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Ed Pratt World Unicycle Tour YouTube playlist index
1	Mins 2.5	Ep	Series	Title: Ed Pratt - Unicycling around the World	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLocRYksAqGOJnr-Y0eyP87P5banlFicp4 WORLD TOUR PLAYLIST Route, expected miles & months & motivation, see ‘001 notes.txt’ not green wheel yet 2	5			to lancaster	350 Miles, 10 Days, 1 Wheel (Unicycling to Lancaster) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hlmXv0HEbA 3		1		Setting off	Unicycling around the world: Episode 1 (Setting off!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVLH54DgDWM 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	break 22				travel light	break 23				snowboarding	break 24				snowboarding	break 25				frozen trees	break 26				tandeming Karakol	break 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	possibly the one where he says about having to mount downwind, 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’ 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	donce 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. GoPr taped 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	where N & S tranfr betwn islands? <<10:41 Tracker screenshot up to Singapore. 10:33 tracker explanation start>> 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 ep number! (game USA cataclysmic, destructive creatures) 108		6	USA	DeadlyMojave 109		7	USA	Death Valley 110		8	USA	SA to LV 111		9	USA	Route 66 112		10	USA	Grnd Canyon 113		11	USA	Meteor Crater	(but what was town of Meteor named after) 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 CONTENT FROM F123 COPIED TO SEPARATE TXT DOCUMENT	Unic. from 17 & found a community.up to 7 L water at a time. purification tabs. 4 tyres got through. enjoyed filming, a focus, something to talk to, worst weather, 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. 54” unic. ~80 punctures, worst in USA I 40 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 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. He said original was a rough plan, notheing 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. 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 ocassionally 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 whre 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.Wsa 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? Grlrnds prnts, and others, worried about wolves & gave him some small fireworks to scare them away. His fear of being murdered? no, and experienced very little negativity or agression “Who’s gonna mess with a guy on a unicycle? Maybe that’s a bad question” He felt very safe out in the world. 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 puting in a backpack, on back.work out smallest amt gear. Try it out, and then maybe do something bigger. Another long dist. unic.? probably not for a long time. Another cycling, focusing on a specific area, prob with Ishola....after pandemic restrictions over.

124				Cost

125				Not Guinness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXhDmwurK0	Various inspiring people: ADD Inspirations, to Motivation section, also mentions motivation to keep going 07:49 “even though I didn't follow all of guinnesses regulations I did employ one of my own that I stuck to religiously over the three years that was if I was on land I could only make progress under my own power ie you know cycling or walking after realizing early on that I was never going to be able to cycle up every Hill I came across I was happy to allow myself to walk up steep sections of road I suspect if I tally it all up with all the mountain passes and rough sections I probably walk close to a thousand miles on the trip the reason I think I employed this self-imposed rule was to keep myself motivated mentally when things got tough I felt that if I allow myself to skip a section even for a couple of miles it would ultimately undermine my desire to continue so I take pride in knowing that apart from the watery bits there's an unbroken unicycle tire track around the entire planet which I think it's pretty cool”

126				Wally Watts https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Jb5IolicW/ written warning notice for camping, not on a campsite, in a State Park in USA

Ed Pratt World Unicycle Tour, YouTube playlist index
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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’

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

--NOTE TO SELF, THIS NOT LATEST VERSION: SEE MY TALK--

Notes from Q&A video
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.