Sorry:Unicycles ARE Circus

right now I just wanna say : [censored] off.. buyt I cant or els eill get in
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Cool video!! Thanks for sharing. I'll show my son who is a big fan of
dinos and unis!!
Thanks.

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Man, I really want to watch that video, but I can't until I get home. I
assume that your original post is rather ironic?

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The video is not worth watching......trust me

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Aw, the video is fine... if you like eyestrain.
It's cute enough for what it is. I doubt most folks on this forum are
really in it's target audience.

Anyhow, I knew a clown once who rode a unicycle. He was a Ringling
clown and his dad had built the thing he rode. It looked like a bike
and rode like a bike, but the routine involved the thing coming to
pieces, revealing itself to be a unicycle. Kids loved it. Man, that
guy could ride.

Long time ago, and far away. He's probably a jedi by now.

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Naomi said:

Sorry:Unicycles ARE Circus

You're fired! Clean out your desk; security will escort you from the
building. IT will be resetting your passwords... we don't want you
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babyivan said:

The video is not worth watching......trust me

Everybody has a different opinion of that. I thought it was cute, but
awfully long for a "demo" with kind of a one-joke theme.

Yes, the picture was so tiny I had a hard time telling if any of those
cycles were unicycles, because a number of them were bikes (penny
farthings). I'm sure there were unicycles in there as well. Not bad for
a bunch of ani-dinos.

But that music about killed me. 😠 😠 😠

Of course there have been unicycles in the circus for as long as there
have been unicycles. But rarely do you see "interesting" unicycling in
the circus. I agree I don't know if I've ever seen a clown, riding a
unicycle, in a full-on circus. Not counting people I worked with at the
National Circus Project, but we were hardly ever in full-on "ring"
circuses (In other words, 'this'
(http://unicycling.com/cccp/pix/jgretstyle.jpg) counts; Greg Milstein
and me in the Riga Circus, Latvia, 1990).

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You guys are terrible!! What grumps!

Did you happen to notice that she hasn't posted that much and maybe
this is just the reason!!

Let's take it easy on folks until they get a feel for what a bunch of
stinkers we are and come to expect it. 😉

Unicyclist.com is great, but it is scary to jump in and try to make
friends.

Enough said 🙂

The quality was poor, but dinos on unis does has some novel appeal.
Come on...

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No thats not from prehistoric times that the trailer for the next
Jurassic park. Jurassic Park 4 Another Bad Idea Invaolving Preditor
Dinosars.

Oh yeah and not circus and maestro tells me the passwords were reset.

Also oh yeah the movie reminds me of when I wore the drunk goggles at
school those are fun.

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heheh, that was sweeet. I wish I could go to a dinosaur circus, that
would be so flippin awesome.

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podzol said:

You guys are terrible!! What grumps!

Did you happen to notice that she hasn't posted that much and maybe
this is just the reason!!
Let's take it easy on folks until they get a feel for what a bunch of
stinkers we are and come to expect it. 😉
Unicyclist.com is great, but it is scary to jump in and try to make
friends.

Enough said 🙂

The quality was poor, but dinos on unis does has some novel appeal.
Come on...

Hey Podzol, don't worry, I took all but one of those as intelligent
meaningful replies. I expected some not to like the video, but thought
it worth the post because it was a little different. Most of you that
replied also appreciated that the thread title was a mickey take.
Apologies to Fossie for the music, I should have warned you....but hey!
I had to suffer it earlier. I admitted that the optical quality was
dreadful, but if I find a better version I'll add it to the thread
later

The other poster appeared to completely misunderstand the post, but
when he is old enough for kindergarten he could perhaps ask his teacher
to explain both humour, and some of the longer words used. Nice to see
that the constant practice is improving his spelling of some 4 letter
words, although others, and indeed some of the 3 letter ones still
require much hard work.

Unicyclist.com is not really scary at all, most people are very
helpful, no matter how inexperienced the newbie is. Most people who
post a question seem to be attacked by useful replies from all
directions as soon as they raise their head. Such replies are needed,
both for newbies and for more experienced riders, with some of those
needing assistance with the technical detail and usually getting it.

I post fairly infrequently because I simply do not have the time most
weeks.

Nao

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I was once unloading some stuff from my car at the drop zone at Langar
Airfield in Nottinghamshire, when a random passing skydiver spotted the
20" unicycle that also happened to be in my boot (US trunk). He asked
if he could have a go and rode off for quite some distance on a poor
quality, pot-holed car park. As I stood there with my jaw on the
tarmac, another skydiver said - "Yeah, he used to be a clown in the
circus.". Turns out he really actually was an ex-circus-clown who rode
a unicycle as part of his act. Unicycles REALLY ARE CIRCUS !!! whether
we like it or not.

Do "serious" bicycle riders worry about whether their own particular
chosen mode of transport and fun has been used in a perhaps more
flippant manner ? Of course they don't. It's just one wheel guys !!!
Get used to it.

Chris

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You're fired! Clean out your desk; security will escort you from the
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First of all, none of us denys that unicycles has been used in circus
performances..
But is all unicycling a circus-prop for that?
Isn't that up to the rider to decide?

But if i'm out riding my 29er for pizza, or meets someone out in the
woods riding my muni, or even practising seatdrag, wheelwalk, gliding
in the street by my house, is that circus? NO.
I ride because i love it, not to cheer up people around me.
Circus is something performed for people (often paying) to see
"impossible" stunts been made, or simply be amused..
As long as I don't ride my unicycle for the joy of others, i do not
think it's a circus prop.

What gives people the right to say what i'm doing is a circus stunt?
I don't come up to someone and say their clothes look funny, or that
they are bad drivers, that they are fat or if they disgust me..
And that is the very reason they shouldn't come with comments on my
prefered way to spend my time and money.

Unicycles _can_ be a circus prop..
But so can dogs, elephants, bikes, juggling, poor singing, tigers and
acrobatics...

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I would argue that there is a big difference between unicycling
(juggling, poi spinning and so on) being circus skills and actually
'being in the circus'. Actually, modern circus is a highly skilled
occupation involving dance, arial acts, gymnastics and so on. It would
be no shame to be compared to these highly skilled and very fit people.
But the problem is that people who ask if we are part of the circus are
probably referring to a stereo type of an old fashioned ramshackle
circus of unskilled clowns and performing elephants (and so are you
that react 'violently' to suggestions of uniycles being part of the
circus.

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All circuses have unicyclists, but not all unicyclists are involved in
the circus.

Hows that for short and to the point?

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Well it was short but not all circuses have unicycles...None that I have
seen have had them...well cept for circus circus tehre was a pic of one
in a poster.... but thas it...

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caw89 said:

Well it was short but not all circuses have unicycles...None that I have
seen have had them...well cept for circus circus tehre was a pic of one
in a poster.... but thas it...

You probably saw a picture of Peter Rosendahl, the first-ever world
champion. And I agree. The majority of circued I have seen did not
contain unicycling. We're going to see Coreto, the new Cirque du Soleil
show on Dec. 17, FRONT ROW! Wouldn't it be great if there were some
unicycles in there?

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1. I have never heard anyone say that unicycles have -never- been a part
of a circus.

2. The pathetic video proves absaloutly nothing.

3.Clown music is insulting to any unicyclist who knows what it takes to
get good at their sport.

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