the other day a band of 12 year old kids on bikes attacted me with queations on my MUni.one of them said"can i try it,i’ll let you ride my bike"knowing my uni’s seat would come up to his chest, i said yes anyway.so im tooling around on his tiny bike and what do i see?he jumps on it suicide style,as i cringe his butt lands on the seat and the air pillow inside shoots his 65 pound body up in the air like a rockit.i just thought this funny.i guess it takes a child to attempt suicide mount, as there first mount.more power to him.he did’nt want to try that again though.the future of MUni is there hands. if a kid asks,i say let them try.
I was riding while my wife was walking one day a couple of years ago. We came across two women walking along who thought it was cool to see someone out on the street riding a unicycle. One woman was about 50 or so. The other, her mother, was about 75. I asked them if they would like to give it a try. The mother, although she did not attempt a suicide mount, was the one who took the plunge after saying she would try anything at least once. My wife and I supported her as she rode a couple of revs down the street. ALWAYS try your best to accommodate (in a safe way) ANYONE who wants to give it a try. What you are doing is good, positive exposure. Keep it up, jagur.
i offered a security guard a shot at mine after he through me out the shopping center. the annoying bit was that i’d just bought it that day, as an 18th present for my mate and i didn’t want to lock it up outside. added to which i was buying new pedals and a different tire for it, so i was actually shopping in the center. then he calls it a TRIcycle like one hundered times, clearly it didn’t have three wheels. he escorted me out, then acts like he’s my friend and starts asking questions about it, i feel like i should watch him fall over, (i felt i needed revenge) so offered him a shot, he declined, but told me i could go back in if i put it in a trolley and wheeled it around in that. to me that is stupid, i feel i have more control wheeling a uni, and it is smaller, than it a put it in a trolley. oh well
tim
I worship Jesus
Sometimes I wish I would get messed with by the authorities so I could find some loophole that excludes unicycles.
I dont know where you live, but the law doesnt really matter! I have blatently lied to cops telling them that a uni is not considered a bicycle or a vehicle under New York state law. They have no idea what I am saying is complete bull, but if you say that you researched it just out of curiosity, they tend to believe you… Especially, because they dont really care wether you ride or not, they just dont want to get in trouble with their supervisor. I have only needed to use this once, but it worked.
-David Kaplan
> I have blatently lied to cops telling them that a uni is not considered
> a bicycle or a vehicle under New York state law.
Better be careful. Lying about a unicycle to a uniformed officer is a
capitalized offence in New York state. They can prohibit you from
using any capital letters–even those used in your own name–for a
“very long time.”
david maxfield bainbridge island, wa
According to http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=15595 "In California a bicycle can have one wheel, but it must also have gears, a
belt, or a chain, which means that a standard unicycle is not a bicycle.
From the “Words and Phrases Defined” division of the California Vehicle Code
(http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.html/veh_table_of_contents.html):
- A bicycle is a device upon which any person may ride,
propelled exclusively by human power through a belt, chain, or gears,
and having one or more wheels. Persons riding bicycles are subject
to the provisions of this code specified in Sections 21200 and
21200.5.
This definition does include giraffe unicycles, however, which is
unfortunate because elsewhere the law requires that bicycles be able to
leave skid marks when braking. Whether multi-wheel unicycles (in which only
one wheel touches the ground, but the wheels turn against each other to
propel the bottom wheel) are bicycles is an open issue.
A rider on a standard unicycle appears to be a pedestrian. Here is the
definition of a pedestrian in California, again from the California Vehicle
Code:
- (a) A “pedestrian” is any person who is afoot or who is using
a means of conveyance propelled by human power other than a bicycle.
(b) “Pedestrian” includes any person who is operating a
self-propelled wheelchair, invalid tricycle, or motorized quadricycle
and, by reason of physical disability, is otherwise unable to move
about as a pedestrian, as specified in subdivision (a).
Thanks for posting this. I’ve known about these definitions for quite a
while, but have been too lazy to look up the numbers in the Vehicle
Code myself.
—Nathan
“tel” <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote in message
news:a1d0pr$mp9$1@laurel.tc.umn.edu…
> According to http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/newreply.php?s=&action=ne-
> wreply&threadid=15595 http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/newreply.php?s=&-
> action=newreply&threadid=15595 "In California a bicycle can have one
> wheel, but it must also have gears, a belt, or a chain, which means that
> a standard unicycle is not a bicycle.
>
> From the “Words and Phrases Defined” division of the California Vehicle
> Code ( http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.html/veh_table_of_contents.html):
>
> 231. A bicycle is a device upon which any person may ride, propelled
> exclusively by human power through a belt, chain, or gears, and
> having one or more wheels. Persons riding bicycles are subject to
> the provisions of this code specified in Sections 21200 and
> 231.1.
>
> This definition does include giraffe unicycles, however, which is
> unfortunate because elsewhere the law requires that bicycles be able to
> leave skid marks when braking. Whether multi-wheel unicycles (in which
> only one wheel touches the ground, but the wheels turn against each
> other to propel the bottom wheel) are bicycles is an open issue.
>
> A rider on a standard unicycle appears to be a pedestrian. Here is the
> definition of a pedestrian in California, again from the California
> Vehicle Code:
>
> 467. (a) A “pedestrian” is any person who is afoot or who is using a
> means of conveyance propelled by human power other than a
> bicycle.
>
> (b) “Pedestrian” includes any person who is operating a
> self-propelled wheelchair, invalid tricycle, or motorized
> quadricycle and, by reason of physical disability, is otherwise
> unable to move about as a pedestrian, as specified in subdivision
> (a).
>
> Several years ago the Gonzo Unicycle Madness club at Harvey Mudd College
> (Claremont, CA) put the legal definitions of the bicycle and pedestrian
> on their club shirts, with the title “Unicycling is not a Crime”."