Unicyclists Attempt to Cross Every Bridge in NYC

There have been plenty of nasty (and entertaining) battles over bike lanes and bicyclists, but you never hear about unicyclists liberating bike lanes from toxic cars while dressed as clowns (despite that being a kind of reasonable image to picture). Well, one reason might be that they're too busy: one group of unicyclists has been occupied trying to cross the least-cycle friendly places in NYC, its 2,078 bridges.

The group started a blog last October to chart their progress crossing each bridge on unicycle. They started with the Williamsburg Bridge, and have crossed 50 so far. We can already here the ka-ching of the cash registers on their book deal. "A lot of people don't like bicyclists and bicycle politics, but everyone loves a unicycle...We even went down Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg where the Hasidic community rallied to have bike lanes removed, and they loved us there," group leader Rob Hickman told the Post. But despite all their hard pedaling, it's never enough: "The No. 1 question we get is, 'Do you also juggle?'"

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By Ben Yakas in News on April 5, 2010 6:18 PM

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robindustry

http://unicyclenycbridgetour.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-kosciuszko-to-have-unicycle-lane.html

cxb

FUN FACT:

most of you people just assume MEDIA writes these "cute" fluffy pieces as human interest stories.

(And media OMITS 99% of stories of scandals by the POWERFUL and very NAKED EMPERORS destroying our city.)

Yeah, it's just mere coincidence.

(If Bloombag was breaking laws to steal billions of your taxdollars, SURELY the media would report it, right?)

(Do you recall all the opposing viewpoints when Bush told us of the WMDs in Iraq? Neither do I. AGAIN: media was created for ONLY ONE REASON: to manipulate Public Opinion to facilitate the goals of the RICH INDUSTRIALISTS WHO OWN THE MEDIA.)

(Duh.)

cxb

HOW IS THIS EITHER MORE RELEVANT OR INTERESTING THAN ANY OF BLOOMBAG'S TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SCANDALS?

(Oh shit... let me guess... "Comment Held Pending Approval Of Blog Owner"...)

Gothamist likes criticizing others but not taking criticism?

Typical narrowminded humans.

[author dreams of going to a planet where humans Do Unto Others...]

Spirit of 76

I'm guessing they'll try to do the Verrazano next month during the Five Boro Bike Tour. Any other time would be disastrous since the city refuses to cede a bike lane or walkway on that bridge.

Keith S Nelson

Just for the record:

A couple of us juggle.

We have not the Kosciusko yet.

The ladies join us for the upstate bridges and I am not one for Yes.

cxb

Listen to "Heart Of The Sunrise" again or "Then" and tell me you don't LOVE Yes!

CR

Big surprise - there are no women in this group. I'm also willing to predict that almost all of these guys have every Yes and ELP album ever released.