# You can't call that a unicycle?
**URL:** https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415
**Category:** General
**Created:** [January 12, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415 "2005-01-12T17:59:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@fontiminal](https://unicyclist.com/u/fontiminal)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/1 "2005-01-12T17:59:20Z")
See this on ebay.
> **[Pardon our interruption...](https://www.ebay.co.uk/splashui/challenge?ap=1&appName=orch&ru=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fitm%2F7127106632%3FViewItem%3D%26category%3D2904%26item%3D7127106632%26rd%3D1&iid=01aa505b-ac95-401a-82ca-6c2135ec96f6&iim=aOTUuMk&iia=UPjE3LjaJ&iiz=IqZIxLjcxAJa)**
You can’t really call that a unicycle? Can you?
JJ
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### Author:  [@john\_childs](https://unicyclist.com/u/john_childs)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/2 "2005-01-12T18:09:05Z")
Nope. I’d call it a tricycle that is hard to ride. 🙂
I’m not sure if the thing has a fixed gear hub or a coaster hub. If it has a coaster hub you would not be able to ride backwards and would make riding it as a unicycle (a wheelie) very very difficult. If it has a fixed hub (cannot coast) then it might be possible to ride it as a unicycle, but would be very difficult.
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### Author:  [@fontiminal](https://unicyclist.com/u/fontiminal)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/3 "2005-01-12T18:11:48Z")
Looks like a nightmare to ride, those small wheels at the front, you would have to have a smooth surface for that, turning would be a challenge.
JJ
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### Author:  [@zack](https://unicyclist.com/u/zack)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/4 "2005-01-12T18:18:11Z")
I’v got one of those.
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### Author:  [@fontiminal](https://unicyclist.com/u/fontiminal)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/5 "2005-01-12T18:20:47Z")
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> Originally posted by zack
> I’v got one of those.
So tell us what is it like? Good, bad, ugly?
JJ
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### Author:  [@muniracer](https://unicyclist.com/u/muniracer)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/6 "2005-01-12T18:24:22Z")
its a stupidcycle!
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### Author:  [@KcTheAcy](https://unicyclist.com/u/KcTheAcy)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/7 "2005-01-12T18:33:13Z")
I guess he wants to get more that 35 this time around.
He tried to sell it earlier but probaly wasent satsfied with the winning bid. It was dicused here earlier.
[http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36948](http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36948)
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### Author:  [@KcTheAcy](https://unicyclist.com/u/KcTheAcy)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/8 "2005-01-12T18:48:15Z")
Sorry for the bad spelling and double post:
This is what i ment to say.
He tried to sell it earlier but probably wasn’t satisfied with the winning bid or has more than one. It was disused here earlier.
[http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36948](http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36948)
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### Author:  [@fontiminal](https://unicyclist.com/u/fontiminal)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/9 "2005-01-12T18:49:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by KcTheAcy
> [B]I guess he wants to get more that 35 this time around.
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> He tried to sell it earlier but probaly wasent satsfied with the winning bid. It was dicused here earlier.
> [http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36948](http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36948) [/B]
Guess so, but he or she has a good patio (behind the sutpidcycle) for short unicycling!
JJ
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### Author:  [@system](https://unicyclist.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/10 "2005-01-12T23:38:22Z")
Re: You can’t call that a unicycle?
“fontiminal” \ wrote in
message [news:fontiminal.1iryrb@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com](mailto:news:fontiminal.1iryrb@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com)…
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\> You can’t really call that a unicycle? Can you?
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You can’t really call that an opening bid either !!! That’s well over
400 dollars ( approx)
Nao
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### Author:  [@jagur](https://unicyclist.com/u/jagur)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/11 "2005-01-13T00:10:22Z")
the skate bike, Riot wheel, and that stupid monocycle with the harley biker wannabe threads are about as redundant as “wheres your other wheel” comments.
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### Author:  [@fontiminal](https://unicyclist.com/u/fontiminal)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/12 "2005-01-13T02:37:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by jagur
> the skate bike, Riot wheel, and that stupid monocycle with the harley biker wannabe threads are about as redundant as “wheres your other wheel” comments.
Funny if you feel that they are redundant that you have the need to comment \, feel free to ignore all redundant threads that pop up.
So where is your non-redudant thread?
JJ
p.s. Flaming doesn’t work.
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### Author:  [@deadlydes](https://unicyclist.com/u/deadlydes)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/13 "2005-01-13T05:34:31Z")
he has no chance of getting £250 for that thing!
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### Author:  [@jagur](https://unicyclist.com/u/jagur)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2005, 7:58am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/14 "2005-01-13T07:58:50Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by fontiminal
> [B]
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> So where is your non-redudant thread?
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> [/B]
use the search and you will find many, oh wait you cant…this thread proves that ☹
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### Author:  [@johnfoss](https://unicyclist.com/u/johnfoss)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2005, 9:49am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/15 "2005-01-13T09:49:55Z")
It’s a skate bike. That is the name of that cycle type. They have been marketed by various companies, under many different names.
I first saw them at the 1983 National Unicycle Meet in Syracuse, NY. Sem Abrahams’ family brought some, but these were much cooler than the more recent models. These were called Rodeocycles, and were from Motobecane. They had a big plastic shell over the frame, making them look much cooler. The seat was more like a unicycle seat, with a handle on the front. And the drivetrain was fixed; you could ride them backward and forward. Non-unicyclists were zipping all over the gym on them all weekend. I even have a picture of my dad on one.
Later came the LeRun, which was promoted on MTV during the late 80s or early 90s. They were much more similar to the one pictured. I will assume that if it has a brake, with lever under the seat, that it’s a freewheel model. I think I’ve seen others that had coaster brakes instead of the caliper types.
Wheel-wise, it is clearly a tricycle. Tricycle is probably not a fair name for it, since two of the wheels are so tiny. But it’s clearly not a unicycle as it has 3 wheels on the ground. With a steering system. And no fixed wheel.
If you search eBay for “unicycle” or better yet “unicycl\*” (which coveres unicycles, unicycling, unicyclist), you have seen many non-unicycles that have been called unicycles. The most annoying are all the penny-farthing bikes (usually pictues and toys, not real ones). Can’t they count wheels?
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### Author:  [@brockfisher05](https://unicyclist.com/u/brockfisher05)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2005, 11:26am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/16 "2005-01-13T11:26:57Z")
I call it retarded
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### Author:  [@system](https://unicyclist.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/you-cant-call-that-a-unicycle/68415/17 "2005-01-13T14:58:16Z")
Re: You can’t call that a unicycle?
“brockfisher05” \
wrote in message
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\> I call it retarded
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I think that is probably unfair: as unicyclists we KNOW that 5 year old
kids CAN and DO learn to unicycle. Parents in general do not, and as such
might view a skatebike as something the kid CAN learn to do. Few parents
outside of unicycling would ever consider a uni for their little
darling…obviously far too extreme and dangerous. They do not know how
wrong they are of course, but is that something to blame them for? We
should be more tolerant to others, even if they are not always tolerant of
us..
Take the mickey out of the ridiculous asking price, but why mock others,
who have different tastes to ours, and may well wish to ride and enjoy
riding something other than a unicycle?
Nao