How many unicyclists out there?

Perhaps it was 2%. I never was very good at remembering numbers.

Cathy


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thinuniking wrote:
ha ha ha ha ha! i am really lucky when i started 4 others started just
down the road then phil moved "near by" then i emailed sarah miller and
found she live near me to how cool is that!
so thats
7 i can count sarah miller includes paul unsure of 2nd name now!sorry!
This means i know riders for every thing i kinda do freestyle and i
know my self
sarah and paul do cross country/hockey/freestyle/distance/muni
phil- trials and muni(downhill rider i would say!)
the 4 others general ****ing around
Ben

Who are the 4 other riders near you? If you live in Devon then in your
general area are Trevor Scofield and the Uffculme people (Amanda, Matt,
Bishop, Butty, Alick, and about 5 more who's names I'm not sure on).

I think unicyclists tend to group around areas where they've learned,
so one person learns and a small group of friends forms around them as
they are introduced to it. Its a very social activity, I think being a
lone unicyclist is a little strained... Thats why i'm trying to teach
as many people as possible!! And I've got about 4 others who know how
to ride in the society, 1 more and I can play 3 a side uni hockey!!

Loose.


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If you judge by my town:

5 (known) unicyclists / 40,000 people = 0.013%

If you only count really serious unicyclists, though, and consider that
about (maybe) 10% of them have registered on this forum, you get about
110,000 unicyclists. It's not very much.


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I was actually considering this a few days ago. It's certainly less than
a percentage point. However, I get a few people who come up to me and
mention how they can or could ride one once upon a time. And I've
taught five or six people to ride, it does spread quickly. I'd still
estimate there are no more than 100 people who can ride a one-wheeler
in my town of about 200,000 (is that how big it is? I'm not sure
anymore). Not many, to be sure.

edit: I'm probably the 'most serious' - while a few of them own
giraffes, none of them can wheel walk, and none of them practice on a
daily basis. That'd be 1/100 unicyclists.


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I agree that unicycles happen in clumps. Before I learned to ride, there
were no unis in spearfish. Now, there are 7 in my town of about 12,000.


I think it's growing, though. A club just started a couple years ago in
Rapid City, and they took like 15 people to Moab. I think clumps happen
around dedicated riders. One person will teach others to ride, and it
goes from there.


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i guess it depends on the crowd...if it were a crowd at a muni covention
then i would say 100 out of 100 but in just regular people... id say
maybe 1 in the hundred...maybe even one in a thousand


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I live in a small town of about 3500 people, and I'm pretty darn sure
I'm the only unicyclist. I'm trying to get one of my daughter's
friends to do it. He was over at my house a while back and I got him
on my unicycle and told him how to ride it, and within 10 minutes he
was riding it 10 to 15 feet! He's got the capabilities, thats for
sure, but you also have to have desire, and that is what takes work on
some people.


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ask your teacher, i think a qualification for teacher is youve tried to
learn or can and dont have one,
at least at my school


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I'm hoping to trigger a Princetown "clump". I've never seen another
unicyclist when I've been out riding, apart from when I've been on a
ride with other people. Some of the local youths seem to be gradually
moving from just taking the mick towards showing some interest, and a
couple of them have tried to ride my 20". So you never know, there
might be a unicyclist explosion in Princetown in the next few years

I don't believe Roger ever suggested 12% of the population can
unicycle. If that's true there must be some remote part of the country
(or world?) swarming with unicyclists, to make up for all the ones who
aren't anywhere I've ever been.

Even 1% seems a bit high in my opinion.


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a whole lotta peopel can ride for like 10-30 feet.. its crazy, ive met
at least ten peopel that were like... hey i can ride a unicycle, and
they can jumpon mine and ride... its prett cool


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