Uni – The Unicycle Magazine now has their own website up and running. Here is what they have to say about it: After months of development here it is!  Our searchable website has the most comprehensive unicycle events calendar in the world and you can submit photographs to win DVDs! Of course you can find out more about Uni -The Unicycle Magazine and buy subscriptions, copies and merchandise…

The photograph above represents issue 11 which is the latest issue available as of this posting. For Facebook members, Uni magazine also has a Facebook fan page. I have added the link for the Uni magazine website to our Resources page which is one of the most comprehensive page of unicycle links to be found on the internet.

How’s the weather looking for an upcoming meeting?

Just click on the “Calendar” link above! 4-day weather forecasts are now built into the club calendar. I also added holidays.

(Update: Strangely, when viewing the calendar on Mac, the weather forecasts seem to show up in Safari but not Firefox.)

Over the last few weeks a huge amount of  new content has been added to this website. We now have a tremendous amount of links on the Resources page. A page that has been under constructions since the beginning of the year.

The above image depicts a sample of the sites that can be found on the Resource page. Just below are the categories of links that you will find on the page. Website links are accompanied by descriptions of what can be found at each site.  Though many of the links on this page can be found in the right side bar.  There is far more content on the page than we can fit in the sidebar. Sidebar link categories have been enhanced with a link to take you to similar content on the Resources page. If you have any additional  links you feel would be appropriate  for any of these categories let me know.

• Grant’s Tomb Informational Websites
• Links For Learning To Ride
• NYUC Links
• NYUC Members & Friends
• Unicycle Community
• Other Unicycle Clubs
• Sell & Buy Unicycles and Accessories
• Unicycling Technical Information

But wait there’s more!

We now have 2 brand new pages on the site designed to assist both novice and seasoned unicyclist alike.

First, for those considering becoming a unicyclist or just maybe curious about unicycling  we  now have FAQs page.  This Frequently Asked Questions page features a bunch of answers to legitimate questions most well traveled unicyclist have been asked at some point along their unicycling journeys. David and I collaborated to come up with the answers. I considered adding a section of joke questions that many of us have heard while riding around town however, I decided it would be a bad idea to encourage such questions.

Second, for those of us blessed with owning one or more unicycles we now have a Unicare page. On this page are tips and guidelines  for caring for your one wheeled vehicle. We have  included recommendations for accessories to assist you in keeping your unicycle in good working order.

We will continue develop content for these web pages in the future.  I have basically been editing pages almost on a daily basis lately. I have added this new logo at the bottom of most of our pages. Clicking on that logo brings you back to the home page.

Come back and visit to see what we have been up to.

Through a targeted advertisement on Facebook I have been made aware of the Cafe Press website. They have a significant amount of unicycle themed clothing and other merchandise.  If you are looking for clothing, stickers or something for the car or home that promotes the sport of unicycling check them out.  We now have a permanent link to the Cafe Press website. in the Sell and Buy section of  the NYUC home page.

New York Unicycle Club now has a Twitter account. You can follow it as @NewYorkUnicycle. Also, if you look to the right side of our regular web page here, you’ll see the club twitter feed.

If you’d like to write tweets on this feed, please contact David, Ken or Mitch to get the login information.

With content frequently being added to our website, I would like to provide a tip that some may find useful for keeping abreast of our various web activities.

Many of us use Google for searching on the internet. But, have you considered personalizing the Google search page using iGoogle?

Using iGoogle you can create a customized tabbed Google homepage.  You customize the page by adding web gadgets and RSS feeds. Web gadgets are small web applications that can be programed to perform a number of things. Some can display weather forcasts and radar maps, monitor your email or, be a game like Bejeweled.  These gadgets are primarily used to pull information from sites on the internet and bring them in a compact version to your customized iGoogle page. RSS feeds are summarized news feeds published by a website.

The example below depicts the iGoogle tab on my page that I created to monitor NYUC web activities. From right to left it displays the first few  images from our Flickr photostream, videos from our YouTube channel. and the RSS feed from the NYUC website.

iGoogle Example

Netvibes is another popular website that provides services similar to iGoogle. Netvibes has gadgets that provide many of the same functions as those found on iGoogle.  Netvibes forte however, is to pull together RSS feeds.  With Netvibes you can also share your feeds with others by creating a public page for yourself.

Displayed below is my Netvibes  NYUC tab that is monitoring the same content as the iGoogle page above. As you can see, the Netvibes gadgets work a little differently.

Netvibes Example

For those of you that happened to be members of  Facebook there are gadgets in each of these pages for accessing Facebook. In fact the official Facebook iGoogle gadget, when maximized looks like you are using Facebook directly.

If you are on Facebook you are welcome to join New York Unicycle Club Facebook group.

On our facebook group page I have posted a couple of interesting unicycling questions. Stop by the group page and post your answer.

From here on the website,  Facebook members can always click on the “Our Facebook Page” link on the right sidebar to go directly to our group page on Facebook.

In our Facebook group we encourage every member to participate by contributing their own content. If you sign up and visit, remember that you are a unicycling performer not a spectator.  So, don’t hesitate to post your own feedback, your own links,  photos or, videos about anything related to unicycling on our group page. It is all for fun.

For those of you that happen to be a member on Facebook that would like to keep up with the group or would like to just post a unicycling photo, video or, comment. Check out the Unatics on Facebook. We now have a group there. New York Unicycle Club. Join the group and leave us a friendly post.

I just updated the club calendar to include all upcoming regularly scheduled meetings through the end of 2009. If you have other events, or special rides, that you want listed on the calendar, contact David Stone. I just set him up with permissions to add events, edit the calendar, etc.

…Snow melting, and finally some dry streets in NYC today, a great day for a ride!

I started wondering today… How many other unicycle clubs are out there? So I did a little research and found quite a few. My latest list is on the right side of this page under “Other Clubs”. Surf through their links to see what these other clubs are up to, and if you’re a member of a club not listed here, please email us!