I got into an argument with a friend (who should be reading this) about
what one of my unicycles is called whilst at the Bradford convention
this saturday. We figured the easiest way to resolve the problem was to
post here and ask for your collective wisdom. We can then laugh at me
for not knowing what it is called when I own one, or else laugh at his
weird name for it
As Iām writing this, I might as well drop into the conversation that I
managed to free mount it on saturday and can now do so reasonably
consistently. I can also idle a little - around 6/7 forwards/backwards
rotations of the pedals, but only from a wall - if I try and stop and
idle I come straight offā¦
No better way to tap our collective wisdom than through a RSU Google Groups search.
If a cycle has two wheels, there are basically three options for their relative location:
A. one front, one rear: bicycle, or bike
B. one left, one right: dicycle
C. one top, one bottom as in the present question:
two-wheeler (245)
two-wheeled unicycle (65)
double wheeler (16)
stacked uni (6)
two-wheeled uni (6)
two-wheeled giraffe (4)
stacked unicycle (2)
The numbers in between brackets are the number of hits Google reports. Note that Google doesnāt distinguish between a dash (-)and a space ( ) between two words. The spelling chosen in the above list is the most common, I think.
There are possibly more names for such a thing but these are the ones I could think of.
I had never heard that until this afternoon (itās 5 pm here), when I read that possible name on your website describing your two-wheeler riding. But imagine what happens if you search for the word ātwiceā. I tried!
Klaas Bil
Edit: you also mentioned ādouble deckerā on your site, but this gets 0 counts on rsu as the name for the thing weāre after. There were some ādouble deckerā hits but they referred to buses. - KB
I think iām going to look like a bit of a pillock when I let you know what i was INSISTING on calling itā¦ Doesnāt appear on any google search, even with different spellings. Think i may have invented a new wordā¦
BTW I had a go on it @ Bradford and its impossible to ride!
Klaas Bil wrote:
> Updated list:
>
> * two-wheeler (245)
> * 2-wheeler (102)
> * two-wheeled unicycle (65)
> * double wheeler (16)
> * 2wheeler (9)
> * stacked uni (6)
> * two-wheeled uni (6)
> * biverticycle (5)
> * two-wheeled giraffe (4)
> * twowheeler (3)
> * stacked unicycle (2)
> * two-stack uni (1)
>
> As before, this is based on Google Groups restricted to RSU. Just to
> confuse anyone as to what THE name is for, errr, such a thing.
>
> Roger can you resolve your argument with this?
Well I think soā¦ Andy came up with āinverticycleā, for some unknown
reason. Myself, I use of the three at the top of your list. inverticycle
doesnāt appear on google at all.
Cheers,
Roger
Nottingham One Day Juggling Convention
5th March 2005 - 10am-Late
Weāve never seen another one like it. Iām told that the musical group The Monkeys were pictured riding these on the front cover of one of their albums once.
The Monkees did have something that looked like that but it would have to be at least 40 years
old to be like theirs.
The ones they rode had a mag wheel. I have some
cards (like baseball cards) with pictures of the Monkees riding them.
The pedals were on the big wheel like a tricycle.
The little wheels were out back on the ones they rode.
There is also a Skate-Bike that looks like that as well. The difference is that the skate bike rides in the other direction. The rider sits over the bike wheel on the back and the skateboard trucks/wheels are out front. The pedals would be between the bike wheel and skateboard wheels mounted in a bottom bracket like a bicycle.
They were sold by many different companies under many different names. Some had hand brakes, some had coaster brakes. At the trade shows they even had videos of riders doing neat stuff on them.
They never did take off like the aluminum folding scooters did a few years ago.
They cleared them out at Big Lots 10 years ago for 10.00 or less when they couldnāt sell them anymore.
If you can post another clearer brighter picture of yours, that would be cool.
āRoger Lightā <roger.light@DOESNTLIKESPAMnottingham.ac.uk> wrote in message news:ctkrem$7mm$1@oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.ukā¦
> Hi,
>
> I got into an argument with a friend (who should be reading this) about
> what one of my unicycles is called whilst at the Bradford convention this
> saturday. We figured the easiest way to resolve the problem was to post
> here and ask for your collective wisdom. We can then laugh at me for not
> knowing what it is called when I own one, or else laugh at his weird name
> for it
>
It was a DM two wheeler. One hell of a well built machine, beautiful
piece of kit, and the one I will go for when I eventualy, if ever, get
good enough, brave enough or daft enough to try one.
I have never had any qualms about calling these multiple stacked wheeled things āunicyclesā because the number of wheels they have notwithstanding, they ride with only one wheel in contact with the ground and behave like unicycles - or so I imagine, since like Naomi I have as of yet never been good, brave, or daft enough to try one.
Iāve not seen the Monkeysā picture, although Iād like to. The unit we have is pretty old, but Iām not sure exactly how old it is. The seller years ago told us that he had it in his attic for years and also had parts to another one.
Iām familiar with the other unit you mentioned, a popular brand is LeRun. Iāve sat briefly on one but it complained so I got off. The boys have ridden them with limited success. They are cute to look at at first but they quickly go into hibernation in the backs of garages for lack of functionability.
Iāll try to get a couple pictures of our Uni-skate and post them here.
