The RTL logo.

Shouldn't the unicycle be on top of the lobster?

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steveyo said:

I was wondering what folks thought of the newly released RTL 'logo'
(http://mut.unitours.org/rtlpict/logo/RTL_Lobster_Logo1.jpg).

I have nothing but respect for Darren (whose design this is), and all
the organizers of this race. I do not, however, care for the logo. I
would have much preferred something low key to this, which I consider
mostly silly.

This event feels serious (seriously fun, but still hard-core and
serious). 'This logo'
(http://mut.unitours.org/rtlpict/logo/RTL_Lobster_Logo1.jpg) just won't
cast our race in serious light. IMO.

I'd rather have a shirt with the design at the 'top of the RTL website'
(http://www.ridethelobster.com/).

To the organizers: Please choose a less silly design for the RTL
shirt.

Yeah, fwiw, I agree with all of that. It does make it look like it's a
Saturday mornings kids cartoon more than a test of the fittest
sportsmen of long distance unicycling.

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The designer of that logo clearly forgot the red nose, comedy big shoes
and water-squirting flower, but otherwise they have clearly shown their
opinion of unicycling.

jim

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Maybe it's a cultural difference?

I found this--I guess a goofy lobster is better than #2:

Quoted message said:

Top 10 Reasons To Live In Nova Scotia

1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war... by a
moron who set a munition ship on fire
2. *Your province is shaped like male genitalia*
3. Everyone is a fiddle player
4. If someone asks if you're a Newfie, you are allowed to kick them
5. The local hero is an insane, fiddle playing, sexual pervert
6. The province that produced Rita MacNeil, the world's largest land
mammal
7. You are the reason Anne Murray makes money
8. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to wear a
kilt
9. The economy is based on fish, lobster, and fiddle music
10. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is
considered Canada's most beautiful city

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phlegm said:

Shouldn't the unicycle be on top of the lobster?

While true, that's the least of my objections.

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Choose your battles wisely, Steveyo.

You've only so many calories to expend, and there are many better
causes to champion on this planet.

C'mon, take unicycling seriously? What next, hard-core juggling?
Extreme ironing? Knitting marathons?

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I don't mind the lobster; it's not what I would do on my own, but it at
least looks like a professional graphic, unlike most of what we see on
unicycle shirts. I don't like the font much, it's way too crowded.
And the space behind the wheel needs to be transparent (background
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maestro8 said:

Choose your battles wisely, Steveyo.

You've only so many calories to expend, and there are many better
causes to champion on this planet.

C'mon, take unicycling seriously? What next, hard-core juggling?
Extreme ironing? Knitting marathons?

Oh, I haven't picked a good battle in months.

Yes, IMHO, an 800K unicycle race deserves to be commemorated by an
excellent shirt, and not a clowny one. I want to wear this shirt in my
later years (I'm already in those?) and make people gasp, not laugh. I
need the ego-stroking.

Also, I don't care all that much, but c'mon, a silly, cartoony lobster?

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Also, that is one of the most anatomically incorrect lobsters I've ever
seen. No legs? When not unicycling does he just drag himself around by
his claws or is he able to wobble around on the end of his tail which
is somehow also able to pedal?

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You guys forgot this is a unicycle race. The world, that is to say, the
market for the tourist trade Nova Scotia is hoping to generate, do not
equate unicycling with the Tour de France. Do *we* know this race is
dead serious? Yes. Does that matter to "the world"? Not a bit. They
will not appreciate a "serious" logo that contains a unicycle. It just
won't make sense. Maybe in a few years, but not today.

That's my opinion, and you definitely don't have to agree with it! I
like both logos, but the "new" one is definitely more interesting, and
to me would make for a more fun T-shirt (or jersey). Is this an
"official" logo, to replace the previous one?

Anyway, whenever I see cartoon drawings of unicyclists, I always check
out the hardware and anatomy to see where the problems are. There are
almost always problems. In this case, the lobster needs to lower the
seat a whole lot to be able to reach the pedal anywhere but at the top.
Not a big deal, it's a cartoon afterall. But I'm a unicycle nerd so
I've learned to notice such things.

Brian O. said:

Also, that is one of the most anatomically incorrect lobsters I've ever
seen.

Yup. Of course a lobster can't physically come anywhere close to
pedaling a unicycle, so we needn't go into a frivolous lobster anatomy
discussion.

When I first looked at the design the thought of "clownish" never
entered my mind. Cartoon? Yes. Also fun, good-natured, and adventurous.
Lobster + unicycle? What's it all mean? More interesting to me than
"guy riding unicycle" (the other logo).

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I like the logo and really I see nothing wrong with it.

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Well, it's cool that some people like it.

I just think an understated shirt with the stats of the race (something
like

"1st Annual Ride the Lobster"
"800K Unicycle Race Across Nova Scotia, June 2008"

and a small copy of that cyclist from the website would look nicer,
certainly from participants' perspectives and maybe even tourists'
perspectives.

Maybe this on the back:
[image: http://www.ridethelobster.com/images/sitewide/banner_RL.jpg]

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[image:
http://www.zazzle.com/rlv/isapi/designall.dll?rev=1203984404541578_11&action=realview&pdt=shirt&id=46CDBF8F-D058-4CD2-85F3-ABDD3943B0C6&style=basic_dark_tshirt&color=black&size=a_l&context=mfong&view=front&group=mens&lifeStyle=all&max_dim=400&bg=ffffff&drawareaboundingbox=true&drawsafearea=true&square_it=true&draw_relative_size=true&rvtype=product&view_auto=1.3]
[image:
http://www.zazzle.com/rlv/isapi/designall.dll?rev=1203984404541578_29&action=realview&pdt=shirt&id=46CDBF8F-D058-4CD2-85F3-ABDD3943B0C6&style=basic_dark_tshirt&color=black&size=a_l&context=mfong&view=back&group=mens&lifeStyle=all&max_dim=400&bg=ffffff&drawareaboundingbox=true&drawsafearea=true&square_it=true&draw_relative_size=true&rvtype=product&view_auto=1.3]

How's that look?

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agentQ said:

Don't quote me on that.

pilch said:

i feel like saying "go read a book u little f@ggots!" then i moon walk
out of there.

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steveyo said:

Well, it's cool that some people like it.

I just think an understated shirt with the stats of the race (something
like

"1st Annual Ride the Lobster"
"800K Unicycle Race Across Nova Scotia, June 2008"

and a small copy of that cyclist from the website would look nicer,
certainly from participants' perspectives and maybe even tourists'
perspectives.

I will point out that the pro cycling motif is not understated; it's as
loud and flashy as possible.

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I don't mind if the shirt itself is bright and flashy, I just don't want
the clowny lobby on it.

Of course I'm
a) not qualified or registered yet (may be qualifying this weekend,
though), and therefore have (and should be given) no clout whatsoever,
and
2) going to wear the thing with pride until it's totally thread-bare,
no matter what the logo looks like.

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maestro8 said:

What next, hard-core juggling?

Believe it or not, there is a kid at my school who takes juggling quite
seriously. He stretches before he juggles, and considers it a rigorous
athletic activity. I wouldn't mind this normally, but he hates on
contact juggling(which I participate in) because he feels that doesn't
have any athletic merit and is bringing juggling down as a 'sport'
🙄 .

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i think the logo should be a cartoon cowboy ridding the lobster like it
was a bucking bull

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Jedimind said:

Believe it or not, there is a kid at my school who takes juggling quite
seriously. He stretches before he juggles, and considers it a rigorous
athletic activity. I wouldn't mind this normally, but he hates on
contact juggling(which I participate in) because he feels that doesn't
have any athletic merit and is bringing juggling down as a 'sport'
🙄 .

/end threadjack

and here's 'extreme ironing' (

).
they take it very seriously.

//threadjack

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Jedimind said:

Believe it or not, there is a kid at my school who takes juggling quite
seriously. He stretches before he juggles, and considers it a rigorous
athletic activity. I wouldn't mind this normally, but he hates on
contact juggling(which I participate in) because he feels that doesn't
have any athletic merit and is bringing juggling down as a 'sport'
🙄 .

/end threadjack

i love to juggle, i dont contact juggle but think its pretty cool. that
kid at school is just saying the same garbage that jason garfield of
the WJF (world juggling federation)

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