Welcome to Berkeley Unicycling!
We co-sponsor the Berkeley Juggling and Unicycling Festival. The 2008 festival is scheduled for October 10-12.
Check out the festival pages from 2005, 2006, and 2007 if you want to get an idea of what it's like.
The 2008 festival will probably be in mid-October.Feel free to join our regular meetings:
Where & When:
- Tuesday evenings, 7:00 PM, Strawberry Creek Park outdoor lighted basketball courts. (In Berkeley at Allston and West, west of Sacramento).
- Most weekends, mountain unicycle (MUni) or big wheel ride, usually meeting at 10:00 AM. Rides announced on our mailing list (see below).
- April through June, Ride The Lobster training ride series.
Ride The Lobster is a unique event; a sponsored, 5-day, 800km Tour de France-style stage relay race for teams of 3 unicycles, held in Nova Scotia, Canada this June. Berkeley is sending two teams, so we'll be in serious training mode up until June. There will be rides every weekend.
Tentative schedule (locations and dates subject to change):- Saturday, 4/5, "Mike's Death Ride": from Oakland, up over Shepherd Canyon, down Pinehurst into Canyon, and out to Mount Diablo. Up and down Diablo, ending at BART. 45ish miles.
- Saturday, 4/12, time trials. Riding up and down Tunnel Road and other nearby segments to set speed baselines.
- Sunday, 4/20, Geoff Faraghan's birthday ride, Canada Road. 50km of rolling terrain.
- Sunday, 5/18, Strawberry Fields Forever ride, Santa Cruz County, 25 mile, 100km and 100 mile options.
These rides will not be "no-drop" rides; people are in training, so they'll be going at their own pace and not necessarily waiting for stragglers. You should carry your own maps and be able to be self-sufficient. Most rides will have segments near BART which can be used to bail out if necessary.
Other rides will be added as these ones get done. Sign up on our mailing list if you're interested in joining us.
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Subscribe to our mailing list to receive announcements of future events, discussion of unicycle equipment, and coordination of weekend activities happens on the list.