Dirt Magazine - ANTI-UNICYCLIST!!!

Hi,
Just thought some people might find this interesting.

After thinking Dirt was a mature and new thinking Magazine, I sent an
email asking him if he would be at all interested in doing some kind of
coverage on Mountain Unicycling as a relative of Mountain Biking and I
got the following extremely dissapointing reply :-

"No we would not consider it aaron. If you ever get handy on a bike with
two
wheels instead of a novelty trick bike from the circus then maybe we’ll
do
something in dirt on it. Your dad should know better than to encourage
this
behaviour, it’s not big and it’s not clever. Perhaps you could learn to

juggle with juggly things and get mbuk to do a twenty page article on it

next to their how to backflip dressed as a woman article pantomime
special
chuck."
Tim March

Feeling quite shocked and angry with his patronising response I replied
:-

"I must admit I am very dissapointed with that response, I would have
thought dirt magazine would have the maturity to recognize a sport in
it's own right that's something they can't do. It is in no way related
to the circus, that's the kind of thing I would expect from MBUK. I
assumed you were a bit more free thinking to welcome a new sport me up,
to a certain extent I hope you are, it's a pretty pertheic response
that's at least as 'extreme' as mountain biking and through ignorance
not associate it with the circus but how wrong could I have been. If you
are just trying to wind me up, that is a pretty pathetic reply from a
mainstream magazine. "

After that I maybe thought I had got through to him that Mountain
Unicycling isn't just a 'circus trick', but I realised I was severely
mistaken. He sent this :-

"Attention seeking kids choosing sports that no-one in their right mind
would normally ever consider doing has not been something we have ever
supported at dirt in the same way that we would not expect to see an
article in a mountaineering magazine on someone who could climb a
mountain with an egg and spoon in his hand or hop up it one footed. The
word gimmick comes to mind. Uni cycling is not a new sport and nor is
riding one over rough ground. There is absolutely no justification for
an article of anykind. The circus is a place for unicycles and I think
you’ll find that that is where the roots of what you are doing stem
from. They certainly never took off as a form of transport did they,
except of course for attention seeking kids like yourself who want to be
looked at for being “different”. Like I said if your any good on a
proper bike let us know. If not then I’m sure that at least in the
miniscule world of uni cycling you will be uni-que. Pat romano was doing
this stuff in circuses over 25 years ago which you obviously don’t know
jack s**t about. My intention was not to wind you but to wake you up to
the fact that you are just after attention and media props and we don’t
see anything about what you are doing as In any way interesting to
anyone but yourself, a little bit like having a w**k and then asking you
mate if he liked too, which of course he wouldn’t would he. I’m sure you
are into what you do but we are not."


He obviously doesn't want to do anything in Dirt, which I completely
understand but I feel he went so far over that line, didn't he? Do other
people agree with him seriously that it's just a circus trick and should
never be given the right to be it's own sport?

He also needs to realise, unicycles were invited along time before
bicycles, they are alot simpler and yes they are a form of transport, if
not a little harder, talk about know it all, telling a unicyclist about
unicycling. . .ah well

Aaron

PS: Please feel VERY free to email him at if you would like
to show him your views on the matter


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what an asshole

I'm sure if he didn't want to do an article on unicycling he could have
just said sorry no, and kept it at that. Instead he just went over the
line.
I think I will email him, and I think we all should to show him that
unicycling is not such a 'miniscule' community.


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I'd agree with that, I've posted on a bike forum too, and being a
mountain biker aswell, and knowing a lot of mountain bikers I know for a
fact that they find it entertaining. pilock lol.
Right on!
Aaron


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obviously he was way out of line. there is no reason why he should have
been so rude.

i am not too surprised that he sees mountain unicycling as a gimick. if
you look at unicycling articles in other mountain bike magazines that is
the way that it is usually presented. also you should not assume that
mountain bikers cannot unicycle. you may be surprised at the number
that actually can. but when they learn how, it is as a gimick, which
may also have led him to this conclusion. furthermore, unless they had
KH or someone of equal incredible mountain unicycling abilities, it
would be a gimick. the stuff they have in that magazine is incredible,
far more daring than anything that has been done on a unicycle. so for
them to have a unicycling article featuring trail riding that is not to
par with the biking they feature, it would only be because unicycling is
different, and therefore would be a gimick.

it is very unfortunate that he was such an ass to you. hopefully he
will change his attitude towards unicycling in the future.


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pluto wrote:
He also needs to realise, unicycles were invited along time before
bicycles,

Eh? Invited where?

Or should that be invented? In which case, who's been playing with the
timelines?

That editor you've been communicating with certainly gives the
impression of being a prize arsehole, anyway.

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Yeah, I'm going to send one of his fellow employeys a link to the
mountain bike response.
Aaron


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I personaly think he is just a big DICK and like everyone else who
doesnt ride he is afraid of different. So if he gets this tell him to
suck a goat


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I was under the impresion that it was penny farthings, then they were
turned into unicycles and later traditional bikes now, with freewheels
and the such like, I wasn't refering to penny farthings.
Am I right?
Aaron


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I just sent this to above mentioned email:

There are some cool little trails laced throughout my community and
*all* the kids on mountain bikes who see me – an old man of 42 – riding
my knobby-tired unicycle, they’re nothing but delighted and psyched.
This suggests your readers would be psyched for a MUni (mountain
unicycle) article.




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could we spam him with hate-mail?


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I put a sock on her head

and placed her near an open staircase

I wanted to find out if dogs used echo-location to move around


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