheel...
26" ultimate wheel, nylon sewn on the tire (courtesy of David Bagley) to reduce friction...
20" "Spin-Cycle" that has a rotating frame...
46" Godzilla (built by the same man as the Spin-Cycle)...
20" Schwinn 6' giraffe...
36" Coker -- poor thing, I used to ride it all the time! Now it languishes in the basement...
24" Torker...
Super Trick Cycle...
Another Super Trick Cycle...
24" racing uni (Qu-Ax). This one is actually meeting me at the 2007 NAUCC, having been forgotten (and picked up) at the 2006 NAUCC...
29" Semcycle (in a state of disrepair)...
24" ultimate wheel

Those are the odds. Here are the ends:

ENDS (missing something)
26" Semcycle (minus pedals, inner tube, seat post, and seat)
36" Coker, minus the frame

Interestingly, while I was writing this list, I suddenly had to run an errand that involved uni'ing back from town, 3.5 miles away. My wife had taken my car, and with it my guni, so I was forced to think fast -- and I grabbed that neglected Coker. A few puffs from a bike pump, and it was ready to go. It's always great to have a spare unicycle or two (or 15).