Hi, folks. Not been writing much because I’ve not been riding since I hurt my rib (Stunned in the Desert). More or less recovered, at last, but now Xmas, the winter festival that sounds like a dry skin complaint, is upon us.
I have spent some time in the BMW motorcycle forum, mainly asking people to look out for my stolen brand new motorbike (now recovered, damaged) and I commented that much of the writing in that forum is very negative, complaining about servicing and warranty issues and the like. One person responded, “But who wants to read posts about what a great ride someone has had, and where they’ve been?”
If you lot had been more frank with me, I could have saved all that effort writing those long winded ride reports. I now understand that no one would want to read what a great ride someone has had, and where they’ve been. I feel so ashamed, and humbly beseech your forgiveness.
In the new year, I plan a series of posts carping on about some design problems I have identified with the concept of a one wheeled pedal powered vehicle, and suggestng ways of attaching a second wheel, brakes, and up to 21 selectable gears, to improve the riding experience. Frankly, I am surprised and disappointed that Kris Holm never spotted the gap in the market for these obvious improvements to his products.
Haha. Your post gave me some serious giggles.
Seriously tho, authough I sometimes struggle to read your ride reports due to my limited literacy, when I do manage to get through them I have a thoroughly enjoyable time.
Trust me, there is plenty of posts regarding the servicing and warranty issues of our unicycles. Well at least there would be if we had any. The problem is, that we can so easily contact the people who designed/sold us our unicycles and work through any problems with them personally as apposed to airing out our grievences in a public forum.
Kris Holm Unicycles and UDC are great examples of how a company can service its customer base in an efficient and friendly manner.
We can all thank the fact that we are (mostly) very friendly people and are unlikely to complain at things not worth complaining about (unicycle related things anyways).
In light of your comments, lets keep our community is such a wonderful way.
And whatever you do, dont stop posting your ride reports.
And next to go would be the Roland Hope School of Unicycling, I suppose. Without the financial support you get from ride write-up royalties it’s bound to fail.
You’re not going to find any forgiveness from me because I don’t believe there was any wrong done.
Your ride reports are always an enjoyable read. Frankly, they offer a nice diversion from the usual one or two line posts with multiple grammatical and spelling errors per line.
Unfortunately, I don’t usually have the time to try to figure out what your intentional mistakes are. I probably wouldn’t be able to figure them out anyway. There are probably few people on this forum who have the smarts and the time to figure it out.
I think the reason you ride reports don’t stay up long is because most people, (like me) read them and then move on. Even if someone wants to try to figure out the mistakes they must pm you, which doesn’t help keep your thread at the top of the pile.
Maybe, the next time you do a writeup you could change the way you have the contest and make it so that people can discuss what they think is wrong in the thread rather than sending you a pm. This would keep it up much longer and it may create more interest.
What ever you do please don’t stop your writeups! I am sure there are many others on this forum that enjoy reading them as much as I do.
Hurry up and get better so we can hear about another ride!
Wow, that BMW group must be unique. I belong to another motorcycle group, (for older Jap bikes), and most of the posts are either folks asking for and getting mechanical advice, or people posting beautifully written ride reports. Kind of like this forum here, actually.
Why are you wasting your time idling around with a painful rib? I had expected a plethora of imagined rides. You need to get into fiction too.
Nao… now more or less recovered from minor injury. first ride since recovery was last night. Twice around the gym …anticlockwise. No UPD’s, no exotic wildlife observed, no other uni’s on the route, pine needles at a seasonal minimum.
I must admit that I don’t have time to read all your ride writeups (as I’m browsing these fora during job time) but I wish I had!
Please keep on taking us into your rides. I love the “errors contest” though I’m not good at it (especially because of a lack of vocabulary, but your writeups are a good way to solve this issue;) )
I’ve used Newsgroups on the internet for about 7 years now, and, to be honest, this is probably the most friendly one I’ve found. No bitchyness, or backstabbing. Hardly any flaming. And only a couple of tossers. I think it must be something to do with unicycling itself that keeps people enthusiastic for all the ancillary sides of the sport (such as this).
It’s a really funny difference between both communities…
And as we talk about it… Mike, even though english is not my mother tongue
(but I’m doing well I think )and despite I’m mostly unable to solve your quizzes, I always enjoy your write-ups. Thanks!
Sometimes I’m not exactly thrilled with being part of the ‘BMW crowd.’ I’ve owned several and still have two, one undergoing full restoration and I think they’re wonderful bikes but, the owners are often snobbish and dull. When I go to a BMW rally, it’s usually a bunch of old, fat men who stand around, talk about their bikes and go off to bed by 9:00 p.m. When I’ve gone to Harley Davidson rallys it’s a bunch of fat, old men with all of their spouses/significant others who drink and whoop it up around the campfire 'til all hours of the morning and things can get pretty wild. Definitely a more fun crowd. I just wish I didn’t hate their loud, obnoxious, poorly designed, ill handling motorcycles.
Sheer GENIUS !!! Why hasn’t somebody thought of this before? These could be the advances in unicycles that really get them globally accepted.
Not everyone appears to have spotted that I was being drily ironic in a self-mocking post modern sort of way.
My point was that those in the BMW forum who think there is no place for such write ups don’t know what they’re missing. One does because I posted a reference to this forum in that one and he did a Google and found my post in this one criticising that one. Mikefule fails his social skills test again.:o
Thanks for all the sympathy for having my brand new motorcycle stolen, by the way.
Oh, there wasn’t any sympathy. Fair enough.
Bike now recovered with extensive damage and may be a write off. Early forensic reports suggest that it has been in close contact with thick gormless stupid mindless retarded chavvy low-life thieving cretins for whom hanging is too good and flogging is the only language they understand. (Note to Naomi - that may be tautological, but on this occasion justified for emphasis. )
I think self mockery and subtle irony just does not come across well on the internet. You must have noticed that by now, so I will assume you’re being subtly ironic again.
I wasn’t sympathetic about your motorbike, I was horrified! Your lovely new motorbike stolen??? Is there no God? (You see GK, that’s the only way to have your thread stay on the front page for a while - to include a debate about God - or rules on the forum). Sorry. Seriously though, I am totally gutted for you.
If you ever find the (er chappy) that did it, hold him down until I can get there to give him a good kicking.
I like your writeups, though I basically read anything, but they’re cool. It’s not exactly MUni-ing with you, but it’s watching you MUni(I do the same thing with Nancy Drew!) so it’s close enough. Everyone loves your writeups…so do I, if I ever wrote one, or a lot, they would all be called “My trip to the Beach on the Unicycle” or “My trip to the park on the beach on my unicycle” but it’s good enough. Though I forget the details, so I can’t write them down anyways.
Edit: the motorcycle–is that the device you were talking about? Isn’t it before New Year’s?
As long as we’re comparing fora here, I’m a frequent visitor to a Volkswagen forum (I’ve always been a VW fanatic too) and as long as you contribute to a technical forum with technical questions and answers, things are just fine. But, as soon as somebody posts virtually anything in a general discussion forum the first dozen or so replies typically request that the original poster have intercourse with him/herself and then die. I’m sometimes amazed at the out and out rudeness that people exhibit under the cloak of anonymity that the internet provides. It makes me appreciate this forum each and every day. We should get an award for having the nicest forum on the internet.
There are simply not enough bad words to describe these sorts of people. Had you added another few I would have read them avidly. I can only hope that the bike did as much damage to the thief, as he did to the bike.
Sadly no one in the governmental and legal arena speaks flogging any more. Another important language lost for ever.
Sympathy abounds, but I shall also be interested to see how well an insurance assessor makes out with the claim. If anyone can get a full payout I imagine it should be you. Your no claims also sees my regrets.
Should you find the culprit, then you are welcome to borrow my boots, once Cath Wood has finished with him. You wear size 5? I was in a situation and I had to use one of them as a weapon (to VERY good effect) this last weekend. I would kick him myself for you, but don’t want to get too much of a reputation.
)and despite I’m mostly unable to solve your quizzes, I always enjoy your write-ups. Thanks! 
