Promoting Unicyling

Flooding YouTube and Myspace wouldn't help much...people would just
start thinking, "Geez, another unicycling video??"

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forget_your_life said:

not really,there were many more suppers since Jesus didnt acually die
but was taken down off the cross and smuggled over to Europe.

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the San Diego unicycle club have been trying to promote it as best we
can. The lbs we all go to now has a 20" lx, and 24" lx, and a 26" lx,
as well as a 19" torker DX, a 19" nimbus hoppley(YAY!), a 24" nimbus
muni, 2 puke/booger colored secial edition 16" cx's they haven't been
able to sell, and a bunch of unicycle hardware including two 24" by 3"
duro wildlifes, a 24" by 3" gazz, 3 nimbus gel seats, 2 KH seats, a
bunch of seatposts, a maxxis CC and replacement lift handles. they also
hope to get a KH trials and freeride in sometime soon.

In one week they sold 5 torker Lx's and a KH freeride!!!!!!!!!

-miles

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trials_uni said:

Where did you hear that Bedford unis are not strong? They are the best
thing since sliced bread!!

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also, youtube is already flooded with unicycle videos🙂

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trials_uni said:

Where did you hear that Bedford unis are not strong? They are the best
thing since sliced bread!!

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cmsustud19 said:

I wonder how many of you would agree that the unicycle.com has almost a
complete monopoly in America, and there is alot of room for more
competition.

Abso-FREAKING-lutely! They have the market CORNERED! We need waaaaay
more competition!😄

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cmsustud19 said:

I wonder how many of you would agree that the unicycle.com has almost a
complete monopoly in America, and there is alot of room for more
competition.

Not really... out of all the unicycles my family has, and friends
around here we taught to ride, only my qu-ax trials came from UDC.

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Quoted message said:

including two 24" by 3" duro wildlifes, a 24" by 3" gazz,

Quoted message said:

maxxis CC

thats not unicycle hardwhere

Quoted message said:

Abso-FREAKING-lutely! They have the market CORNERED! We need waaaaay
more competition!

why and no

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sorry for the comfusion I meant *unicycle related*🙂

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trials_uni said:

Where did you hear that Bedford unis are not strong? They are the best
thing since sliced bread!!

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I'm just gonna throw out the Illinois point of view on the monopoly of
UDC. DEFINITELY!! And I can assure you we don't have a unicycle club
promoting anything. And if anyone questions UDC's monopoly, just ask
yourself why it has it's on accrynim.

But I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Having more competition in the
market won't result in competitive pricing. The small market (compared
to biking and others) that exists is one based on quality, not cost.

But I must say that I would enjoy a growing popularity!

-Brian

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i understand what you're trying to say.... but...

do you remember when skateboarding was a minority? you never saw "no
skate boarding" signs. then one day, it became hip and cool to skate.
everyone skated. it became commonplace. then you go into a store, and
they had all these crappy skateboards. tv commercials and were loaded
with all these posers and they had like kids with skateboards modeling
clothes in J.C. penny catalogs... cause the marketing dept "knows what
kids want", even though the ad execs are always like 5 years behind
what's really going on... etc.
tony hawk was a household name, and on the cover of Good Housekeeping.

everything got so saturated, and it really kind of got ruined. it took
all the mystique out of it.

do you really want to go into Wal-mart, K-mart, Target or whatever, and
see a bunch of crappy unicycles? your town littered with little kids,
all wearing their imitation sixsixone pads, riding some [censored] uni they
got at Walgreen's, with teenage mutant ninja turtle graphics on the
frame?

kind of cheapens the whole thing...

do you want awareness?
do you want it to spread through suburban america like a disease?
do you want Kris Holm action playsets?
do you want a Razor scooter?
do you want to "Do the Dew" on a unicycle?

maybe i missed the point...

oh well,
enough of my restless banter...

october

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thanks, new kid...

i'm glad someone finds my rants entertaining...

always the cynic,

oct.

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octobers 100% correct, although a ninja turtles uni would be pretty damn
sweet (thats my opinion) but ya. i dotn see unicycling getting too
overrated ever. but you never know, and that would suck if it did

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i think the best way to promote unicycling is to go out and ride. show
off to people and let them take interest in the the sport.

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cmsustud19 said:

I wonder how many of you would agree that the unicycle.com has almost a
complete monopoly in America, and there is alot of room for more
competition.

I know it's not US but Bedford is just up north a bit🙂

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Agreeing all the way with October, although I'm from Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, and not the USA.

tomtrevor enlightened us with:

Quoted message said:

i think the best way to promote unicycling is to go out and ride.
show off to people and let them take interest in the the sport.

Definitely. I know that's how I started. I was thinking about getting
a unicycle, then one day I saw a girl "walking" her dog on a unicycle.
That triggered me into actually buying one. A week later, my
girlfriend got one too, and now the kids in the neighbourhood want to
get unis too.

That's promoting unicycling!

Sybren
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safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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i dont know what to do..

I ride everyday on the streets, i talk to the people.. i point where to
buy unis.. i also did a wekly unicycling meeting..

but peoples just dont care...

the only guys who cares is the bmx flatlanders...

iam kind tired to try to promote this...

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picado said:

i dont know what to do..

the only guys who cares is the bmx flatlanders...
\
iam kind tired to try to promote this...

Stay tuned at the uniconnews, and wait for the episode that has the
inteview with Mat Hoffman (who I interviewed in Germany last weekend on
THIS topic).

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I am really glad almost everyone got the point of this post and agrees.

The problem with trying to just ride to promote, is that seeing someone
on a uni does not help them purchase one (it does help plant a seed).

I think for you on the west coast you may not see the problem as much.
But here in the midwest even Bike shops are rare and I live 7 miles
from downtown kansas city.

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october said:

do you want Kris Holm action playsets?

Hell yes.

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