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i have only been unicycling for about amonth and a half but i have heard plenty of remarks about unicycling and clowns. i have to say before i unicycled i did associate clown with unicycles. the first time i saw a clown he was actually on a unicycle soo.. i guess that makes sense. one thing i think that definitly makes people make this connection is childrens cartoons. you will always see people on unicycles in cartoons. one of my moms friends saw me on my unicycle and asked my mother if that was me on that "circus bike". -- plan b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ plan b's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10618 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/42626 |
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i have only been unicycling for about amonth and a half but i have heard plenty of remarks about unicycling and clowns. i have to say before i unicycled i did associate clown with unicycles. the first time i saw a clown he was actually on a unicycle soo.. i guess that makes sense. one thing i think that definitly makes people make this connection is childrens cartoons. you will always see people on unicycles in cartoons. one of my moms friends saw me on my unicycle and asked my mother if that was me on that "circus bike". -- plan b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ plan b's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10618 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/42626 |
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it frustrates me when people are not properly informed....but what can you do? -- unick 8133 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ unick 8133's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10398 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/42626 |
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usually small kids like that think of all circus performers as clowns. (I blame television) And usually kids that age only get to see unicyles when they go to a circus or see something on tv that has to do with a circus. -- happy_4_u Am I right? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ happy_4_u's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10619 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/42626 |
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I was at a Medieval Fair in a wee town near my hometown recently dressed as a knight and juggling my knives and clubs and rolling about on my unicycle (not at the same time!) Nobody called me a clown, but that might have been down to my costume. In the wee town I saw a poster for the circus, which was coming to town soon. On this poster was a BMX-er pictured just after taking off from a jump. So people think unicycles are circus bike have been wrong all along. Its the guys on BMX's who ride circus bikes, I saw it on a poster. T. -- DarkTom - fork riding a sugar unicycle -\"just eat less pies, and then the loads on your seatpost will be less.\" - johnhimsworth \"i am a girl\" - amanda.gallacher \"mud is the ink we use for bodypainting our homage to the muni sport.\" - goldenchickenii - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DarkTom's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6515 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/42626 |
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Mikefule wrote:
Most clowns do not ride unicycles. Most of the clowns that I know do. We must mix with different clowns. Most unicyclists are not clowns. I wonder how true that is. A lot of jugglers ride unicycles, to most of them it's just another prop. Many of them are professional clowns. There seems always to have been a divide between two communities of unicyclists, those who regard it as a sport (the majority of posters to rsu) and those to whom it is just another performance tool. I would guess that you tend to associate within only the former of those two communities. I offer as examples a couple of friends of mine who have never been sport unicyclists (well, I believe Kev played a few games of hockey years ago), but are quite definitely unicyclists and professional clowns: URL:http://www.topperispink.co.uk/ URL:http://www.akardo.co.uk/ I've worked with both of them as unicycling clowns, BTW. Here's Kev being one: URL:http://www.topperispink.i12.com/photo06.html In other parts of my life, I am a bit of a street performer, but today, I am dressed as an athlete, and attempting (with little success) to ride like one. What sort of athlete? If you're dressed in typical cycling team kit then I reckon people could be forgiven for mistaking you for a clown, unicycle or not ;-) So, where does this stereotype come from? I blame the greetings card industry. Should we picket a card factory? I've got a really nice postcard on my kitchen wall. It shows a clown riding a giraffe atop a walking globe, while juggling fire and balancing a spinning plate on his chin. A child is walking past completely oblivious to all of this, engrossed in an electronic game. The caption is: "The Audience". -- Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address) URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/ "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine |
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