I was just informed yesterday that there has been an online club (on the facebook) created that is anti-unicyclist and more specifically “wants to put a stick in his (my) spokes when he is riding to class.” I am the only person on campus who rides a unicycle to class. I go to Purdue University and the reaction to me riding to class on it everyday rain or shine, hail or snow, is very positive. I was surprised to find that no less than 400 people from the campus here alone have joined the club. I find it funny. I’m not worried because I know even I would join the club if i wasn’t a unicyclist because it is a very funny and obscure type of club to create. I wonder if any of my friends have joined?
Anyways, I just thought this was kind of funny and wanted to share it.
I applaud you for your daily riding and for eliciting such reactions, positive and negative, from so many. It’s good to get people thinking. And if you do happen to feel truly threatened in any way, consider contacting Hell-on-Wheel (HOW) or SWAT (Single Wheel Attack Team (?) ) or some of the other unicycle toughs on these boards. I’ll bet they’d be willing to provide security.
By the way, it should be “no fewer than 400…” and the second “too” in your sig needs another ‘o’.
hell on wheel does have protection services, but as of now we are in the middle of an all-out war with some martians that thought, incorrectly of course, that they could enslave mankind. we just won a series of important battles and i believe that victory is in sight within the next few months. try to fend of your enemies until then, when we can send a few riders to your aid.
I rode my uni to class at SIU, Carbondale.
I never was assaulted.
But, that doesn’t rule out it couldn’t have happened.
(I was in fights for less than that in college (drunken stupidity))
So, I would keep your ‘anti-uni-radar’ ON.
(there are idiots in this world, esp. in college)
The reason they have so many peoplle is because they are just like the neo-nazi’s preying on impressionable people with nowhere else to go. I say we curbstomp’em… uni style!!!
one guy in our club had an altercation recently. he was riding down some stairs and the unicycle got away from him and almost hit a few people. One of those people got pissed and i guess a shouting match ensued, and threats were issued etc. seems he wasn’t super nice about almost slamming an out of control unicycling into strangers. i’ve never had a problem, just morons asking about where my other wheel went and if its hard etc.
i would definitely join the club, if i hadn’t formed my own anti-facebook club. I’m not a member of the facebook so i can’t join the club. i really haven’t joined because people end up wasting so much time on it and i don’t want to get sucked in. if i’m spending time on message boards, then i want to spend it here. I do want to read their messages though. I’m curious as to what exactly they chat about. I’ll try to read them on one of my friends accounts and let you guys know if there is anything funny. I expect that it will be pretty funny.
Facebook is set up at nearly every large college in the US, I got to Pitt, I just did a basic search for unicycle on the Purdue server, the Unicycles Suck club was listed so I checked the membership to see if I could join. Apperently you cant join cross university clubs, drat.
For others on the forum on theFacebook dont shoot me a friend invite unless I actually know who you are… Thanks
Some little sh*ts attempted to wrap me up in the remains of a cassette tape the other day. They hadnt quite realised that unicycles go quite alot faster than they can…
i’m 6’4 and 190lbs. i ride with a few guys roughly that big. i did some martial arts for a while with a guy who unicycles tha’s 6’5 320 lbs and has 2 black belts is different martial arts. While us larger folks are in the minority overall and certainly in unicycling, we do exist.
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