Why..

[Jayjae13]

Why do we all unicycle? I do it for pleasure just relaxes me also it is so entertaining to think to yourself you can balance on one wheel. not two just one. I really dont know why i am asking this question i just thought of it and had to post it heh thanks

                              ---Josh

[harper]

I do it because it is so practical. Sometimes I do it because it is fast and efficient but mostly because it’s so practical.

[system]

Re: Why…

Why do I unicycle?=20

1. It was a “challenge”.
2. Only the “few” can do it. OF COURSE, anybody can do it with enough =
   practice, but the fact still remains that only a super fraction of =
   society can ride a unicycle
3. To grab a girls attention. It REALLY works! It’s the =
   ONLY time I can EVER get a girl to notice me.
4. It’s the only way for to exercise. It gives me a reason to “get out =
   of the house”.

[Keithmj]

Why ask Why? For the challenge…

Anybody can uni, only a few will.

Not everyone can do it. Big shot on block? Just wanted to.

[andrew_carter]

Why I started:

• I watched New World Disorder

Why I continue to unicycle, and will continue to unicycle (in no particular order):

• It’s a hell of a lot of fun
• Training’s fun
• For the challenge
• It’s interesting
• It’s exciting
• It’s a great way of relieving stress
• It’s relaxing
• It’s just really, really great

Andrew

[djm]

Re. Why.

5 Reasons Why I Started unicycling.

1: I first saw the unicycle since I was 4 years old.
2: I first saw The Allison’s Juggling Family at a Shopping Centre in Burwood Westfield in Sydney NSW.
3: I’ve always wanted a unicycle since I was 6 years old and never had one until I’m 27 years old.
4: Why I love them; because I think they unreal, Realistic, Awesome, Totally Fun, Freedom, do 500,0000 Tricks on them,
Easy to carry and transporting is easy as pie.
5: I call my Unicycle, “The Love Bike”.

David.

[UniBrier]

Originally posted by djm
5: I call my Unicycle, “The Love Bike”.

So do these guys! . Its a pretty cool tandem concept, at least they have the same rider to wheel ratio.

Back on topic: I ride to meet friends and influence people.

[andrew_carter]

I call my Unicycle, “The Love Bike”

That’s an awsome name!

[djm]

Originally posted by andrew_carter
That’s an awsome name!

I name that, due to a song Andrew. The Love Bike. (The Unicycle Song) I wrote that in 1987 to aim at a musical I’ve written. So far I got at least a half a dozens of Circus Songs including 6 Unicycles Songs I’ve written between 1984 to present. There could be more, I’ve run out at the moment. Oh WAIT A MOMENT There’s one; Unicycle Blues. I’ve better write that one out now.

David.

[Sofa]

It’s the most fun way to stay in shape.

[foolish]

I learnt so that I could understand what on earth you lot are all on about!! (not really, I learnt coz i saw some ppl at our juggling club and thought it looked like fun.

I do it because:

It is fun.

relaxing, challenge, good exercise, always new stuff to try.

[tugboat]

i do it to show up the cocky skateboarders… i know i’ll never be as good as them on a skateboard, so i show them up by jumping down 9 stairs on one wheel when they can barely do it on 4.

later, kevin

[system]

Re: Why…

> Why do we all unicycle? I do it for pleasure just relaxes me also it
> is so entertaining to think to yourself you can balance on one wheel.
> not two just one. I really don’t know why i am asking this question i
> just thought of it and had to post it heh thanks

Knee rehab.

Also, Grendel has to kill something once in a while.

[Borges]

Reason nr 1:
The amazing feeling when you are practicing something and suddenly you can feel yourself do it in perfect balance. With unicycling you can really feel yourself improving.

[Uniwitold]

After my relative retirement I needed a challange. My knees were no good for windsrfing any more. Then after a bit frightening selfeducation it become a passion rendering all the goodies mentioned by the Others, baring in mind my ‘young’ age.

[Mikefule]

I started many years ago because unicycling sort of naturally went with my Morris dancing, and a few ‘circus skills’ I did at the time. (I was a 3rd rate juggler and I did a bit of fire eating.)

Even then, the expression which ‘sold’ my first unicycle to me was the reference in the Pashley catalogue to ‘unicycle yomping’ on a UMX - an early reference to what we now call MUni.

Only a year ago, I realised I was putting on weight and not getting any fitter. I thought of bicycling, but I had nowhere convenient to store one. I then looked seriously at folding bicycles, but couldn’t find them inspiring. Then I remembered I had a unicycle which I only rode once or twice a year.

Searching the internet revealed to me the variety of unicycles available, and the variety of unicycling skills or disciplines. Before I knew it, I had bought a 26 inch MUni, followed by a new 20 for performing. Then by lucky accident, I bought a 24, then the Coker was inevitable, and then the 28 to complete the set. And I forgot to mention the 1959 vintage 20 I bought from a man in a pub.

And why do I do it now? Because it’s good fun, it’s good for the body and it’s good for the brain. And there are routes I ride regularly which would be short and boring on a bicycle, and long and boring to walk, but they are just the right length, and challenging, on a unicycle. A unicycle gives you the chance to make the most of what the terrain offers. Even a rutted track offers different challenges depending on which direction and which side of the track you choose to ride.

And it’s fun.

[Ben_Plotkin-Swing]

I enjoy unicycling for many reasons. I like getting out in the woods on my MUni. I like the excitement of a good technical downhill run, and difficult hill climbs. I like that its unique, and most people don’t see it everyday.

Despite all that, the real reason I’m passionate about unicycling is the process of learning a new skill. The moment when something I’ve been working on clicks for the first time is what I live for. I just had that experience earlier today nailing a sidehop I’ve been working on for months, and I’m still feeling happy about it. Unicycling provides endless opportunities to discover new things you can do.

Ben

[unicycle_x]

Evolution

Hi,

I know the exact reason why we unicycle. You would think it would be more obvious?

It is evolution! Think about it. Human beings started are apes; with slouched/arced backs. Then they became upright human beings. It is the same with unicycling. Before the uni was the bike. When you are riding a bike you are slouched, this causes back acks. Then we evolved, the uni was bore, and no more back achs. We ride upright now, no like the mtb-ers.

-Budd-

[dazedNcontused]

Remember that great feeling you had as a kid when you first rode your bike across a parking lot? Me neither.

I started unicycling to get that feeling of mastering (or managing) something new and tricky. I keep doing it because it’s fun, and there’s still lots of new stuff to try.

Tim

Budd might like this…

[unicycle_x]

WOW, thats an awsome picture. That’s exactly what i’m talking about. Do you mind if I put it into my gallery?

-Budd-