Public Spectacles

Well, although it's not that funny, I once rode past a family with two
small children where the kids kept shouting "Dad, ask him, is it hard,
dad, ask him is it hard..."

I found it quite funny at the time because everybody turned to look what
kind of mad-men were shouting like that. And I think the father was a
little embarrased.

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A couple years ago, I tried a mount out in the street in front of my
house. My heel slipped over the front of the pedal and I fell backwards
and landed flat on my back. That wasn't so bad, but the carload of high
schoolers driving by at just the right time had a gas with it. I could
hear them howling with laughture as they drove away.

B

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yoopers - Bruce & Mary Edwards

Of professional wrestling, Sarah Miller says, "The competition element
is all part of the "plot"..."Its pantomime in lycra."
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Last Saturday morning I was out with Pete, unisk8r, on the Burke-Gillman
Trail, a local rails-to trails multi-use path. Pete on Purple Phaze and
I was on Blue Shift.

Between Pete's better luck at a street crossing and his higher gear
ratio I had fallen behind and was doing my best to keep up. I was riding
at a pretty good speed (for me) when I UPD'd about 50 feet behind an
elderly gentleman walking ahead of me. He did not know I was coming up
behind him.

I had to do a full speed run out, straight at him. I was wearing 661
Dually's so the flat soles were really slapping loudly on the
pavement.

About the time I got right behind the walker he turned around and said,
"You trying to scare me?".

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UniBrier - Its Time to Ride

Steve

Do your feet smell? Does you nose run?...You may be built upside down.
-Old joke I found in a Mad Magazine many moons ago.

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Two summers ago I rode to and back from our public library. The last bit
coming back is a fairly steep hill. As I approached it I saw two teenage
boys who had passed me some time back walking their bikes up the hill. I
thought I'd show them what a unicycle can do and I rode up the hill and
passed them feeling rather smug. At the top as I was switching over to
the other side of the road to enter my development my legs just gave out
and I collapsed and fell forward rather hard and inelegantly. I cut my
hands and knees in the process and looked like the complete idiot. I got
up, brushed myself off, remounted, and rode the last couple of hundred
feet and never looked back. I can only imagine what they were doing. 🙂

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JJuggle - Last of the Dogmato-Revisionists

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

The narcotic that forges their union, is a substance known only to one
To the clown it is known as dominion, it’s a secret that he’ll give to
none
The drug which gives the clown power, means the circus can never be
stopped
And his dream can go on unhindered, ’til the last human being has
dropped

- The Circus of Death by Human League
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I was once riding in a park, and had the worst nutbuster in months, I
lay on the ground for a while writhing and groaning in agony as two loud
mouthed must-be-10-year-olds walked by laughing. I was too out of it to
even get up and do anything.

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Catboy - I enjoy the taste of dirt!!!

'I have the amazing power to talk to cats! =^.^='
(http://gallery.unicyclist.com/Catboy)

RIP Unibiker
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I'm still not a great rider but my UPDs are getting fewer and fewer. It
just seems that Murphy's Law is alive and well in that whenever I do UPD
it's seems like it's ALWAYS in front of somebody. I haven't experienced
out and out laughter yet but I've crashed hard enough to elicit some
sympathic groans and a few "Hey man, you alright?"s.🙄

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underdog - level 1 rider

'I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody
tell you different' - Kurt Vonnegut
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Well my best time ever on a unicycle, so I guess it wasn't embarrassing,
but i was unicycling around a local highschool and some highschoolers
were on bikes trying to jump the loading dock unsuccesfully. While i was
just gonna ride past, the yelled somthing stupid, to vulgar to say, and
well any who i rode back over to them an asked the if they would like to
give it a try. Needless to say they couldnt so it, so they gave me "Oh
well he doesn't have any balls." So they just kinda went back to there
unsuccessful loading dock jump so I went and jumped u[p the stairs and
snaked one of the guys and did this like 180 like thing kinda on
accendent but I rode off backwards and then I just kinda rode off
laughing, it was awosme.......

POW

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Unitik908 - Level 5

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

--Vincent Van Gogh
R.I.P Unibiker

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worst unicycle experience was probably when i was riding to school one
day with my project (posterboard) in my back pack, and i fell right in
the middle of the rode. thank goodness no one was there, i dont what i
would have done. thankfully most of my falls arent around anyone.

jon

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AllThingsUni - A Hog Noob

I will prepare and one day my time will come. - Abe Lincoln

You become brave by doing brave things - Aristotle
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