hi all you unicycle guys and garls!
I’m pritty new to the forum; I just started browsing around during the summer hols! (I use the gallery and other stuff quite a bit).
Please could some one explain some of the abbreviations used (e.g. UPD, etc) Its really bugging me! 
That’s all for now! 
UPD is short for UnPlanned Dismount
read fall
this reminds me of something i’ve been meaning to ask
can we start a collection of unicycling slang terms?
i recently came across a page containing a myriad of really freaky mountain biking terms
it made for some fun reading and i figured we have more than enought uniquely unicycling experiences to start our own list
we need, for example, a word to describe the feeling that u’ve been sitting in that saddle for about 10 minutes too long
or one for the kind of fall where your momentum carries you thru a pretty impressive looking front roll
suggestions?
“e.g.” is an abbreviation of the Latin exempli gratia, and it means “for example”.
“UPD” is an acronym for (the) “Unalakleet, Uniontown, or Utica Fire Department”… but on this forum, it usually means “UnPlanned Dismount”.
“etc.” is another abbreviation from Latin et cetera, “and the others”, or more popularly, “and so on”.
Personally, I make it a rule to plan every dismount, even if it’s only a split-second before it happens to me, thereby eliminating all UPDs.
I recommend this technique to all who want to improve their riding and bragging skills.
DANG! I typed this post too slowly! (Or Gild has a faster connection!)
David Stone started a fairly extensive thread on this subject some time back… (or was that on making our terms more opaque and colourfull?).
Ahh… here it is:
-Christopher
thanx
i read the thread and have to agree that it must be a natural process
my original request was for a list of existing terms, not the creation of them
by the sound of it, it’s gonna be one short list
from that thread, this must be my fav
"…When Harper inevitably becomes the cycling star he’s bound to be, do we all want to be stuck saying “Non-Euclidean” for “Off-Road”? "
Skateboarding got a lot of its slang initially from surfing. Cycling lingo is pretty cross-over among the diverse “styles”, I’d think, given the common factors (i.e.: rolling on the ground while more or less balanced on circular spok-ed thingies)… UNIcycling already has its own UNIque terminology, and I agree with the idea that it will ®evolve more or less naturally. Certainly, this forum will be a driving force in this ®evolution.
A picture of pedals from another thread (I’d include the link, but http://www.brooklynmachineworks.com seems to be down at the moment) made me think that “shinburger” is an appropriate term for what pedals do to you. Could work as a noun, verb, adjective, or, well, no, I guess it’s too long to be a good expletive.
How about “I’ve been Savaged!”… or, insert the torture instrument brand of your choice… (in the sentence, I mean!)
“i’ve been savaged” is perfect, lol… (for various reasons)
or in my case, i've been viscounted!
i think the first, would make more sense for those not saddle-name-literate…
I like that, Dave. I also like “transhighland multi-variable non-linear quasi-stable system translation.” It rolls right off the tongue and off-road comes right to mind.
That reminds me of a comment I got from a few skater friends I have “Killer Manual” as I rode by.
For thoes of you guys who dont skate a manual on a bike is basically a wheele, or balacing on the only 2 wheels on a skateboard.
I think we could probaly take a few skate terms and translate them to the Uni like:
Frontside: The frontside (we can go Cholate side) of the body is facing the obstacle
Backside: The backside (Vinilla Side) of the body is facing the obstacle (rail, legde, curb, wall, etc).
Drop-in: To enter a ramp
Fakie: A word used to signify the rider is going backwards while standing in his standard position (Although I have heard other defenitions of this aswell)
Tweak: To bend, contort, or otherwise move the body and Uni during a maneuver.
Re: am i thick?
Adams’s Law: Everyone is an idiot at least some of the time.
–Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert
Actually, a fall is quite different from a UPD. A UPD is a successful dismount (although perhaps awkward) necessitated by emergency or unexpected circumstances in which the rider lands on his/her feet with control of the unicycle and remains so by running if necessary. In a fall, the rider loses control of the unicycle and does not remain on his/her feet.
Re: am i thick?
> Actually, a fall is quite different from a UPD. A UPD is a successful
> dismount (although perhaps awkward) necessitated by emergency or
> unexpected circumstances in which the rider lands on his/her feet with
> control of the unicycle and remains so by running if necessary. In a
> fall, the rider loses control of the unicycle and does not remain on
> his/her feet.
I wouldn’t’ve considered keeping control of the unicycle a prerequisite.
I wonder what I’m doing then, if not UPDing. I generally land on my feet
and run a little, but keeping the unicycle is a coin-flip-like probability.
Re: am i thick?
harper wrote:
> Actually, a fall is quite different from a UPD. A UPD is a successful
> dismount (although perhaps awkward) necessitated by emergency or
> unexpected circumstances in which the rider lands on his/her feet with
> control of the unicycle and remains so by running if necessary. In a
> fall, the rider loses control of the unicycle and does not remain on
> his/her feet.
Why? Surely if you fall then you have dismounted without planning to do
so. Therefore what argument can there be that this is not an unplanned
dismount?
Nick Grey
Add 0112 before the “at” to e-mail me.
Re: am i thick?
Nick Grey <nickgrey@farrand.net> wrote
> Why? Surely if you fall then you have dismounted without planning to do
> so. Therefore what argument can there be that this is not an unplanned
> dismount?
I’d tend to say a fall is where you suddenly find yourself on the ground
or flying through the air thinking “aargh, what happened?!”. A UPD on the
other hand is when you’re riding along and realise “uh-oh, I’m about to
fall off…” so jump off or control the fall instead.
And I consider myself an expert at falling off…
“Cattle Prods solve most of life’s little problems.”
RE: am i thick?
> Actually, a fall is quite different from a UPD. A UPD is a
> successful dismount (although perhaps awkward) necessitated
> by emergency or unexpected circumstances in which the rider
> lands on his/her feet with control of the unicycle and
> remains so by running if necessary.
That’s not how I thought of UPD either. I thought of it as a politically
correct way to say “I fell off.” UPD does not indicate the severity of the
dismount, other than that it was unplanned.
JF
We’ve had this UPD discussion in various forms before. I’d suggest there are three levels of UPD:
You step off unexpectedly, but retaining sufficient control to catch the seat. When lucky, you can make this appear deliberate. This is a ‘dismount’ (rather than a ‘fall’ and is clearly UnPlanned in any real sense.
You step off unexpectedly, land on your feet and stay upright and the uni hits the deck. This isn’t elegant enough to be called a dismount, but isn’t serious enough to be a fall.
You fall off and do not remain on your feet. This is definitely a fall.
I always took the term UPD to be ironic, rather than Politically Correct, and to refer to all 3 cases. Perhaps we could say
UPD(1), UPD(2) and UPD(3).
If we need extra terms and acronyms, would the third and most serious be a Sudden High Impact Trauma? The acronym springs readily to the lips when the incident to which it refers occurs. ;0)
My monitor narrowly avoided being covered in flying bits of custard creams…
Phil, just me
Rick,
I like this! I think I’ll adopt this rule as a personal philosophy.
Thanks,
Bruce Gilbertson
(actually Edwards but I hope to fool the lottery next NAUCC and win a unicycle)
…and thinking further, if I didn’t PLAN on dismounting in the event of a catastrophic failure of my unicycle, in road conditions or in judgement, even if it wasn’t until the very last split second, would I still be on the uni and go down with the ship? Is there really any such thing as an unplanned dismount?
Thanks,
Bruce Gilbertson
(actually Edwards but I hope to fool the lottery next NAUCC and win a unicycle)
When I talk to unimuggles about unicycling, they always ask me how often I fall. I tell them I rarely fall and that only when MUni’ing do I fall. I don’t consider a UPD a fall, because I don’t fall. I may lose control, I may dismount, the Uni may fall, but I don’t fall.
The “how often do you fall” question is directed toward the rider, because the muggle is trying to get an idea of how safe it is. The beauty of unicycling, I explain, is that you walk out of most losses of control - thus UPD. Therefore, I would say UPD(1) and UPD(2) make sense, but UPD(3) as you call it, is falling.
That’s how I see things.