Ever asked to be filmed??

I haven't been -asked- to get filmed ever...but lots of times i've
noticed people around me filming me as I ride, a couple of times when
I've been alone. But when I was in riding in Wellington especially for
x-air.

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i was asked once to be filmed by some crazy hippy whilst i was on
holiday in brighton. whilst filming, this very weird person was saying
into the camera "wow man . . . the things you see in brighton, man!
groovy!"

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Some people pulled off the highway to take my picture. That always
happens. But nobodys ever asked to film me.

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I was riding with the crowd of walkers at a recent big-name walk-a-thon.
Some guy pulled up in a car and got out with a big, commercial style
video camera. He yelled, "hey unicycle guy, can you go back and ride
this way again?"

I dismounted and walked back through the crowd, did my best
under-pressure simple freemount and road past the camera guy. (The crowd
cheered wildly.) I got just past the guy then looked back at him. He was
pointing the camera in another direction so he may have filmed me for
about 5 seconds.

Oh well, I may end up on a promotional video for next year's
walk-a-thon.

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Yup. I was doing a 1 meter drop in a skatepark, which apparently
impressed a guy filming for a skate film. He asked if i could do it
again for his film, so i did.

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Stranged that this topic was posted 2 days after I was filmed by some
lady in a car. Personally, I don't mind people photo/filming while I
uni. I think it just promotes or makes people aware of unicycling(not
just for as clowns and jugglers).
On the flip side, the day after the filming, I was riding with the
traffic during Memorial weekend and some jerk toss a water balloon at me
while driving up behind me. Luckily, I was on my Coker criss-crossing so
the idiot missed. 😄
Has anyone else had people tossing things at you while riding?

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leadpan said:

* some jerk toss a water balloon at me while driving up behind me.Has
anyone else had people tossing things at you while riding? *

ha. nope. nothing besides verbal abuse.

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Our group was at Gasworks park doing trials and one of the skateboarders
asked to film us. Fortunately, Sabin was there so the guy actually had
something to film.

I have seen cellphones come out of car windows many times as I ride my
Coker. I was asked once by a group of girls stopped in a car at a
traffic signal if they could photograph me on the Coker.

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I always think it is funny when people feel they have to ask if they can
film or photograph me.
And of course I always repond with "You will have to set it up with my
agent".

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A kid in my neighborhood asked me if I could take my unicycle of any
jumps. When I said yes, he went and got a skateboard jump and a camera.
He didn't ask if he could fim me, but he did anyway. This was when I
hade first learnt to rid an uni, so all he got was me racking myself a
few times. It was funny watching it over again, though.

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People who throw stones at you are quietly saying, "shoot me," they're
just not being verbally expressive enough.
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Yeah its funny, people flip when they see unicyclists. I get camera
flashes all the tiem and lookin around for where it came from, My friend
and I were in hte news paper cause we were in a parade. Its pretty
funny, I like hte cell phone cameras tht always get ya

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my friend and I were riding in the park a couple weeks ago, and some
people came in with a ton of camera equipment. one guy set it up, and
two others started doing stuff while being filmed.... clearly they were
very amateur and kind of just making up what to film. but anyway. they
noticed us, and asked if we could be in their movie. after talking to
them we found out they were from Troy, no not that Troy, this one's a
city about ten miles away from Moscow. And this movie was for their
senior project. So they filmed us unicycling, and juggling three
biscuits we just got from the free bin at the co-op. it was pretty
sweet....

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A friend of mine was out riding his coker, and had an orange thrown at
him from some bushes

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A few weeks ago I was camping at an Ohio state park with my family. On
one of my coker rides, a car passed me, then pulled over and jumped out
with a big camera and a guy holding a boom mike. I rode past them and
then they asked me to stop for an interview.

That same weekend there was a Sasquatch (big foot) conference at the
state park. They assumed that I must be one of the big foot believers.
They intervieweed about sasquatch, if I was a "believer" and then a
little about the coker and my riding gloves, saddle and cyclocomputer.
I had to sign a release form for them. They were making a documentary
on sasquatch or the conference or something like that.

The question is, what's the chance of my footage getting in the film,
especially since I didn't have an opinion for or against the existence
of big foot.

It's always fun to get a little attention.

One other event, just a few days ago. Again on my coker... a VW beetle,
red, convertible passed me with a blond in it. She passed me waving
like she was my best friend. Have no idea who she was.

Bill

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The Yang said:

*A friend of mine was out riding his coker, and had an orange thrown
at him from some bushes *

You'd think that George and Laura would have better things to do. 😄

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On the west side highway bike path, I always see people suddenly
pointing their cameras (both still and moving) in my direction as I ride
by. As I get better (and faster) I am relieved that their chances to
corner me and ask for a pose become less and less.
My nightmare scenereo would be some guy with a digital movie camera
stopping me, asking me to ride, and then all he gets is myself trying
for about 30 times to freemount, totally failing. (I always freemount
well when no one is looking, but it all just goes to Hell in a [censored]
basket whenever anyone watches)

leadpan said:

* I was riding with the traffic during Memorial weekend and some jerk
toss a water balloon at me while driving up behind me. *

Again, I was on the west side highway bikepath--a truck rolls by, and
some big burly guy with a moustache pokes his head out and screams
furiously at me "I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!"

Not as bad as a waterballoon, but I can't help but wonder why a guy like
that would get so [censored] at a unicyclist on a bike path. He looked
really angry. His face was all red and contorted as he screamed at the
top of his lungs this utterly pointless threat at me. It's not like I
cut him off or anything--the bike path runs parrellel to this highway.
He must have seen me from behind, and I guess my balancing form on the
unicycle really ticked him off. Really got his goat. By the time his
vehicle was passing me, he expolded (he was not actually driving, he was
sitting in the passanger seat) with loud, thunderous venum. God knows
why. Maybe he used to get beaten up a lot as a kid by a rough gang of
unicycle thugs or something.
Sorry, I went a bit off topic...

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a cigar at the same time. Is that too much to ask for?
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dogbowl said:

*On the west side highway bike path, I always see people suddenly
pointing their cameras (both still and moving) in my direction as I
ride by. *

Yea, but they are just fans of the world famous artist, musician and
author Dogbowl. They probably didn't even notice the uni.

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Last fall I was riding past a frat house with a party on the roof and
someone chucked a beer bottle at me screaming "Hey, a unicyclist."

And once I was riding down the shoulder of a busy highway with cars
passing one after another at about 40mph eating Cheez-its. Right as I
stick a bunch of cheez-its in my mouth I see a flash from a passing
car.

Eating, reading news paper and doing other 2 handed activities are
always fun while commuting on a uni.

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bugman said:

*Yea, but they are just fans of the world famous artist, musician and
author Dogbowl. They probably didn't even notice the uni. *

LOL! 😄
In that case, I deserved a water balloon! Or better yet, tomatoes thrown
at high speed!

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