사설토토

Aspen Unicyclist Tackles Tough Terrain 

ASPEN, Colorado " Mike Tierney has become used to the gazes. From passing drivers. From individual cyclists. From mountain goats, even. 사설토토

Furthermore, who can fault them? Who wouldn't gaze at Tierney, apparently all muscle and coarseness, when he comes into center around the shoulder of one of the state's most elevated parkways? 

Individuals are familiar with seeing unicyclists at the carnival, in marches, doing road theater. 

They don't have the foggiest idea what to consider Tierney when they see him, in full cycling clothing, accelerating his single 36-inch wheel up Independence Pass. Or on the other hand Fremont Pass. Or on the other hand Tennessee Pass. 

Truly, simply name a pass in the express that goes over the Continental Divide. But three or four, Tierney's ridden every one of them. 

"I will in general make my own gridlocks," the 48-year-old Aspenite said of his rides, which have developed him an army of fans among individual cyclists " one-haggled wheeled " and pretty much any other individual who's always seen his demonstration. 

This is all to say that Mike Tierney is a bit of an oddity. Not a carnival freak, but rather positively an Aspen one, another solitary person in a town loaded with them. 

To make the statement, consider Tierney's latest Saturday: Tierney wanted to ride from the front entryway of his Aspen Highlands home to Breckenridge. On his unicycle, obviously. Unquestionably drawing gazes. 

The 100-mile ride was a thought Tierney concocted subsequent to finishing the previous summer's 78-mile Copper Triangle (Fremont, Tennessee and Vail passes in a solitary day) and knocking off a two-day, 100-mile ride up Arizona's two tallest mountains this spring. 

The Aspen-to-Breck ride " whenever finished " will be the longest ride Tierney has at any point done on his uni, and, apparently, the hardest century ride anybody has at any point done on one wheel in a day. 

Tierney just persuaded his significant other to drive the family vehicle to Breckenridge to allow him to do the ride in return for taking the couple's little girl and a few companions to a show Saturday night in Denver as a birthday present. 

Indeed, you read that right. Subsequent to going through an expected 14 hours in the seat and climbing around 10,000 joined vertical feet, Tierney wanted to get off his bicycle, bounce in the vehicle two or three teen young ladies and drive to Fiddler's Green to see bubblegum heart breakers the Jonas Brothers. 

Then, at that point Tierney intended to drive the entire team back to a companion's home in Breckenridge that evening prior to getting some rest. 

"My significant other believes I'm insane," he concedes. "I couldn't say whether she'd drive the vehicle in case we weren't going to Denver for show subsequently. Truly, she's consistently strong of all that I do, yet with this ride, she believes I'm insane."