On December 4th, early Sunday morning, CBS News aired a segment by correspondent Susan Spencer documenting on video, her attempt to learn to ride a unicycle. She enlisted the assistance of Lisa Polinari alias The Unicycle Lady to aide in her endeavor to learn the basics of learning to ride. Check i t out.

The New York Unicycle  encourages and assists individuals to learn how to ride unicycle  regardless of age or gender.  The diversity of those that have over the year attended our meetings in terms of age, gender nationality, ethnicity and cultural background is astounding.  Meeting twice per month all year round, you have ample opportunity to come out and learn to ride.

In case you missed it the King Charles Troupe made an appearance on the Wendy Williams Show on November 11, 2011. At the end of the performance there was a special extra added bonus of Ziggy Cohen the youngest unicycle rider in the northeast putting on the show of riding across the stage and sinking a basket. Ziggy is the son of Adam and Renie Cohen of JustOneWheel.

For more than 40 years the King Charles Troupe has been successfully performing on unicycles  for audiences throughout the globe. There is a video currently being  put together documenting their  44 year history. The video will illustrate the King Charles Troupe’s journey from their humble beginnings in the borough of the Bronx, New York City to their travels throughout the United States as well as 14  countries throughout the world. They have truly been global ambassadors for unicycling that have inspired several generations to learn to ride the unicycle. Check out the documentary trailer.

A new up coming video soon to be release on DVD  called Unicycling is not a crime features 36 different unicycle riders of 12 nationalities.  Parts of this video was recorded in 1o different countries. Two NYUC members can be spotted at the beginning of this video trailer.

After having made the George Washington bridge the 200th bridge crossed since beginning their quest to cross every bridge in New York on a unicycle, the Unicycle New York City Bridge Tour group stopped by the New York Unicycle Club’s 3rd Saturday meeting in May at Grant’s Tomb. We had turn out of 15 club unicyclist welcome the weary unicyclist who rode down from the GW bridge crossing several other overpasses along the way. You can follow their continuous progress of bridge and overpass crossings on their website. Click on the photo above to check out the slideshow with all of the photographs taken in May of 2011.

Kyle Petersen’s interview on the Colbert Report aired on April 13, 2011. It features many clips that were taken at the New York Unicycle Club’s (NYUC) special meeting that was scheduled just to allow the camera crew access to a diverse variety of  NYUC members.

You can check out the background on Kyle’s story and the special NYUC meeting in this earlier post.

With over 1000 photographs that were taken at regular New York  Unicycle Club meetings it was quite  difficult to choose just 150 to be included in the Best of 2010 album.  It was even more difficult was to choose just a single photograph to represent the entire year’s worth of images.

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Ironically with all that great unicycling images that I was able to capture throughout 2010, I chose this photo of Tysen practicing his stand up wheel walking skills at one of the December 2010 meetings.

Though it could be argued that I should have included them, I decided to excluded the 247 photographs  that were taken at this year’s Unicycle Festival. Many of those images were captured at our first Sunday of September meeting that was made a part of this past year’s festival.

I attempted to include a variety of club of members who have attended meetings throughout the year. Amongst the photographs are many of the club members who have just learned to ride unicycle during 2010 by attending club meetings. Check out and enjoy the Best of 2010 slideshow and decide which ones are your favorites. I encourage you to come out to our 2011 club meetings and get an image of yourself captured on our Flickr site.

After a purchase glitch, the Flickr site reverted to a free account for the last few weeks. The free account unfortunately only shows a portion of the content that is held on the site. I have resolved the issues with Flickr. Now that things are back in proper order, you have full access to all of the photographs taken for the last couple of years including the photographs from the last two well attended meetings that took place this month. The November meeting’s photograph are now available in this Slideshow.

Troy  Wharton from Realscape Media stopped by a recent New York Unicycle Club meeting to shoot some video and conduct a few interviews of club members.  The result is this nice two and a half minute video from Troy’s Youtube.com Reelscaper page. It is a brief visual description of what goes on at typical meeting of the New York Unicycle Club. The NYUC meets twice per month all year round.  The first Sunday and the third Saturday of any given month are our regular meetings. On those days expect to see unicyclist riding around in front of Grants’ Tomb.  Visit our Meetings page for more information and directions.

In Unison is a  short documentary film detailing the sport of extreme unicycling. The film gives a historic depiction of the unicycle and highlights evolution of the sport of unicycling to show the many facets of the sport as it exists today.

The film was produced by Joseph Neigh pictured above. Joseph is a filmmaker and unicyclist from Northern Virginia. He has produced this film as part of his senior thesis while attending George Mason University. The documentary film debuted at the NYC 2010 Unicycle Festival that took place on Governors Island in September.  Some of the clips within the film were filmed at NYUC meetings.

This (above) is the 38 second trailer for the film.  If you are ready for more, you can watch the entire 21 minute film on The Internet Movie Database website, IMDb.com,  Just follow this link for the full version of In Unison.