"Bike paths" marginalize unicyclists. END unicycle marginalization!!! Stencil unicy

End Bike Supremacy! Refuse to be marginalized!!

Hey everybody! We’re already marginalized. There’s got to be 10 different magazines for bicyclists, and maybe ONE for unicyclists (and no local shops carry it). There’s bike shops everywhere, but even in NYC, there’s NO unicycle shops. Most kids are encouraged to learn to ride a bike. How many are encouraged to unicycle? It’s rare, I can tell you.

If you get the feeling there’s a systematic BIAS against us, you are correct!!

If you feel like you get more comments due to unicycling than other people get biking or walking, it’s probably true. THEY are doing this to you, and you do not deserve this.

They have marginalized you.

Now that we’re organized, we have power, and they should fear us.

We unicycle, and we vote!!!

Everytime I ride down a bike path along the edge of the road, I see these stencils of 2-wheeled vehicles every 100 feet or so. They’re rubbing it in our faces, that we as unicyclists do not belong on THEIR bike path. Personally, I can’t stand it. I don’t think you should take this crap either. It’s beneath you to allow yourself to be treated as second class.

Get mad! Don’t take it any longer!!

It’s time to fight the power!!! Let’s take back the bike paths!!! We have just as much right to them, if not moreso!!

Write to the president of your unicycling club, of the Unicycling Society, and the International Unicycling Club, demanding they lobby to stencil unicycles on those paths!!! Call your assembleymen and local legislators, state legislators and even federal lawmakers. Heck, let’s contact those in the big secret World Government, and have them stencil UNICYCLES on those paths!!

Let’s BAN the word Bike Path from the language. It’s the language of the bike suprematists. The FBI allows Bike Supremacy groups to run races in our PUBLIC PARKS!! This has got to end. This is the government SUPPORTING bike supremacy! Watch out, before you know it, they’ll be rounding up the unicyclists and putting us behind barbed wire.

We will NOT be marginalized any longer!!! END unicycle marginalization!!!

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem!

Power to the Unicyclists!! Right on!!

PS: And for those like me who unicycle with their dog on a leash, try to get them to stencil THAT on the “Unicycle-with-Dog Path.”

Unicycle-with-Dog people UNITE!!! We have NO magazine devoted exclusively to our needs and interests. We have no national or international events.
and would you believe, peopel have the nerve to LAUGH when they see me unicycling with my dog, as if it’s FUNNY!!! My dog cannot take it much more. She’s PROUD of her skills.

My dog will be running the agility course with me unicycling beside her. I think this should be an Olympic event!!! Don’t you? And Unicycle-Dog Track and Field events! the 400 meter, the 1200 meter, the marathon. My dog does a 10k race on leash with me unicycling her several times/week.

No. I did not copy and paste this from the internet. These are really MY ideas.

A few days ago I was just riding in the street and this old lady gasped and crossed herself when she saw me.

I just want a bike/cycle path to ride on!

Billy’s turning into a hater…

You’re funny!

Proof positive!!

Why? Because I am NOT afraid to speak the truth? Because I’m not cowering in the face of rampant Bike Supremacy?

I’m sure past presidents of major unicycle clubs feel on-the-spot for their collusion with Bike Suprematists, for having done nothing to fight this grave injustice.

But I’m not pointing fingers. I’m just hoping people join me. Esp those who unicycle-with-dogs.

As a dog owner, I’d just say that you’ve just put the finger on a worlwide problem, Billy.
You can count on me for struggling till I die for your cause (or untill THEY -spit on the floor- die):smiley:

I live in a community that’s very bike friendly. Lots of bike paths here. I’ve often thought about making a uni stencil for the bike paths and doing a stealth stenciling late at night. Haven’t done it yet but it’s gonna happen one day. I wonder if the police/city council would consider it vandilism? If so, the list of suspects would be pretty darn small.

fight the power!!!

How about BIcycle paths with this stencil painted on?

Or you could go to Portland Oregon where they have a couple of unicycle stencils.

Yeah that guys right…we do need bikepaths…you know that little white line on the side of the road…thats we get here in Pueblo West…People dont slow down much either for us to get out of the way…its stupid what we put up with here…as for in Pueblo (the main city about 10 miles from Pueblo West) they got the bike shops that carry unicycles and sidewalks to ride on…People actually let us go across the roads there…especially the highways…But yes its true they do need more of a system for unicycles in towns all over the world…

Thanks John!!

Both are a step in the right direction!!!

Fight Bike Supremacy. Equality for Unicyclists!!

Billy

Billy, I thought you juggled whilst unicycling. Do you juggle the dog then? Or three dogs?

I have to say, I have put down the clubs for a while, cuz I love my dog Gala, and she LOVES me to take her for a run on the Coker.

I must add, tho, that a known Bike Supremacist who always shouts curses at me unicycling, recently shouted something similar: Hey A–hole, why don’t you try that with THREE dogs?! Some of his fellow Bikers shhhhh-d him.

So, based on the good work of several of you fighters for justice, the FBI has beggun an investigation into several Bike Supremacists groups.

Arrests are imminant.

Fight Bike Supremacy. Equality for Unicycles!

sings billy dont be a hater, dont be a foooool!!! sings
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I like the fact that unicycles aren’t popular and mainstream… that’s what attracted me to them.
I’m sure I’m not the only one either.

Nope. You’re the only one.

Besides, it has nothing to do with popularity.

Just because they’re not widely used, doesn’t mean we can’t belong, and have a cycle path, with a uni stenciled on it.

Obviously that only applies to BC wheelers (this guy’s about to jump on). What about us regular unicyclists??

I kind of like being under the radar. If they start making laws and erecting signs for us, won’t they be mostly about telling us what we can’t do? I don’t want to be slotted.

John Foss and his kind need consciousness raising (CR). Wake up!!!

Reminds me of Ralph Ellison’s award winning novel, Invisible Man, which follows the Black narrator in his search for identity in a color‑conscious society whose constricting social and cultural bigotry produces an accelerated pattern of violence and oppression which attempts to efface the narrator of his individuality, thus assigning him an “invisible” non‑identity within America.

The underlying force in Invisible Man is the atmosphere of America that begins in the early 1900’s of the segregated deep south, and ends in the North’s predominately black neighborhood of Harlem during the 1930’s.

Reminds me of John Foss’s Invisible Man follows the unicyclist narrator in his search for identity in a society conscious of the number of wheels you ride, whose constricting social and cultural bigotry against unicyclists produces an accelerated pattern of violence and oppression which attempts to efface John Foss of his individuality, thus assigning him an “invisible” non‑identity within America.

Oddly enough, John ENJOYS his “invisible” non‑identity.

What John Foss and his kind need is consciousness raising (CR). JJuggle, Uni57, steveyo, Greg Harper, Bugman, and Gilby have volunteered to be facillitators, and run CR groups at the next NAUCC and UNICON.

This is going to be great!!! Now we’re really going to change the world.

I can just see us unicycling peacefully, while the cops shoot firehoses at us, sic their snarling dogs on us, for all the world to see how unicyclists are mistreated, how the Bike Supremacists have the police power wrapped around their little finger.

That’s all gonna change very soon…