I just saw a lady riding down the street on a unicycle. I seem to see more and more of these now. Could unicycles be the next big fad? At one point, it was hip to have a fixed gear bicycle as seen by the number of fixies road by bike messengers and kids who aspired for the messenger look, as well as the popularity of sites like fixedgeargallery.com. I admit, I’ve been taken with the fixed gear thing for awhile. But why would I want something with less gears, let alone no handlebars, breaks or one wheel when I could have more?

It seems like this shares a common thread with, the hipster pda, ukuleles, knitting and gardening. These are all fads around simplicity. I don’t know, maybe people want to make this busy 8 blade razor world simple again, like bringing back the double mint twins. Maybe it’s just fun? All I know is that if you want to get ahead of this craze, I would start reserving your domain names for ukulecrazy.com (available at time of posting) and the like now.

Oh wait, maybe this trend has already jumped the shark, I see there is already a section for Extreme Unicycle riding in wikipedia. I am not making this up.