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I have never been stopped when riding any Uni on the pavement, including
the 29er at night (I only do this when there seems to be a lot of stupid
drivers on the road, or they all are excessively speeding). Normally
the only time I ride on the pavement is when I'm with one my kids as
they are too young to road ride.

I don't think I have been passed on the, extremely rare, occasions when
I Cokered on the pavement. It will be intresting if this draws any
comment from the police.

Keith

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The only time a policemen ever talked to me about unicycling is when we
were jumping around on the benches, and he told us we couldn't do that
anymore. So we waited until he left.
....just kidding.... we went somewhere else to jump around on the
benches.
One time when I was riding my coker on the left side of the road, a
bunch of guys in a car 'buzzed' me. Meaning they came behind me, on the
right side of course, sped up to ~60-70 mph then came to the left side
of the road as close to me as they could without hitting me and honked
their horn really long. This doesn't have anything to do with what
you're talking about exactly, but I felt like I should mention it. ( :

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I've had three encounters with the police when unicycling.

One when I was a long haired teen in NYC and hadn't yet learned to ride.
I was walking with a borrowed unicycle and a cop told me to ride it or
he'd assume it was stolen. I can't remember the whole exchange but I
managed to persuade him that I was learning and it was borrowed not
stolen. Really shook me up. 🙁

The second was when I was just starting out again after not riding for
17 years. I was riding around town and this cop on patrol on a bike rode
up next to me and said, "There's always a show off." I offered to teach
him to ride and help set up a unicycle patrol squad, but he declined.
🙂

The last was when I was working on riding backwards in a parking lot.
Two cops in a patrol pulled up next to me and one said, "Buddy, I have
some bad news for you". Then after a long pause during which I figured
they were going to throw me out of my practice area, he said, "You're
going backwards." It was a fairly lame joke, but I laughed appropriately
and told them that was the idea. 🙂

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I got stopped riding on the pavement on a 24 a while ago, but only
because the police were doing a bit of a campaign to stop bikes riding
on pavements. This was on the main road between the uni campus and the
main studenty housing area, so loads of people ride on the paths -
students who bike to lectures here are actually issued with a permit
exempting them from all traffic laws, so aren't required to use lights
at night, ride on the roads or stop at red lights. Sadly, mine appears
to have been lost in the post.

Anyway, when I was stopped the policeman explained what we were doing
and asked if I had any thoughts on how it relates to unicycles. I
explained about it being a lot slower than a bike and my reasons for not
riding on the road, and he agreed that the path was possibly the best
place for me to ride. I also said that I agreed with him about stopping
bikes riding on the path, much though I love being a human skittle to
those that bike on the pavement at top speed, which may have helped.

I was quite impressed really. He seemed genuinely interested and was
open to reasonable discussion, rather than doing the stereotypical
'respect my authority' thing. Having said that, I can imagine it would
have been different if I had talked to him with a 'stop hassling me, you
evil tool of a repressive society' type attitude (4 letter words
translated for the forum).

What I am now slightly curious about is what happens if the same guy
sees me on the coker on the road. Could require some interesting
explanation...

John

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johnhimsworth said:

*
What I am now slightly curious about is what happens if the same guy
sees me on the coker on the road. Could require some interesting
explanation...*

Easy, on a Coker you go faster, so the road is more reasonable.

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I was riding my 26" muni on the road when a SUV (explorer?) pulled up
beside me to match my speed. I looked over and it was a police suv.

Driver: Hey, someone stole your wheel

Me: I should arrest you for bad joke telling

Other two police guys: laugh hysterically at driver

Police SUV: Drives away

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brian.slater said:

*Easy, on a Coker you go faster, so the road is more reasonable. *

I know that, you know that, but the question is wether I could explain
it all to the policeman without looking like a complete hypocrite. I'm
fairly confident I could though. I can explain all the road safety
benefits of a higher seat compared to bikes, as well as the more
bike-esque speeds.

John

Argh! A post at 9am on a saturday. I got up to go riding, okay. Really
should go now as well.

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Funny thing is the very same day (yesterday) after I'd started this
thread I was riding home from a restaurant through town in the 20''er
and decided to ride through the train station to avoid a gang of
drunkard types outside the pub at the front of the station, although the
station was deserted as it was quite late I was told to 'get off yer
bike, monocycle whatever you call it' by a man in a luminous yellow
jacket, probably the station attendant, anyway I respected his request
so as not to cause any trouble, I bet that was the highlight of his
evening in his otherwise tedious job.
Result for the day then.
Police 1
Station attendant 0

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I was coming up to a roundabout riding on the pavement when I police car
went past, stopped at the roundabout and one of the policemen stuck
their head out the window and then the car drove off.

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I got kicked off the sidewalk on my 24. The roads here are bad enough
that I'd be doing plenty of falls if I did ride on the road...I'd ride
on the roads if I thought it was safe, but I don't.

I checked the laws. They specificly state "No bicycles allowed on the
sidewalk" (nothing like "no cycling"😉 and a bicycle is legally defined
as having "two or more wheels in tandem", so he really had no legal
right to tell me that.

Also interesting...It's illegal to ride a bicycle here without holding
onto the handlebars.

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It is, however, illegal for anyone to honk their horn at me in
enthusiam, which at least 15 drunk college drivers did today.

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Interestingly, though, where I was once stopped was outside the county
police station. I go by there daily, and have gotten many, many positive
comments from the officers there and lots of thumbs-ups.

Which is why I found it a bit odd to get stopped there...but it was a
city cop who stopped me, not a county one.

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JJuggle said:

* a borrowed unicycle and a cop told me to ride it or he'd assume it
was stolen.

"There's always a show off."

*

wierd cuz if u were walking with a bike he probably wouldnt have said
ride it or ill assume its stolen.(wait was he kidding?)

typical

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also, i live on base, so every time they do the check on the neghborhood
i get kicked outta the street. i expect it. its always a different
person performing the check so the same person never has kicked me off
twice. 😉 i wouldnt ever ride on the sidewalk- to little for me.

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I don't think I've ever been in a run in with the 5-O but I get told to
leave alot of shopping areas (My main terrain). One lady that owned this
dentristy place was getting real mad at me and by brother (on a
skateboard) for riding down and over her steps. It was real funny
because she told my brother to stop riding that "dand roller board".
Also one dude called my unicycle a unicorn. I was outraged.

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A few weeks ago I was in Vancouver B.C. and rode my trials unicycle all
over the place. While rideing across one of the big bridges over fales
creek, I was joined by a police man on his motor bike. He rode beside me
all the way across the bridge, we just grinned at each other. Rode 17 km
that day.

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If I had a nickel for every time...

I hear from officer's about my unicycling almost every day. But then
again, that's because I am one 😄 and work in a U. S. Penitentiary.

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trials is cool......

Once me and my friend got told by some cop or something that we couldnt
ride in this shoping center (we were riding on a fountain)....this other
time this psycho lady comes out of her apartment telling us that if wen
didnt stop riding down the stairs next to her apartment then "the cops
would be called"

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