Hi, all. I am so psyched. I just found out that the NY State License plate
UNICYCLE has just become available. I have ordered it.
Does anyone else out there have a uni-related license plate? Don’t forget
to mention the state or country.
I almost ordered UNICYCL. Luckily there was a problem with my internet
order, and when I called, I found that they had an extra E lying around
and would be able to add it on. Well, not quite.
By the way, in NY State, these plates are still up for grabs:
UNICYCL
UN1CYCLE
Enjoy!
David Stone
Co-founder, Unatics of NY
1st Sunday / 3rd Saturday
@ Central Park Bandshell
1:30 start time after 11/1/01
> Hi, all. I am so psyched. I just found out that the NY State License plate > UNICYCLE has just become available. I have ordered it.
Uh oh. This means that Ken Britton may have passed away. He was the owner of
“UNICYCLE.” I believe his plate was pictured in the USA Newsletter with
pictures from the 1981 Nationals in Michigan. Ken Britton lived in
Canandaguia, and came to a few of the conventions. I have a picture of him
and Hank Luken (NJ) at UNICON I, both on their unicycles at age 69. That
would make them both nearly 90 today. I hope Ken is still around, and has
just sold his car. I hear that at the time he also had a license plate for
“JOG” and one other, so he had at least three cars then.
> Does anyone else out there have a uni-related license plate? Don’t forget > to mention the state or country.
I own UNICYCL in California. I was amazed that in the state with the most
registered vehicles, that one was unused in late 1994 when I moved here.
> By the way, in NY State, these plates are still up for grabs: > UNICYCL > UN1CYCLE
When I lived in NY I was the proud owner of UN1CYCLE. I still have the
plates. Once Ken Britton even got a parking ticket that was intended for me,
from bad campus parking in Massachusetts!
I am posting in behalf of Guy Hansen, as he has no connection to the internet currently. I just met him the other day, and saw with my own eyes his UNICYCL license plate for the state of Utah. Cool! And then he demostrated his hand-pedaling… very cool!
> When I lived in NY I was the proud owner of UN1CYCLE. I still have
the > plates. Once Ken Britton even got a parking ticket that was intended
for me, > from bad campus parking in Massachusetts!
ROTFL! I heard a story once (dt might be an urban legend, not sure)
about this guy that got a license plate with “NONE” on it. Almost
immediately he was slapped with hundreds of dollars worth of fines.
Apparently when police officers found a car violating traffic
regulations without a license plate they would write NONE on the form
where they usually write the license plate…heh!
Graham W. Boyes
Bozone (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright
ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little
sign of breaking down in the near future.
jfoss@unicycling.com writes: >I own UNICYCL in California. I was amazed that in the state with the most >registered vehicles, that one was unused in late 1994 when I moved here. > > >When I lived in NY I was the proud owner of UN1CYCLE. I still have the >plates. Once Ken Britton even got a parking ticket that was intended for >me, >from bad campus parking in Massachusetts!
That’s funny. It’s interesting that I almost got your old plate!
David
Co-founder, Unatics of NY
1st Sunday / 3rd Saturday
@ Central Park Bandshell
1:30 start time after 11/1/01
>ROTFL! I heard a story once (dt might be an urban legend, not sure) >about this guy that got a license plate with “NONE” on it. Almost >immediately he was slapped with hundreds of dollars worth of fines. >Apparently when police officers found a car violating traffic >regulations without a license plate they would write NONE on the form >where they usually write the license plate…heh!
LOL once more. But there was a sunny side to it. If he ever was fined
genuinely, he could get away with saying that it must have been a car
without a licence plate. There was the form to prove it!
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked automagically from a database:”
“Robert Hanssen, besopasnosti, informatie”
>ROTFL! I heard a story once (dt might be an urban legend, not sure) >about this guy that got a license plate with “NONE” on it. Almost >immediately he was slapped with hundreds of dollars worth of fines. >Apparently when police officers found a car violating traffic >regulations without a license plate they would write NONE on the form >where they usually write the license plate…heh!
LOL once more. But there was a sunny side to it. If he ever was fined
genuinely, he could get away with saying that it must have been a car
without a licence plate. There was the form to prove it!
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked automagically from a database:”
“Robert Hanssen, besopasnosti, informatie”
We have GO UNI in Wisconsin. Trouble is as the TCUC folks know there is a University of Northern Iowa that has UNI on their team stuff. We’ve even had people leave notes on our car and want to know what year we graduated…
Scotthue will be the proud owner of UNICYL in Wisconsin as soon as the plates come. They lost the E with his other wheel…
Hi again. Long time since I first posted this thread.
After over 15 years with the UNICYCLE plate for NY, I had to give up my cars, mainly because I’d moved back to Manhattan. At several points, I switched the plate from one car to another (a minor inconvenience, really). It started on my 2001 Aztek and moved to a 2008 Smart Car (black with yellow panels); then I transferred it to my leased 2013 Smart Car (same colors). I only needed that car for about 6 months but was stuck with it for the full three years of the lease. The lease expired in February of this year. Before I gave back the plate, I offered it to Adam Cohen because (a) he lives in NY, and (b) he’s done a LOT to help people (especially kids) learn to unicycle. If anyone deserves that license plate, it’s Adam.
I don’t actually know if he got the plate – it wouldn’t have been a transfer that I could control – but I was wondering about who has a UNICYCLE plate these days (or fewer letters, depending on the state or province you live in).
I still ride everyday – just did 31 miles this morning on my 36" guni – and I wish I could have kept a car in NYC, but it’s impractical and expensive. Instead, I have two versions of the license plate (blue letters on a white background, and blue-on-orange), and they make me smile. My whole neighborhood remembers that car; people see me riding and ask, “Are you the guy with the little Smart Car?”
