And it what way is a period of time related to a wheel with two foot plates?
The BC comic strip is set in the stone age, with the main character being a cave man. The vehicle he uses is a stone wheel with a wooden axle shaft that he stands on while rolling. It is essentially the same concept as our modern version, although standing on foot plates is easier than using just the axle ends, especially if the foot plates hang below the wheel.
Another term for BC wheel is impossible wheel, but BC has become a more popular term as more and more people have demonstrated that it is possible to master one.
Here is a link to the BC wheel is it appears in the BC comic strip:
Thanks alot, you learn something new every day!
… which works only in the first ten minutes or so after submitting the original post / reply.
Here are a few more!
What about?
UDC = Unicycle.Com
MDC = Municycle.Com in Germany
SIF = Seat in Front
WW = Wheel Walk
there are ones for one footed Wheel Walk I just don’t remember them.
I think that there was a post a while ago giving all of the Abreciations, Slang, Terms and Acronyms.
Unicorn
I got these from Unicycling for Newbies
- UPD- Acronym for unplanned dismount. in other words falling off.
- SIF- Acronym for seat in front
- SIB- Acronym for seat in back
- Coker- A 36" unicycle
- Giraffe- A tall unicycle
6 GUni- A unicycle that is geared to go faster or slower - Muni- Mountain unicycle
- Splined- A unicycle hub. it is the strongest you can get.
- Cotterless(square taper)- Another type of hub, strong but not very.
- Cottered- A very weak hub.
Different types of Unis
this is a list of unicycles that you could find yourself buying some day!
- Muni- Mountain unicycles used for offroad riding
- Trials- Used for trials and street riding
- Freestyle- used for freestyle riding
- BC Wheel- a coasting unicycle
- Ultimate Wheel- the ultimte test of balance
- Coker- the big wheel, used for speed and distance
- Giraffe- A show unicycle
I quite like TOOFENO, for one foot backwards riding. Don’t remember who came first up with it, though.
FD = Flying Dismount (resulting in road rash)
CFD = Controlled Flying Dismount
BS = Butt Shift (when you adjust your seat position while riding) Modification: BSWA (With Air) for getting off the uni and fanning out your shorts!
LBS = Lauching Butt Shift (Getting comfy on the seat as you start out, if possible) also “Local Bike Shop”
RO = Random Ow
ILC = Involuntary Loss of Control
H & F = Hans and Franz - and ILC which requires flailing arms like a muscle man.
most of these are just good fun and not used, but the LBS = Local Bike Shop is commonly used.
NAUCC , UNICON, FLUCK, CMW just to name a few abbreviations for events…
I think it was David Stone from NY, on 12 Jan 2002. It’s not an abbreviation though, nor has it widely caught on. David has also coined the term UPD.
Isn’t a true acronym when it actually makes another word. Rather than just an appr. of letters?
-Shaun Johanneson
I think an acronym is an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word - doesn’t need to be an existing word. UPD is pronounced as separate letters and thus not an acronym.
But I don’t think we need separate threads for uni acronyms and uni abbreviations.
BTW, is uni an acronym? I don’t think so even though it is an abbreviation (of unicycle) and pronounced as a word.
Yeah and it’s only good for 10 minutes then it’s permanent!
And UNINATS, the Australian one… The one I’m going to in Sydney that I can’t wait for.
Toofeno
I did make up toofeno. I think that toofeno (“tuFEEno”) never did catch on, in part, perhaps, bc it’s such a hard skill that I still can’t even do it (despite having tried it for over 5 years!). So it doesn’t come up in discussions very often. I mention it from time to time in my club notes.
I think it would be fun to have a few more terms (ollie, for example), but they usually arise naturally.
Another term I use in my notes is 1’ww (one foot wheel walk). That’s neither a true abbrev nor an acronym. tho it’s close to an abbrev.
Other abbrevs we all use include:
psi
rev and revs
rpm (revs per minute), aka ‘cadence’
… but these aren’t limited to the world of uni’ing – they’re cycling terms.
You mentioned that in said 12 Jan 2002 post, and you gave a few fun examples like “going native” (none of which have ever been used since, probably).
Sometimes people still refer to the koosh-koosh, i.e. the wheelwalk with one foot in front of the frame, one behind. Named after the sound it gives.
I once suggested the UPD should be categorised more or less as follows:
UPD = unplanned dismount. You land on your feet, catching the unicycle with your hand. It wasn’t planned but it wasn’t really a fall off.
UPD1 = you land on your feet, but the unicycle seat hits the floor.
UPD2 = the unicycle hits the floor, as do your hands and knees
UPD3 = a more spectacular version of the above, possibly with a judo roll and blood.
BDM = Ballistic DisMount = very high speed, or on a steep descent. Anything that involves a significant walk to get back to the unicycle.
BDM1 = the above, but involving a significant limp back to your unicycle.
BDM2 = presumably where your unicycle has to find its own way home because you’re in hospital.
BDSM = this is something very different from unicycling.
eBayD = a Ballistic DisMount so extreme that the executors of your estate put your uni on eBay.
wewt!