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Joff’s World Penny Farthing Tour Reaches Honduras

For those of you following Joff Summerfields World Penny Farthing Tour will be interested to know that he has now ridden 8,220 miles (13,229 km). You can see some of the excellent photos and read about what Joff has been up to here. One of the stone heads in the ancient Mayan city of Copan […]

At last! 0800 phone numbers free to mobiles

For years the mobile providers have been screwing their customers when it comes to free phone numbers (0800 numbers) by charging them not only for the calls but charging them a premium for that call.  In reality they were getting paid twice since the 0800 host company was also paying for the call! At last Ofcom […]

100mile World Record attempt – 9 July 2015

On 9th July 2015 Sam and Roger are both attempting to break the long-standing world record for the fastest 100 miles on a unicycle. Roger is riding a 36″ ungeared unicycle and Sam is riding a 36″ Schlumpf geared unicycle.

Tyres

With the tyre being our only point of contact with the ground, and only one of them makes it a pretty necessary part of your unicycle.  So checking your tyres regularly to make sure they have no damage, uneven wear or just no grip cause you’ve been riding so much is quite important.  Alot of […]

Unicycle Touring in Skye

Why would you want to go cycle touring on a unicycle? This year has seen two organised group unicycle tours.  One to Nepal and one to Skye.  Both of these have been acclaimed a great success, but it does not really answer the question, why would anyone want to go touring on a unicycle when a bike […]

Horwich Unicycle Race 2015 – Results

The results of the Third National Unicycle Road Race 21st June 2015 at Horwich Festival of Racing are as follows. Male 1st Matthew Morris 2nd Roger Davis (Over 50 Champion)… 3rd Robert Day 4th Cameron Peacock 5th Mike Kenyon 6th Eddie Baxter Ladies 1st Lucy Cobb 2nd Helen Wickins 3rd Bobbie Byrne Under 16 1st […]

Where’s Ed Pratt ?

For those of you who don’t know, Ed Pratt is the young man from Somerset who is currently ridding his Unicycle around the world. He set off on the 14th March 2015 on his epic 18,000 mile round the world unicycle ride. Ed has recently completed his first continent and is now riding through Asia. […]