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2009-09-22, 12:27 PM
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muni doesn't die. people do.
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2009-09-22, 03:09 PM
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ERIC P
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I like MUni
It is a nice little contraction and it is way faster to say than "Mountain Unicycling" at least when talking to other unicyclists.
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2009-09-22, 06:15 PM
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When I grow up, I'm never gonna die
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but why don't we abbreviate freestyle or trials or anything like that!?!?!
Ugh...
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2009-09-22, 06:29 PM
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 Plus, "MUni" has been used for quite a while now, and "FRUni", "TRUni", "FLUni" just don't have the same "ring" to it, lol.
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2009-09-22, 07:18 PM
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I do agree that MUni sounds and looks kind of strange. But for communications between unicyclists it is pretty useful. I would never use that word when talking to non unicyclists either. One alternative name might be freeride, which I think sounds great. Although it doesn't really make clear that it's done on a unicycle.
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2009-09-22, 08:24 PM
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Happy Wal-Mart Employee
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Location: NYC, USA
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The committe considered your question very carefully, and it turns out that YES, it is absolutely necessary to call Mountain Uni MUni.
Settled!
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2009-09-22, 09:17 PM
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Roland Hope School of Unicycling
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MUni is a model name trademarked to the UK cycle manufacturer, Pashley. I have a Pashley 26" MUni to prove it.
As for using it as a general term - I do, although it took me a while to get into the habit of it. When talking to non unicyclists, I say I do "cross country unicycling" because that gives even the most stupid person an immediate picture of what I mean. ("Muni" must sound funny in a thick man's world.) It's only a word. You can use it or not as you choose. It's a free country as long as you conform.
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2009-09-22, 10:17 PM
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Ridin' my KH
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You called it MUni in 1965? I first rode on dirt in 1979. At that time, I think I called it "getting to where the good pavement was".
Duncan Castling is credited with coining the word Muni but I'm not sure the exact time. I added the capital U in 1995-6. This was immortalized in the Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary edition a few years back...
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2009-09-22, 10:30 PM
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2009-09-22, 11:15 PM
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Ridin' my KH
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For whatever reason, the press seems to like MUni. Except they always want to call it "MUnicycling," even when I say "Nobody calls it that except journalists." I guess hearing it come from a journalist makes it a word? Pashley "owns" Muni with a lowercase "u". Not sure how far that ownership extends, or even whether that matters since they don't seem to make unicycles anymore. Or do they?
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2009-09-22, 11:19 PM
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Team UDC Canada
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Location: Montréal
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I always say Muni when I'm with other unicyclists.
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2009-09-23, 03:02 AM
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Wannabe Flatland Rider
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: B.C. Canada
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I've never really liked the name muni. I think it sounds goofy, and no non-unicyclist know what it means. 'Mountain Unicycling' is easy enough to say.
On my crappy Norco uni, there was a sticker on it that said 'muni'. My not-so-bright friend said to me, "Hey, your one wheeled bike says 'money' on it! And it's even spelt wrong!" Not that I care, but I thought it was funny 
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2009-09-23, 05:00 AM
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nubcake
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it's clearly called muni just to p you off.
why does anything get called anything? some are named through technical reasoning and some are named through ease of use. time to cure cancer. |
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2009-09-23, 05:16 AM
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late-night rider
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I wonder why Milk is called Milk. : ) I also wondered why I capitalized that.
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2009-09-23, 05:37 AM
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working on gliding-currently at 25'
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I have many non-unicyclist friends and many of them know what Muni is when I say it. Also, we don't say Tuni, Suni, or Funi because trials, street, and flatland (or freestyle) are all one- or two-syllable words. It's easy enough to say them as they are. Mountain unicycling, however, can have 6 or 7 syllables, depending on how much you enunciate the "-cycling" at the end. Therefore, instead of saying 6-7 syllables, we say muni around other unicyclists because they know what it means and you only have to pronounce 2 syllables. That isn't because we're lazy, but because a sentence may just sound better like that. When I'm around non-riders I will always make an effort to say "mountain unicycling" because I know most of them don't know what muni is. |
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