Quote of the day (from non-riders)



the other night i was heading out of my house, and noticed a limo on the
road i would be going along. a cringe rose up inside me. sure enough,
when the limo hit slower traffic and we were aligned, there was a
steady bout of indistinct screaming from within. it continued for quite
a while, as well, since we were matching speeds.

oh, you need a quote? 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!'


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alex_curtis wrote:
> i get the wheelie thing all the time
>
> i was riding aroud the other day on my muni back in some hill climbing
> trails for quads and dirtbikes and was challanged to a wheelie contest
> by one of the riders
> he left in a helicopter medical evac after hitting a tree



thats going in my facebook


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A skater today said he'd never seen anyone doing what I was doing...
hopping my trials uni over Alain's uni (It was lying on the ground ;)).
So I did a 180 unispin... and managed to land it. Doesn't usually
happen when I'm trying to show off :D

5 Minutes later the skater was yelling "My nuts!" as he tried uni'ing.
Hopefully we'll have another convert.

And on the way home I saw some kids with a uni in their yard. We're
taking over the town :D


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evil-nick

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total
obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and
through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see
its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will
remain.

* Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.

I'm late for checkers with the Dalai Lama!

My gallery:
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Our Club:
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:06:13 -0500, krring wrote:

>hah! evidently not someone with a full grip of greek numbers.

In my native language a tricycle is called "driewieler". Nothing greek
but plain Dutch. Therefore, a unicycle (similarly called "eenwieler")
is never confused with a tricycle.
 
Whilst on the recent Snowdon ride, a climber asked me "Can i hold it?"
As if it were some sort of holy grail! It made me chuckle!

By "it" i mean my unicycle!

Ride on!
Edd


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Eddbmxdude

Its like England here....Iv never seen so much sun!

"Its not that far up really" Zippy, on climbing up snowdon.

THOU SHALL employ a "deadmans switch" which shall render the beast
inoperable in the event that the pilot is launched.
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For some reason, every person I meet whilst on my unicycle thinks
they're original when they say "where's the other half" or "you lost a
wheel." Really annoys me. Anywho, referring to the first page, who's
"John"?


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dr.melon

Remember, you're unique, just like everybody else.

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Klaas Bil wrote:
>
> a unicycle (similarly called "eenwieler")


I was riding in Belgium and heard "haine vile" (which in french sounds
... well heinous) but since the pink cheeked ladies who said that had
warm smiles I realised they were speaking of my uni in their musical
language :rolleyes:


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I remembered this from last November; it was only my second ever muni
ride and was still nervous about how the General Public would react to
me. As I was getting out of the car, a middle-aged man was putting his
bicycle into his car. He notices that I'm wearing shorts.

*Man:* Are you biking? Or running?
*Me (doubtful):* Er.. errmm... I s'pose you -could- call it biking...
*Man (confused): * Well... whatever you're doing, it's pretty slippery
out there.
*Me:* Oh, thanks very much!

I gently got the muni out and got prepared, out of sight. Then I mount
and ride away with the satisfying sound of gravel giving way under my
tyre. As I head away, I hear a voice...

*Man:* Nice one!


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gkmac

"It's a marvellous thing to see, someone in full flight on the
unicycle." - Stuart Maconie, Radio 2
"Oh no! Both my toes have gone numb!" - Joe Hodges
"You also met me gk! I was the one eating the sandwich!" - Adam Gayne
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well today i went to tesco's to get some grub, and got some kiddies in
there corsa - LMAO - something incoherent.

And then leaving tescos with 2 shopping bags b4 i hop on it, wheres the
other half gone, but he was friendly enough, and i popped a line bk at
him. He didn't shut up so i carried on :D

[image: http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8131/evilzippy2an.png]


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Girl on a bike riding past me on a Coker: "My, that's a big one!"
Me: "Thanks. I get that alot."

Actually, I don't get that often enough. I've only got to use it once
before.


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harper

-Greg Harper

B L U E S H I F T

*jc is the only main man. there can be no other.*

This is still my nth post....*AWESOME!!!*
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I largely ride in the rather large parking lot around my apartment
building - it's also shared by a bunch of other buildings, so it's
pretty huge. I tend to do laps around an "island" (that has some trees,
a flagpole, etc).

Everyone's always been very positive and seemed excited when I ride -
which is cool.

Today I got two weird comments.

#1:
Girl: "Hey, are you going to be riding at Burning Man?"
Me: "Uh, I've actually never been to Burning Man."
Girl: "Oh, because I've seen pictures. They have like fleets of them
there!"

Wierd... but not offensive in the least.

#2 - I was doing a bunch more laps and this car of people (from Rhode
Island - about 1 hour south of where I'm at) pulled up behind me. I
moved to the inside of the "island" to let them go around me and I turn
to continue to go around it. The dude in the car honked at me and said
"Nice bike asshole" and ended up driving a lap around the island and
meandered through the parking lot and eventually left.

Ummm... right. I think he was just stupidly lost (and beyond ignorant)
and decided to take it out on the first "target" he saw. Being my first
negative comment so far, I'll roll with it. (no pun intended)


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the good
i was crossing over a road to get from the intermediate to the advanced
trail at the local mtb trails and a man stopped his car about 20 feet
from where i was going to cross the road. he screamed out "you're my
hero" while i was crossing the street i just thought to myself, "wow,
doesn't take much to impress him." but i apreciated the comment.
the bad
more recently, i was riding around NCSU and during a particulary
dangerous section of traffic negotiation (crossing a road, but it
warrents a more hardcore-sounding name during heavy traffic) a guy
decides to come up right behind me, gun his engine rolling in neutral
at like 20mph (fast as heck when the thing going 20 is 3 feet and
closing) and lays on the horn. for a second i contemplated slamming
the uni into the side of his car, the pedal would have pinstripped his
rice rocket in a cool 5 stripe pattern.


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joshuni

president of the norml uni sect
"canadaneesses (ka-nA-dan-E-cez) are cool, if you think otherwise then
go sit on a trout and spin. when you reach the tail, the ride is
over." -me 'cause FHM took a shot at the homies. (canada, please give
me citizenship to your fine country)
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I was riding in my neighborhood park yesterday. A man and his two kids
were riding bicycles and we passed on the trail going in different
directions. I thought the kids were girls until the man yells, "Hey,
look Bubba, that man can only afford half a bicycle." Just goes to
show, you can't judge children by the length of their hair. In fact all
three of them looked sort of Harperesque. :rolleyes:


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A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to
blame someone else. - Waite Phillips
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I thought I posted about the wreck I almost "caused" in here, but I
don't see it anywhere, so I guess I didn't...anyway, some ididot was
pulling out of a sidestreet, into a fairly major road, and she saw me
on the sidewalk, and immediately slammed on her brakes (half way out
into the lane).
It's a good thing that the oncomnig traffic was in the other lane


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GhettoSmurf wrote:
> you eat stuff like to remind you of stuff.


'just' (http://oldeenglish.org/gymclass.html) about the coolest thing
I've ever seen
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