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[edit]Hi, I noticed your addition of London Friend. You may be interested in thinking about how to improve the UK section of Gay Liberation Front which is rather short on detail about how the organization/association was interconnected with other organizations. Thanks, Fæ (talk) 13:09, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, yes, I'll take a look at that.FrankSier (talk) 19:03, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
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[edit]Ed Pratt World Unicycle Tour, YouTube playlist index
[edit]This playlist created in this format by FrankSier. Please feel free to copy for the purpose of editing Wikipedia. You may edit this copy: I think that would mainly be adding extra info. Please sign your changes with 4 tildes.
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1 Ed Pratt - Unicycling around the World
2 to lancaster
3 1 Setting off
4 2 France
5 3
6 4
7 Danube, Hungary
8 Baja
9 Sister joins
10 Thunderstorm
11 Regis Frenchy cycling Africa
12 Balkan mtns
13 snapping unic
14 magic biscuit
15 meeting Alexander
16 bake bread Azerbaijan
17 1 Caspian Barely catching
18 2 Exploring ship
19 this is Khazakhstan
20 almost hit
21 arrive Bishkek. START OF 6-MONTH BREAK IN TOUR.
22 travel light
23 snowboarding
24 snowboarding
25 frozen trees
26 tandeming Karakol. LAST OF 6-MONTH BREAK IN TOUR.
27 across Kaz. back on road
28 across Kaz. Dinosaurs
29 across Kaz. mozzies
30 across Kaz. mozzies again
31 across Kaz. police
32 across Kaz. film camels
33 across Kaz. 40mph winds. From an instagram: “This clip was shot soon after my winter break in Bishkek, so I’d recently taken the train back to Aktobe to reconnect my ride. ...Oh, and if you’re wondering, like these guys, why I mounted on the wrong side of the road, it’s simply because of the wind. It was howling in from the left, so on days like that I’d turn my back to it and use it to assist me up onto the unicycle. Then straighten up on the remaining width of tarmac once I was balanced.” https://www.instagram.com/p/B_UaX9KFPrI/
34 across Kaz. 2.5 bicycles
35 across Kaz. juggling
36 across Kaz. dog attack
37 across Kaz. blocked by police
38 across Kaz. pedalo
39 across Kaz. electric storm
40 across Kaz. how can drink it!
41 across Kaz. don’t pick up unic.
42 across Kaz. 'final’. See 127 below for more Kaz.
43 China smelly
44 China Enter
45 China dude magnet
46 China no bicycles!
47 China SWAT
48 China Daughter & dog
49 China saddle sores
50 China kicked out of town
51 China Edward’s bad idea
52 China only bread
53 China spelunking
54 China 45 hrs train
55 China parents
56 China Hong Kong
57 China superman
58 China monks basketball
59 China tTibetan new year
60 China self-filming, reality of
61 China inner tube bskt bll
62 China crashed truck
63 China dance on police cars
64 China buttock destroying
65 China police Segways
66 China leaving Super
67 China what doing here
68 China walk
69 China how motivate
70 China 210 km, 25hrs
71 China 21 yr old
72 1 SE Asia Hijacked camera
73 2 SE Asia refused Laos
74 3 SE Asia Skinny-dipping
75 4 SE Asia 6000ft mtns
76 5 SE Asia Wildfires
77 6 SE Asia Police escort
78 7 SE Asia Sister [again]
79 8 SE Asia water fight
80 9 SE Asia cocconut booze
81 10 SE Asia Meet the guy
82 1 Austr. 3000 mile
83 2 Austr. Big & empty
84 3 Austr. Cracked seatpost
85 4 Austr. Mark Beamont
86 5 Austr. Failure [of tyre]
87 6 Austr. GoPro taped to wheel
88 7 Austr. School talk
89 8 Austr. ...89 days
90 NZ Highest paved
91 NZ [parents] 10 hrs
92 NZ worth your life?
93 NZ Parents, drone
94 NZ Longest place name
95 NZ Gear list
96 NZ Shark bite
97 NZ Secluded waterfall
98 NZ no naked
99 NZ Xmas lights
100 NZ Meeting Magali
101 NZ camera in sea
102 1 USA 6000km
103 2 USA 2 person unic.
104 3 USA Pacific Coast Hwy
105 4 USA US Army Base
106 5 USA Modern Cowboys
107 USA Death Stranding. No USA episode number.
108 6 USA Deadly Mojave
109 7 USA Death Valley
110 8 USA SA to LV
111 9 USA Route 66
112 10 USA Grand Canyon
113 11 USA Meteor Crater
114 12 USA on Street View
115 13 USA Dudley pig piano
116 14 USA $100,000
117 15 USA Coldplay
118 16 USA Perfect saddle
119 17 USA He unicycled Alaska to Sth America
120 18 USA How not fix tyre
121 19 USA USA Finale
122 1hr14 Returning home
123 Q&A. SEE BELOW FOR NOTES FROM Q&A.
124 Cost
125 Not Guinness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXhDmwurK0
126 Wally Watts
127 Kaz, How I Survived Unicycling the World's Loneliest Road, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IjzTzcfbjs One of the more difficult bits. Published 27 Aug 2020, added at end of sequence, after the main part had been put in chronological order.
Notes from Q&A video
[edit]Unicycled from age 17 & found a community.
Carried up to 7 L water at a time. purification tabs.
4 tyres got through.
enjoyed filming: a focus, something to talk to,
worst weather (? means what/),
3 weeks without shower.
Tried to do 50, but 40 to 45 miles a day while cycling. Average over whole 22,000 miles, over whole time = about 20 miles/day.
Something about a 54” unicycle tried on the trip.
Had roughly 80 punctures, was worst in USA I 40 highway, when on hard shoulder [other vid said it was due to bits of wire from blown out lorry tyres].
Battery recharging, charge from laptop, multiple batteries, charge from laptop, use sparingly, Filming limited by batteries. Tried solar charger but did not work out because of slowness.
Met girlfriend Ishola, Nov 2015 in Bishkek where he was staying for the winter. (coming back from library in Bishkek where she was learning German I think she meant, not “learning in Germany”.)
Visas: in Istanbul wanting to apply for Uzbekistan visa at embassy. was filming in Embassy, visa refused and was told he was on watchlist so could not enter that country. Decided not to try again partly because other route planned.
23:36 map of original and final routes in that area. That ‘original is not the same as original one I looked at (see earlier in Talk).
He said original route was a rough plan, nothing set in stone.
Regrets: wishes filmed more of preparation for trip, ie month or 2 of footage.
Water drunk in day? 7 or 8 litres at most, 2 or 3 if reasonably cool, plus 1 or 2 for cooking.
One bear seen in wild Blue Ridge Parkway USA, not caught on camera, Pandas in China in zoo.
Had stolen: head torch from helmet by security guard in Kazakhstan. Also in Kaz. USB speaker stolen by child, later returned by other, older, child.
Storage of video: about 11 or 12 TB in all. Got most on hard drives in Bishkek plus 2 copies in the UK. Carried few hard drives, backed up via laptop onto 2 copies on external hard drives. If one hard drive failed would shop locally to get a replacement so that he could have 2 copies again. Started tour carrying 2 hard drives, later carrying 4 or 6. Did not have time to backup onto cloud. Parents or sister occasionally visited and brought fresh hard drives & took ones with data on back to UK. [I think he said in other vid that HDs were 1TB each.
Model dino picked up somewhere I kept on unic. to end of tour.
Most helpful apps? By far: navigation: borrowed a dedicated device (Garmin) but did not want to carry around £800 piece of equipment and wasn’t using it very much, so used (free?) app on smartphone that used data from OpenStreetMaps. Did not use it to tell him where to go. Found it accurate enough to see where he was and where he wanted to go and chose his own routes from options he could see.
Furthest in a single ‘day’? 130 miles over a 25 hr period 2pm to 3pm the next day. Was in China wanting to get to Kunming before Christmas and did not want to be on the road over Xmas. Wanted to be with people instead.Had a couple of hours sleep during the night. Doesn’t recommend it.
He estimated wheel revolution for whole tour at 12,340,000.
Did he, or others, feel there was danger of death from wild animals or people? Girlfriends parents said someting(??) "Maybe that’s a bad question”(??) He felt very safe out in the world.
Asked about tricks: He’s done very little in the way tricks as on smaller unic.
“Advice for someone who wants to do a unic. tour?” Work out how to put stuff on a unic. Probably a custom job. Does not recommend putting in a backpack, on back. Work out smallest amount of gear. Try it out, and then maybe do something bigger.
Planning another long dist. unic.? Probably not for a long time. Another cycling, ie bicycling not unicycling, focusing on a specific area, prob with Ishola....after pandemic restrictions over.
Some proposed/possible(?) topics
[edit]Some of these are already at least partially in the article.
- How he first got into unicycling
- Preparation before setting off: planning, long distance try-out
- To what extent extent the tour was a "first" (Pratt and many of the refs refer to it as the first)
- To what extent it is a "record", and the reason it is not a Guinness World Record, and not really attempted to be one
- Pratt's motivation, both why he started in the first place, and what he says about motivation as he went along (at one point local road officials say that it is too dangerous for him to traverse a section by unicycling or by walking, but they allow him to continue with particular extra safeguards, though Pratt looks prepared to continue without these - Pratt said that if he had given in he was worried that he might lose the motivation to continue)
- To what extent it is as-joined-up-as-possible, in other words, as much done by unicycling as continuous route on land. For some sections there was no land route (even off-road), but there are at least two places where he took ferries where some sort of land route existed: across the Caspian Sea, and across river in New Zealand. For latter I think he says that it was to save time. Google Maps shows roads as alternatives in both cases. On land, whenever Pratt went anywhere other than by unicycling or walking with his unicycle, he ensured that he came back to that point in order to keep the tour joined-up.
- To what extent a world tour? (as opposed to simply a long tour visiting a number of countries) Guinness has various stipulations about a route to be considered a world tour, including approximately visiting two antipodal points.
- Special difficulties, and benefits, of using a unicycle, as opposed to another human-powered land vehicle, such as a bicycle.
- Incidents along the way: some of the people met, and people who shared part of his journey, difficulties & enjoyments, other people's reactions (+ve & -ve), accidents/health problems eg heat exhaustion(?),
- Equipment used, just notable bits (& not brands): largest commercially available, 36", unicycle, luggage-carrying modification by grandfather, custom made luggage, camping: tent, multi-fuel stove (used it with petrol), clothes, recording equipment: cameras, a system to make selfie stick invisible in shots, drone; computer equipment: laptop, 1 TB external drives, GPS tracker provided tracking info for website and had special button for possible emergencies; tools, maintenance equipment, spares. Total weight: typically 40kg which Pratt says "is ridiculously heavy for a unicycle" (ref Gear list below)
- Gear List: Travelling the world for 3 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6JRZzt-vk&list=PLocRYksAqGOJnr-Y0eyP87P5banlFicp4&index=96&t=0s
- Equipment failures/breakages, lost, stolen, difficulties/successes with, saddle sores
- How he got video shots of his progress, especially apart from simple "selfies"
- Some editing done and video uploaded as he went along
- How much he had a specific planned route, and how much he followed it; reasons for changes of plan: his choices or force of circumstance
- Costs/income: amounts quoted by Pratt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw51zoXtk6E (this video gives other information about the tour apart form costs, such as some other info the things money was spent on):
- total cost, £22,982, initially coming from savings; initial kit, £1,674; rest on visas, paid transport, food and accommodation, replacement kit, tracker subscription,
- income during the tour £14,800; from advertising related to videos, teaching, donations (this money kept separate from donations to charity), during the trip people also gave him, or paid for his, food, accomodation or equipment; he often (mostly?) wild-camped (for free); income is continuing after the tour from giving talks, from videos; as of video published on 8 May 2020 whole cost of tour has been recouped; Pratt said "I'm now going on to work out to kind of turn this kind of adventuring into a business
Two possible ways of including topics:
- Chronologically,
- Under sub-headings
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