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  1. Does anybody have an idea of how many unicyclists there are in any given
    crowd of say 100 people? Is unicycling still something where you go out
    and people will say "wow!" or will they just say, "hey! I just learned
    to go backwards, what about you?" Basically...is it still WOW, or is it
    just SO WHAT?

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  2. In Sanbornton NH (aka, Middle o' No Where) there's at least one, forget
    his name, and kinda me when I visit my parents and work there on
    weekends / summer. Just riding around the Bishop's U. Campus I've met 2
    other's who know how to uni, and one active uni'er.

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  3. its still a WOW, unfortunately. I live in the 2nd biggest city in
    maryland, and i have yet to meet another unicyclist. The odds of finding
    another unicyclist are a lot less than 1/100 if you ask me. i'd say
    1/1000 have tried it, between 1/5,000 and 1/10,000 are active
    unicyclists. those numbers are in no way accurate, they're just my
    general idea. Regardless, if you do stumble arcross another unicyclist
    in your area, consider yourself very lucky! 🙂

    -grant

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  4. tennisgh22 said:

    *its still a WOW, unfortunately. I live in the 2nd biggest city in
    maryland, and i have yet to meet another unicyclist. The odds of
    finding another unicyclist are a lot less than 1/100 if you ask me.
    i'd say 1/1000 have tried it, between 1/5,000 and 1/10,000 are active
    unicyclists. those numbers are in no way accurate, they're just my
    general idea. Regardless, if you do stumble arcross another unicyclist
    in your area, consider yourself very lucky! 🙂

    -grant *

    You really think there are 800,000 active unicyclists? If 1/10000 was
    accurate, we should be able to get a pretty good group going here in
    Atlanta. Out of 400 avtive unicyclists, we should be able to get 20-30
    to show up. Of course that would be assuming your numbers were
    accurate.

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  5. Wow, I went riding last Sunday, and I met 6 people who could unicycle
    and one more who learned in 5 minutes. There are at least 7 people who
    can unicycle who live within a mile of me.

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  6. I don't know. Apparently there is a lady on the other side of my fair
    town who is training to be a clown so when people see me they say "Hey
    do you know the unicycle lady?" To which I reply "Yes, we all know each
    other." But I've really never met her.

    And I live on a street where my sister and I are the oldest (at 17 and
    16 respectively) and the rest of the kids aren't older than 10. Today a
    youngin no older than 6 said "Hey get back here circus boy!"

    I suppose he wasn't impressed as his tone was that of a mother about to
    punish her young with a bull whip.

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  7. Quoted message said:

    How many unicyclists out there?

    I know of seven.

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  8. I think that this should be a required question on the 2010 U.S. census.
    Now who should we write to in order to get this to happen?

    At least they should include it in the more detailed questionaire which
    is sent to something like every hundredth household.

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  9. I know of 8 in my town (and county) who have ridden or still do ride.
    But I think there's probably more. My town's (and county) population is
    about 20,000, I think. That equals 1/2500.

    David

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  10. grey said:

    *I think that this should be a required question on the 2010 U.S.
    census. Now who should we write to in order to get this to happen?

    At least they should include it in the more detailed questionaire
    which is sent to something like every hundredth household. *

    Write your congressman.

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  11. 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 pissing around
    Ben

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  12. Where I live it is still very much a wow thing, especailly outside my
    group of friends (most of whom have converted to unicycling)
    I think i have met 2 other unicyclists outside peolpe i know well! not
    all that many but is more common then 10 years ago!

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  13. Unicycling spreads quickly. My friend and I started a little over a year
    ago and now we have taught about 15 people to ride in the Philly metro
    area.

    Also, Tennisgh22, you should try to contact Trip. He goes to American
    University I think. In D.C. Near you. Accountname: Muniracer.

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  14. tylercox said:

    Does anybody have an idea of how many unicyclists there are in any
    given crowd of say 100 people?

    None.

    In a crowd of 500, one.

  15. bugman said:
    tennisgh22 said:

    *its still a WOW, unfortunately. I live in the 2nd biggest city in
    Maryland, and i have yet to meet another unicyclist. The odds of
    finding another unicyclist are a lot less than 1/100 if you ask me.
    I'd say 1/1000 have tried it, between 1/5,000 and 1/10,000 are
    active unicyclists. those numbers are in no way accurate, they're
    just my general idea. Regardless, if you do stumble across another
    unicyclist in your area, consider yourself very lucky! 🙂

    -grant *

    You really think there are 800,000 active unicyclists? If 1/10000 was
    accurate, we should be able to get a pretty good group going here in
    Atlanta. Out of 400 active unicyclists, we should be able to get
    20-30 to show up. Of course that would be assuming your numbers were
    accurate.

    Yours too. There are 4 million people in Atlanta? There aren't 8 billion
    people in the world, so I don't know where you got 800,000 from.

  16. actuially i think we make up less than 1% of the population

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  17. actuially i think we make up less than 1% of the population. in my town
    of 12,000 i know of 7 people thatr can unicycle. but i think we are
    above average here because in middle school (junior high school) they
    do a circus unit in gym class and part of it is learning to ride a uni.
    (i never took the circus unit)

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  18. Rogeratunicycledotcom says 12% (I think, forgive me if i'm wrong Roger,
    I have a memory like a leaky sieve) of the population unicycles. I
    reckon they are in clumps though, not evenly spread over the world. For
    instance, 4 people down my street unicycle (not including my husband
    and son who try sometimes). There are at least 2 or 3 other people in
    this small town who can ride.

    There is a cluster of people around this part of the world who can
    unicycle (whether they are actively unicycling is another thing)
    because a big circus 'school' used to exist locally and a lot of people
    learned there.

    Cathy

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  19. Based on the number of times I still notice people snapping shots of me
    with their camera phones, I would say that it is still "WOW." However,
    I'm not sure that it's as uncommon as I initially thought because I
    keep meeting people that can or used to unicycle. For example, about a
    month ago, I found out that one of the maintenance guys where I live
    performed with his unicycle on the Ed Sullivan show, and he has a
    picture of one of The Beatles sitting on his unicycle. (Don't ask me
    which one, The Beatles were before my time. :p )

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  20. To get a useable answer, you have to start with a better definition of
    the question:

    Where is your "given crowd" of people? Certainly the percentages will
    be very different in various countries, especially third world ones.

    More importantly perhaps, what is your definition of "unicyclist?" Is
    it merely someone who can ride? What if they only did it for a few
    weeks 20 years ago, and don't even know if they can still do it now?
    How good a rider did they need to be? 3 meters? 10 meters? Freemount?

    I'm surprised at Roger Davies' number of 12%, which seems awfully high
    even with the widest definition of what a unicyclist is (other than
    someone who merely tried one). I'd like to hear more about that. I will
    stick with something around 1% for now.

    Just because you never see unicyclists in your area doesn't mean they
    aren't out there. They might never ride, or only ride indoors, etc.
    Most people who can ride unicycles are not necessarily interested in
    hanging out with other people on unicycles.

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