Talk:Unicycle

message: Unicycle is also used when surveying land to measure distances walked. Of course the geologists do not sit on it, they just push it in front of them and read the revolutions from the counter. This is largely obsolete since GPS came into fashion. 195.70.32.136 15:58, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you thinking of a trundle wheel? 86.12.249.63 20:45, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I've heard many Europeans use "monocycle" to refer to a unicycle, but they were all non-native English speakers. Infotrope 23:08, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Generic Header

message: The article currently states "The unicycle's history began before the invention of the bicycle"
then goes on to explain how the unicycle developed from the bicycle.
Should this be altered?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DangerLaef (talk • contribs) 02:04, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is pretty goofy. -AndrewDressel (talk) 18:19, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: The first (main) picture (captioned "Unicycling - Harvard, Illinois - 2006") added by Cosmo1976 at 23:10 on 10 January 2007 does not appear to be of unicycles at all. Instead, it appears to depict two men riding Penny-farthings. Anyone have a better picture than that? -AndrewDressel 20:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I apologize for the mis-identification, and appreciate the correction. Cosmo1976 17:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No sweat at all. -AndrewDressel 17:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

text: However, a question comes to mind as I look over the article:  The other photograph is also a Penny-Farthing.  If my image of a Penny Farthing is inappropriate, isn't it inconsistent to have another image of a Penny Farthing? Cosmo1976 17:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The differences are that this second, remaining image is clearly labeled as that of a Penny-farthing, and it is positioned next to the paragraph that describes the theory that unicycles evolved from Penny-farthings in order to illustrate the point. Without a good lead image that clearly shows what a unicycle looks like (a temporary situation, I hope), it is not ideal, but I believe it is appropriate. Your Penny-farthing image, if apppropriately captioned, would work just as well here, but I think two would be over-kill, given the situation. -AndrewDressel 17:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Picture 

message: Any guidelines on how to split or overlap the material between these two articles? -AndrewDressel 21:13, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikibooks Unicyclopedia  

message: I've proposed creating a new project to promote and coordinate unicycle and unicycling related articles. Please comment here. -AndrewDressel 18:39, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems better suited to inclusion in the cycle, would you expect more than a dozen articles? 86.12.249.63 20:42, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed WikiProject: Unicycling  

message: This is the discussion from the bicycle page. Perhaps it applies to unicycles as well.
:Where is the mention of Leonardo Da Vinci in this article? Even IBM has a replica of his bike in their museum next to all the vintage computing paraphernalia. http://www.nkj.ru/en/news/5195/ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Root Beers (talk • contribs) 12:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps because it is a hoax: The Leonardo da Vinci Bicycle Hoax. -AndrewDressel 14:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leonardo Da Vinci 

message: I am thinking about (not quite yet proposing) separating 'Unicycling' - the history, different sports, international organisation - from 'Unicycle - design/construction, different types.
The article already has separate lists of 'types of unicycles' and 'riding styles'.  And 'cycling' and 'bicycle' have their own entries.
Any comments?
Earthlyreason (talk) 04:21, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate articles for 'Unicycling' and 'Unicycle' 

message: So where does the one-wheeled motorcycle motor-hoop fit into this series of articles?
It's much easier to just tell you to click on this link and read the article yourself:
 "Speedy New Motor-Hoop Amazes Italians", Popular Science, December 1924, page 40
 Scanned by Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=FSkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA40
DMahalko (talk) 22:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The motor-hoop as pictured on the cover of Popular Science in 1924 is a Monowheel, about which there is already an article. -AndrewDressel (talk) 23:14, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  So where does the Motor-Hoop belong in all this? 

message: Is "North shore downhill" really a type of muni riding at UNICON? Nwimpney (talk) 20:31, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  UNICON 

message: Splined cranks aren't really a recent development are they?  Archive.org has some Unicycle.com catalog pages which list the profile splined hub in mid 2002, so it's been around at least 7 years.  
Also, it says that it's a "very useful" feature without explaining how it's useful.
Nwimpney (talk) 18:27, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trials Uni, Splined hub/cranks 

message: Well that's an attempt at a rough section on mounting unicycles - if someone would like to suggest improvements that would be great, otherwise next time I drift past this page I may well move it into the article.
EdwardLane (talk) 20:56, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Please suggest improvements

message: Hi.  There are references for only a few in that long and growing list.  For most, there is currently no way to verify that they are unicyclists.  (BTW, is learning to ride and riding a few times enough to earn a spot on this list?)  Anyways, I checked each of the supporting articles and nothing on unicycling was offered there.  So as references are found, we can delete these tags.  --Ds13 (talk) 03:22, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thinking about this section, how 'uncommon' does a thing have to be before you get a 'known in other fields' section? I'm guessing there is no list of notable bicyclists known in other fields. I think I'd suggest removing all except the known as unicyclists section. EdwardLane (talk) 08:54, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Have never heard of Mike Nesmith being a unicyclist, and have been a fan of his since the sixties; is it perhaps based on scenes from the T.V. show of all the Monkees being shown riding a sort of early skate-bike, which had a single large wheel, but also two small wheels behind? Jock123 (talk) 20:59, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "Known in other fields" unicyclists

message: Unicycle quidditch has not been mentioned - though I don't know if its actually played outside the BJC ?  EdwardLane (talk) 10:37, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Team sports 

message: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18215674 this might be of some interest. EdwardLane (talk) 13:05, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC article 

message: New World record set  riders covered combined distance of 2742.5 kilometres in 24hrs EdwardLane (talk) 17:20, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  24hr distance unicycle (probably not a relay) record 

message: There should be a big section at top to answer "so exactly how does one ride one of those things?" Jidanni (talk) 10:41, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to ride? 

message: Could somebody please explain how the name unicycling is derived? If mono means one and uni means all, surely a one wheel cycle should be a monocycle.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josephina2002 (talk • contribs) 06:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: "Uni" means "one" not "all", as in "unique", "unilateral", and "unicorn". Check out the entry in wiktionary. -AndrewDressel (talk) 14:31, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicycle v monocycle 

message: ok so the lines below needed some citation - I don't think they were controversial so citeneeded template would have done I think.
pasted here so it's not lost while I think about where I can find citations for various bits of the text. EdwardLane (talk) 12:22, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  some stuff I wrote a while back got removed as unsourced - which is fair enough. 

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message: Ed Pratt is red-linked at present, but has a draft article Draft:Edward Pratt at the moment. I have put a recommendation in that article's Talk that it be moved to Ed Pratt. Its History shows it was only started in May 2020, and is mainly the work of one editor. FrankSier (talk) 19:07, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Continuing in new section Talk:Unicycle#Ed_&_Wally,_long_distance/round_the_world_unicyclists below. FrankSier (talk) 08:03, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ed Pratt 

message: At the moment the article credits Ed Pratt as "the first person to pedal around the world on a unicycle", but Ed himself considers that Wally Watts did it before him and has produced an YouTube video entitled: "He Built a Unicycle THEN Rode it Around The World in the 1970s! [Wobbling Wally Watts]" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv5XkanLuIk&t=970s . This includes a recent video chat between Ed & Wally, and reference to some info Ed found. Ed says "Canadian Walter J. Watts rode a self made 43’’ unicycle around the planet from April 1976 to October 1978. For over 2 years he pedalled alone and self supported across 16 countries."
https://www.nbcnewsarchivesxpress.com/contentdetails/200942 "Wobbling Wally Watts rides through the English countryside on a unicycle."
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/wobbling-wally-watts-on-his-unicylce-wally-from-canada-is-news-photo/1080074282 Getty Images: "Wobbling Wally Watts on his unicylce, Wally, from Canada, is on his way around the world on his unicycle.
Wobbling Wally Watts on his unicylce, Wally, from Canada, is on his way around the world on his unicycle. April 18, 1978. (Photo by Adrian Greer Michael Short/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)."
https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/1262020047108575233?lang=en Appearance on Blue Peter in 1976
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-telegram-st-johns/20090424/281676840852553 has a paragraph about Wally
FrankSier (talk) 22:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This may very well be the case but none of the sources you have provided say he completed his journey around the world. Ed Pratt having a chat with Wally Watts is just an exchange between individuals with the claim by Wally that he unicycled around the world. Having said that there is probably enough circumstantial evidence to include him if written in the correct way. Robynthehode (talk) 07:08, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Continuing in new section Talk:Unicycle#Ed_&_Wally,_long_distance/round_the_world_unicyclists below. FrankSier (talk) 08:04, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wobbling" Wally Watts 

message: There's currently an Impossible wheel page that's a little confusing because an Ultimate wheel page was merged into it and now it has little information on the impossible wheel and a big section on ultimate wheels. In thinking through the best change, I'm wondering if would be useful to convert the page into an "Other unicycle variations" page for a more thorough discussion of impossible/BC wheels and ultimate wheels, as well as the rest of the variations listed in the "Other variations" section here on the Unicycle page. Other options would be to just remove the Impossible wheel page or un-merge the pages for the impossible wheel and the ultimate wheel. Rmbradburn (talk) 02:12, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate "other variations"? 

message: I need to know 73.193.100.98 (talk) 14:34, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is unicycle hockey a real sport?