I mean, Mountain Biking isn’t called Miking.
That’s just plain old stupid.
It dosen’t require that much more physical nor mental exertion to say “Mountain Unicycling” instead of “Muni”.
Also, that way you aren’t confused with the San Fran Muni.
As for my reason for putting this in JC; I just thought that since it was more about word choice than unicycling, JC would be better suited.
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typical 20 year old.
Thinks he knows everything.
When talking about it, I dont think I ever specify what style im gonna ride, its always “Im gonna go unicycle.” and im gone. Either winding up downtown or in the middle of the woods.
Online, here at least, I type out muni, just cause its quicker to type out. Among unicyclist ill say it a little, just cause we all know what it means. But really, I hardly say it out loud.
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Is that the only word they teach you in that fancy college of yours, sonny?
You’re right. Lets just get rid of all the acronyms all together while we’re at it.
Sounds good, I dont really use them anyways.
hell nah foo
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We don’t use Tuni, Suni, or Funi, so why do we need Muni? Or Guni for that matter.
Because people don’t say ‘I ride trials unicycling/street unicycling/freestyle unicycling’, they say ‘I ride trials/street/freestyle’. Conversely, you never hear people say ‘I ride mountain’, it’s ‘I ride muni’.
I just say “Ride”. I ride unicycles and bikes, and whomever I go riding with rides that specifically so I’ll just call one of my friends and be like “Yo, wanna ride today?” and they’ll get it.
If you tell a non-rider “I muni” they give you that look and then you go “mountain unicycle.” Its always easier and quick for me to say “Im a mountain unicyclist.”
You took the words right out of my mouth. “Muni” sounds silly, anyway. It’s easy to type, sure. But to me, saying “Muni” in conversation would be like saying “lol” or “omg”.
Yeah, as a general rule, I hate acronyms.
Edit: While I’m ranting, another unicycle-specific abbreviation that I hate is UPD. Not only do you have to explain it to non-riders (if you ever use it in conversation, which would be weird), but it takes a short, one-syllable word (“fall” or “bail”) and “abbreviates” it into a three-syllable initialism. Unplanned dismount? Why?
It’s all a matter of context. People outside of unicycling won’t know what MUni means, so you don’t tell them you MUni. You ride unicycles. Or you ride unicycles on mountain bike trails.
Similarly, I’m getting ready for the upcoming MUni Weekend. I call it MUni Weekend when talking about it amongst us unicyclists, but for any public descriptions, including T-shirts (if it’s up to me), I call it the California Mountain Unicycle Weekend. Long-winded but descriptive.
George Peck would say it should be called Rough Terrain Unicylcing. After all, that’s a more accurate name. Only some of us have access to mountains, and we ride MUni we’re not always on them. I’ve been on great MUni rides or races in Iowa and Michigan.
But you’re in an Internet forum here. Aside from the fact that we’re unicyclists on top of being forum nerds, some of us are going to insist on using obscure acronyms and jargon no matter what.
So the next question is, should you captialize the U? (Most spell-checkers say no) 
Mountain biking-at least in that community-is often referred to as “mtb” or mtbr, as in www.mtbr.com. We say “Uni” all the time, and even the magazine is called by that shortened version of “Unicycle”.
So we’ve only added an “M” to the beginning. Having said all that, I almost alway use the full spelling for the beneift of those outside the uni-community, and verbalize it as "Mountain Unicycle/unicycling/unicyclist as well. But then I also always follow that by letting them know that we routinely call it, “MUni”, and every newspaper, tv appearance, magazine article-they all include that acronym. But I usually say the Mountain Unicycling first, and MUni afterword, not the other way around.
I was just sent a shirt from the author of the book I was in, and it came with a marker to write directly on the shirt, what your “Active life” sport is. It would have been much easier to just write “MUni”, but most non-uni people would not know what that meant, so I spelled it out fully. But within our own uni community, I’ll continue calling it MUni.
(And remember, a lot of people shorten “Geared uni” to “GUni”.)
Yeah, but first off, muni sounds dumb. Second off, bikers say they ride trials, freestyle and mountain so why shouldn’t we?
Riding muni means you’re on a Cable Car.
If it’s called Muni, it should have a caps U to get the full nerdiness.
Cool shirt!
One thing though Terry, try saying mtb. 
Oh, speaking of mountain riding… I’m awful out of shape…
Haven’t ridden since Moab…
Haha yeah, I just say each letter individually, not as a whole word, unlike MUni, which I think most people do say as a whole word.
But I do always refer to it as “Mountain Unicycling”, etc, and then follow that by saying “MUni” is used (usually) for short. I guess I’m just used to that acronym, and until now haven’t really given it much thought.
Old habits are hard to break I guess, lol. Like when people get nicknames they hate, and once they stick, it’s hard to change it. :o
