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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)
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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’. 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
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
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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