Hey all,
I was just curious to know, does anyone name their unicycles? If so, what are they? And why did you choose them?
I call my first and only (so far) unicycle Maria. I chose this name because there’s this incredibly cool Greek woman I’m acquaintances with, and it seemed like she needed something to be named after her. So, voila! I now have a little piece of her with me wherever I go.
Jess
my unicycles name
well i sometimes call my unicycle, That Unicycle, Mr Unicycle. I usually do this, when im talkin to soimone, in person, and i think thas all i have to say for now,
Now I’ve got the love theme from Westside Story running through my head…
Maria
I have a unicycle named Maria
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me
Maria
I just rode a unicycle named Maria
And suddenly I found
How wonderful a sound
Can be
Maria
Say it loud and there’s music playing
Say it soft and it’s almost like praying
Maria
I’ll never stop saying
Maria
I call my unicycle many things. None of which are appropriate to reproduce here. I know, I know, it’s like when tennis players throw their raquets: “It’s not the raquet that sucks, buddy.” The unicycle’s vow of silence makes it the perfect target for verbal abuse.
Diddn’t rage against the machine write a song about a uni named maria:
The sun is ablaze as maria’s wheel
Thouches the surface of the sand
Of the northern shore
As uni contraband
or something like that.
-gauss
I have a wide viraty of names for my unicycle (and even more if I take off the fork and make it an ultimiate wheel) but none are decent for anyone to read. Howeverif you aren’t christian or have some humor, I call my unicycle satian.
Re: naming your unicycle.
In article <unijess.5wlpm@timelimit.unicyclist.com>,
unijess <unijess.5wlpm@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
)
)Hey all,
)I was just curious to know, does anyone name their unicycles? If so,
)what are they? And why did you choose them?
Unicycle #1 (the 24" United trainer I learned on): “Koyaanisqatsi”,
“Koyo” for short. Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning “life
out of balance”. (And an interesting Godfrey Reggio art film with
music by Philip Glass).
Unicycle #2 (24" Miyata Deluxe): “Kobe”. I use it for uni basketball,
and it fits with “Koyo”.
Unicycle #3 (29" Pashley tourer): “La Machine”. “Machine” was the first
word I thought of to describe this monster. It’s not a unicycle, it’s
a road processor.
The beat-up old POS 20" I was given by a friend has remained nameless so
far. It’s hard to name them until you have a relationship with them–Kobe
was unnamed for a year or more.
-Tom
24x3 inch muni = “Mr. Beefy”. I call my Coker "the wheel " or “big Wheel”. When ever I ride it, I think of the the wheel song by the Grateful Dead.
The name for my Uni changes all the time most of them invole curse words when things arnt going right, or when I cant do a trick I have been praticing for I while…
Re: naming your unicycle.
My 20" is named Charly, after the Prodigy song.
My 26" Semcycle is named Sheila.
My Hunter is named Minerva, after the Greek goddess, because she does a little of everything and does it well.
The first two names just sort of came to me when I looked at my unicycles one time, so I stuck with them.
Re: naming your unicycle.
unijess wrote:
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> Hey all,
> I was just curious to know, does anyone name their unicycles? If so,
> what are they? And why did you choose them?
It’s funny you should ask. My daughter and I are just learning to ride,
and last night we christened our new one wheeled friends, “Tail
Torquer”, and “Nut Buster”.
Jason
Re: Re: naming your unicycle.
good name…
My 20" United/Monty setup is called the “Black Panther”
I painted the chrome United frame black. Added black spokes. Threw on some black Wellgos. Bought a Profile hub/crank setup with black cranks. Added a red carbon fiber air Miyata seat with a black roach cover. And added a “racing” pinstripe around the top of the frame for some style points. There’s a few pictures of it in the gallery…
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/Black_Panther_Trials
That’s before the spoke/cranks/hub upgrade.
Re: naming your unicycle.
I call my Muni “The Beast”
Its big, butty and the frame cost me $666
Otherwise, I have always referred to my unis by brand:
my sem, my miyata, my dm etc.
Re: naming your unicycle.
After falling in love with OE-Quotefix, I read what unijess wrote:
> Hey all,
> I was just curious to know, does anyone name their unicycles? If so,
> what are they? And why did you choose them?
I named my Coker Hilda…well, for obvious reasons! <winks!>
Graham W. Boyes
Re: naming your unicycle.
I call my schwin “schwin” I called my 20" savage, “my 20”. the 24" cyclepro
i had before taht, i called “my uncycle” because it was my only one. I will
likely call my united/monty trials uni (when i get the money together), my
“monty” perhaps “the trials one”. when i drove, i refered to my car as, “my
audi” (audi’s are amazing cars, i highly recomend them). I cal my
girlfriend “Q”
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trevor andersen
My father’s old 24" royce union- Grandpa
My 20" Sem- The Taxi
My father’s 20" Sem- THe donor ( I take parts I need for my uni)
My 24" Sem XLW with 2.6 Gazz- Rambo
My 5’ Savage- Rob
My Coker- Bigfoot
-David Kaplan
My 24" Bedford is Hiro and my old Norco is Norco.
I never thought of naming them until I got my Pashley MUni. After I rode it for the first time, I decided it was definitely Sam. I decided immediately that this was the Samuel L. Jackson of unicycles. It’s a beast with an understated elegance. And when it hits a bump, it rolls over effortlessly and then says “Oh I’m sorry, mother******, was that supposed to be difficult!”
So, my 26" Pashley MUni is Sam.
then I decided my 24" United needed a name, so I just decided on Eunice.
RE: naming your unicycle.
> I call my schwin “schwin” I called my 20" savage, “my 20”.
That’s more along the lines of my names:
DM
Schwinn Giraffe
Carbon MUni
Trials uni
Steve Howard MUni
Freestyle
Red Miyata
Handlebar uni
12" (or Baby uni)
Big Wheel
9 footer
Hamilton’s 5 footer
Artistic bike (oops)
Others are named by their brand, such as Loyd, Univega, Cyclone, Troxel,
Stelber, Concord, Oxford, etc.
Two others have unique names because they are unique cycles:
Stay on top,
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
jfoss@unicycling.com
IF IT DAMAGES PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY,
SKATEBOARDING
AND UNICYCLING
IS A CRIME
(Mind where you grind)
Re: naming your unicycle.
> 2. Excessory Cycle, a 24" Schwinn coated with an excess of bike
accessories.
> With a little luck (and a bunch of time) I’ll have this thing up and
running
> for the first time in 5 years for the Torchlight parade in Seattle!
> Picture: http://www.unicycling.com/garage/special.htm
> (scroll halfway down)
Evilly quoting without permission from the website:
“The “Excessory Cycle.” Built by John Foss in 1981, it’s what you get when
you give a unicycle the works. Bells, lights, horns, pump, water bottle,
rack, speedometer, fender, hood ornament, saddlebag, turn signals, safety
flag, etc. All bike accessories from bike shops. The hard part was fitting
everything on there and having it still be rideable! More recently, this
unicycle had a spectacular tire blowout during the Sacramento Lights Parade
in September, 1996. This was the tire that was on it when it was originally
assembled. Taking it apart to change the tire will involve completely
dismantling everything attached above the fork crown and unwrapping a lot of
wires; a task John is not looking forward to . . .”
Let’s see that list again, shall we?
“Bells, lights, horns, pump, water bottle, rack, speedometer, fender, hood
ornament, saddlebag, turn signals, safety flag, etc”
I’m impressed. Really, really impressed. Trying to figure out how to fit
all that on a Coker… maybe not the fender, bells or horns (I scream good),
hood ornament (!), saddlebag, or turn signals… you can actually ride that
thing? Even with saddlebags?!
Did I mention I was impressed?