# BUC - Motivation for Unicycling!?
**URL:** https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670
**Category:** General
**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670 "2006-05-10T13:54:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@steve.colligan](https://unicyclist.com/u/steve.colligan)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/1 "2006-05-10T13:54:10Z")
Motivation for Unicycling!?
I am doing some research for my PhD into what motivates people to learn to ride a unicycle and then continue with unicycling. Learning to ride a unicycle is a difficult skill to master. It is something which takes time, patience and perseverance. So what motivated you? Was it the challenge to yourself, the desire to be different from the crowd or something else?
If you’d be willing to tell me about your motivation or have an email dialogue with me about it then I’d be really grateful. If so please fill in a contact form at the BUC this weekend so I can talk to you at a later date.
At the BUC I particularly want to find out how people ‘see’ their unicycle (or unicycles) and how they describe their relationship with them. Is your unicycle important to you because of the pleasure or satisfaction you get from riding it? Are you proud of owning a unicycle – or embarrassed to admit it? Is it a ‘special’ possession of yours that has pride of place in your home, garage or shed, or is my husband (Steve Colligan) the only obsessive unicyclist in the UK?!
I’m looking for volunteers at the BUC who will:
1. pose with their unicycle for a photo,
2. describe how they feel about their unicycle, using the photo as a prompt.
If you’re willing to give me 10 minutes of your time that would be great! Please come and find me or look out for me over the weekend.
Wendy Bignold
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### Author:  [@epistolize](https://unicyclist.com/u/epistolize)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/2 "2006-05-10T14:22:41Z")
i’ll do it if i come across you:)
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### Author:  [@keg](https://unicyclist.com/u/keg)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/4 "2006-05-10T14:37:41Z")
Hi Wendy,
I’ll definitely give you an Engineer’s view, but I would be more interested if you interviewed T&D without me being present - but only if you tell me their answers 🙂 I would love to know their motivation.
Keith
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### Author:  [@sarah.miller](https://unicyclist.com/u/sarah.miller)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/5 "2006-05-10T14:55:06Z")
Wendy
I won’t have my own uni with me as I’m not surposed to be riding at the mo, but happy to talk.
Sarah
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### Author:  [@zippy](https://unicyclist.com/u/zippy)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/6 "2006-05-10T15:00:08Z")
can’t miss me - i’ll be wearing the zippy bag 😃
I’ll do it.
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### Author:  [@unicus](https://unicyclist.com/u/unicus)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/7 "2006-05-10T15:48:26Z")
> [@](#):
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> or is my husband (Steve Colligan) the only obsessive unicyclist in the UK?!
Not a chance. 😃
> [@](#):
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> I’m looking for volunteers at the BUC who will:
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> 1. pose with their unicycle for a photo,
> 2. describe how they feel about their unicycle, using the photo as a prompt.
Are you sure you don’t mean unicycles 😉
See you at BUC
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### Author:  [@paul\_royle](https://unicyclist.com/u/paul_royle)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/8 "2006-05-11T00:21:04Z")
Hi Wendy, I’ll do it.
Paul
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### Author:  [@cathwood](https://unicyclist.com/u/cathwood)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/9 "2006-05-11T00:30:15Z")
I’ll do it but I’m slightly dubious that people will consciously know their motivation, although they may have a narrative about it.
Cathy
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### Author:  [@nickjb](https://unicyclist.com/u/nickjb)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/10 "2006-05-11T00:57:46Z")
> [@steve.colligan](#):
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> Motivation for Unicycling!?
> …
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> 1. pose with their unicycle for a photo,
> …
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> Wendy Bignold
😲
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### Author:  [@olwyn](https://unicyclist.com/u/olwyn)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/11 "2006-05-11T01:38:40Z")
> [@nickjb](#):
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> 😲
Hell, there is posing AND POSING. 😃 Loving it 😃
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### Author:  [@steve.colligan](https://unicyclist.com/u/steve.colligan)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/12 "2006-05-11T05:01:41Z")
Hi Nick,
I know you’ve had your haircut really short recently, but I’m sure this isn’t you!!!😃
See you tomorrow.
Steve
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### Author:  [@Eddbmxdude](https://unicyclist.com/u/Eddbmxdude)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/buc-motivation-for-unicycling/79670/13 "2006-05-11T05:04:23Z")
I knew “the” harper pic would show up sooner or later!
See you guys tomorrow.
Ride on!
Edd