Notices by Velocipede Rider (ruari@velocipederider.com)

"Explain me one more time. When they kill it's a crime. When you kill it is justice."

From the King's of Convenience song, Rule My World.

And so it begins… [well pre-begins, I'm not going to ride the unicycle while I'm on the train].

#UnicycleLife

In my head, Gemma Hayes's song 'Ran for Miles' is already playing.

[It feels on topic, even though, clearly… I'm not 'running' anywhere today. 😂 But still, it's a nice reminder of why I do these stupid things. ]

https://youtu.be/ixQ7I1ZP6yo

If anyone wants to see how I'm doing (having a break right now so I can post this).

https://www.strava.com/beacon/EIJYXmaUcDq

Skipped a bit when I forgot to unpause.

#Unicycling 💯km in one day is now complete, so waiting for the train to head home.

I love this guy so much

https://www.reddit.com/r/indianbikes/comments/1j8lc43/lets_appreciate_the_bikes_prototype_too_this_boy/

@keithwilson A reason to use WhatsApp, Telegram, no OFC not. There never was.

But yes there is a reason to use things like Signal and Threema because I do not trust end-to-end-encryption for RCS messaging with Google and Apple behind the wheel.

@piprrr ah Brian, I chatted with him a few times back when I was on Twitter. In fact he even starting following me (ok, yes I followed him first).

@piprrr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unipiper

I'm up next to #Holmenkollen ski jump. The view is amazing.

Sorry that was a bit off to the side, here is a nice front on view.

I found an old picture from roughly the location of the first picture from this thread.

From now on this is my greeting when meeting new people,

"Hi my name is Ruari, you might have heard of me. I'm a pretty big deal! Have you ever been to unicycle.co.uk?"

I tried to explain to my children how famous I am but feel like they did not get it, which is wierd.

@tk That picture is from an international competition with riders from all over the world. I was representing Ireland… though, I was also part of "Team Norway" 🤣

@joel

This means I'm famous right? Like properly famous!!! 🤣

@joel I mean, I guess I am an international penny farthing racer. 🤔

I mean it says it right in my bio here in the fedi.

If the image looks familiar to my regular followers it's because I have posted it before here myself. Let's zoom up a bit on the rider at the back of that group of racers. Yep, that's me! 😂

The biggest unicycle supplier is unicycle.com (they also sell penny farthings). In Europe, their biggest store is unicycle.co.uk. I often buy parts from this one.

Today I head over to by a new tyre from one of my 36 inch wheeled unicycles and what do I see? Well right on the homepage near the top is an image of penny farthings being raced.