Infrastructure
Surface quality, curb ramps, crossings, visibility, lane geometry, debris, drainage and route continuity are daily operating conditions, not abstractions.
EUC · bicycle · foot · transit · streets
The electric unicycle is transportation, not a party trick.
Nearly a decade of daily EUC commuting belongs in the biography because it changed how streets, crossings, distance, weather, traffic behavior, family logistics and infrastructure are experienced.
Time, distance and ordinary life.
Chico News & Review’s 2019 “Whom to Watch” profile noted the electric-unicycle commute as part of the practical problem of fitting public office, professional work, teaching, boards, family and running into the same finite day. The EUC was never hidden from public life. It was part of how that life moved.
Read CN&R’s 2019 profile →Street-level planning
Transportation policy looks different at wheel height.
Family mobility
Riding alongside children on bikes turns traffic rules, route choices, hand signals, visibility and geography into repeated family practice.
Planning and resilience
Weather, battery range, alternate routes, lights, protective gear, communications and meeting points connect ordinary mobility to Team Stone’s broader planning doctrine.
Team Stone →Transit · bicycles · EUC
Transportation is a system, not a favorite mode.
Serving on BCAG while also using buses, bicycles and an electric unicycle made the gaps between policy diagrams and ordinary travel unusually hard to ignore. Family logistics made those gaps even less theoretical.
The fleet behind the route map
Regional transit policy involves capital equipment, maintenance, accessibility, service planning and the people who actually need the route to work.
The Thursday Night Market by bicycle
Bicycles were ordinary transportation into downtown civic and family life, not a separate recreation category.
The transfer point is where policy becomes logistics
Bus stops, backpacks, an EUC, school schedules and safe routes all meet in one ordinary trip.
A crash does not erase the mode
April 27, 2024 changed the safety story, not the transportation history.
The public sentencing record documents a DUI collision while Randall was riding an electric unicycle through a crosswalk with his young son following on a bicycle. The crash, recovery and later victim-impact statement belong in the personal record because they connect parenting, mobility, safety, trauma and the decision to keep living a full life rather than allowing one driver’s conduct to define the mode of transportation.
There is an older transportation-injury baseline too: an October 1988 bicycle crash on Stanford University’s Campus Drive, at age 14, cost me a front tooth. The original tooth has been absent ever since. That history matters after 2024 precisely because the two events should not be conflated.
The transportation record starts early
Bicycles were independence before they were risk.
By seventeen, bicycle mileage was already measured in tens of thousands. The October 1988 Stanford crash at age fourteen also left a permanent dental baseline: the front tooth was lost then, not in the April 2024 EUC collision.