Tagged with 'Roger'

Every now and then we like to go out and do something completely unrelated to unicycling! We decided to go to the driving range.. None of us can really play golf but we had lots of fun trying to hit the ball!

Nick - starting the day very enthusiastically at the driving range!

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Roger - wondering where his ball went..

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Paul - setting up his shot! He definitely hit the ball the furthest out of us all

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Rachael - happy just to be out!

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We played a little game to see who could get closest to the flag... Rachael won but as you can see none of us got very close to the flag!!!

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We really  enjoyed our day out at the driving range followed by an epic lunch at the pub..

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Finally... Thanks to the Boss Man for taking us all out.

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Roger's Unicycles are normally covered in lots of prototype parts! So this one is actually a little different, lots of standard production parts here.

Today we are taking a Look at Roger's 26" Disc Muni.

As usual we will start at the top and work our way down.  Perched on top of a Nimbus Aluminium Seatpost we have one of the first Nimbus Stadium saddles with the red highlights.A Red Nimbus Double bolt seatpost clamp is holding his seatpost securely to the beautiful 26" Impact Gravity frame. The Bengal Helix Disc brake with a 180mm rotor takes care of the braking. As with most 26" Muni's Roger has fitted the 3" Duro Wildlife Leopard tyre and has tried to save a little weight by using a Foss tube. The rest of his Muni is made up from an old Nimbus Dominator II rim and a Nimbus LT disc hub. To make this hub fit the frame Roger has swapped the standard 42mm bearings for the 32mm version.
Some well worn 150mm Venture II cranks and Nimbus metal DX pedals finish of this unicycle.

Specification

Saddle: Nimbus Stadium Saddle - Red
Seatpost: Nimbus 'Aluminium' Seatpost - (27.2)
Seatpost Clamp: Nimbus Double Bolt clamp - Red (31.8)
Frame: 26" Impact Gravity frame - White
Inner Tube: 26" Foss Tube
Tyre: Duro Wildlife Leopard Tyre - 26" x 3"
Spokes: 14gauge - Black (disc side) - Silver (non-disc side)
Rim: 26" Dominator II rim - Black
Hub: Nimbus LT ISIS Disc Hub - 36 Hole, Black with Green flanges (100mm)
Brake: Bengal Helix Disc brake - White
Cranks: Nimbus 'Venture2' ISIS Cranks - 150mm
Pedals: Nimbus Metal DX - Black

Came into work today to find Roger sat in the warehouse inside our new Unicycle.com tent with his sewing machine out.  He is working on our new stand that we are taking to Unicon.

Last night at the local cycle club hill climb I turned up on my Nimbus 36" Unicycle.  The course was 2.66km long going up 150m on Clay Bank near Stokesley.  The aim was not to come last!  Riders set off at 1 minute intervals.  By the top I was caught  by one bike and had the rider in front of me well in sight.

So time on the unicycle = 9:27, my best time on the racing bike = 8:04.  So conclusion is on this course was that I was faster on 2 wheels... but not by that much.  I also still beat over 12 bikes on the unicycle.

Penny Farthing rims have finally arrived from America, Roger has been drilling the 64 holes in them ready to be built into shinny new UDC Penny farthings

Roger is currently in Uzbekistan, on a UNi tour. He sent us a picture of how much money he has left, we got quite excited then look at the exchange rate :-(

While Roger is away at EUC & EJC we thought we should have a stand in Boss. The new Boss just arrived, seems a bit quiet!!

It's Wednesday morning and so far today we have eaten snowballs, teacakes, brunch bars and we havent yet had our "tea and biscuit" break...We are having a daft hat day too..

Nick!



Rach!



Rach, Nick, Paul



Paul (looking alot like Jenson button) & Roger



Nick and Rach in the ridiculously oversized hats Roger brought back from Taiwan (he brings us the best gifts)



Bannan Hat wins the best hat of the day award.

Roger stole my chair and we thought it was funny that his feet couldn't reach the floor.

Last night we had our Christmas party.  We went to TGI Fridays and caused riot!

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