I took my new cheap 28 frame and decent hub into Freewheel in Nottingham a week or so again with an order for them to build a lightweight unicycle wheel for me. Freewheel has maybe a dozen employees and a tiny workshop with space to work on I guess 3 or 4 bikes max.
I was in there today for something else and asked, "Any idea how my custom unicycle wheel is coming on? I brought a unicycle frame and hub in last week."
The shop assistant's reply? "I'll check - what's your surname?"
Well any one of the Nottingham EMUnicyclists could have been in and dropped of a unicycle for repairs. Its a possibility even if not a very likely one.
More likely he was just saying the same things as he always says to customers enquiring about custom stuff.
