Quote of the day (from non-riders)



1. Elderly occupant of a mobility scooter: "Haven't seen one of those
ridden for years'.

2. Female pram pusher (dutifully followed by pet pooch) when we met in
the middle of a hump-backed footbridge : "Are you good at avoiding
obstacles?"
Me: "Not yet."

3. Elderly gent walking with dog evacuated the pathway, hid down the
bank and wouldn't look.
I think he was terrified. Do I ride that bad?

4. Hoon car on main rd: "##################"

I had a great time though.


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was riding around the park and a lady said
"whoa! thats way cooler than skateboarding!...BMX,
blech..Skateboarding, blech..rollerblading, blech..but that is cool!"
it made me laugh.

also i overheard some lady trying to sound smart to her freinds and
said "oh, those guys are crazy! did you know they ride on top of
mountain tops? yea there is this guy 'kris jones' who is really famous
with them"

i couldnt stop cracking up about that one..


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unisteez wrote:
>
>
> also i overheard some lady trying to sound smart to her freinds and
> said "oh, those guys are crazy! did you know they ride on top of
> mountain tops? yea there is this guy 'kris jones' who is really famous
> with them"
>
>


hahaha thats good stuff right there. has anyone raaced a little kid on
a bike before? a couple of weeks ago i was iding my 20" trials and this
little kid was riding a little bike with training wheels. eventually i
caught up to him. ofcorse he noticed me. i saw his shifty little eys
focus on me. he than sped up to catch up to me. he than turned next to
me and gave me the eye... you know, the eye little kids give you when
they want to race you. well i slowely exelerate and than i gave a 10
second burst of speed as fast as i could.... i left him on the dust....
it was awsome....:cool:


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30 year old mother to her 4 year old daughter: Look ____, it's a one
wheeled bicycle!
4 year old daughter to her 30 year old mother: It's a unicycle!


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An Elderly woman on a motorized scooter said to me as I rode down a set
of stairs "Those things are amazing your so talented to be able to ride
one let alone down stairs."

I hopped off a curb and rode back up on the sidewalk and someone asked
"Can you ride that?"

This one lady was walking along the sidewalk and I was trying to get
out of the way of her 5 year old son who was asking all kinds of the
basic questions and she pulls her kid off the sidewalk and looks at me
like I was a Psycho Killer and she mumbles "get away from him..." I
couldn't hear the rest of it I guess that's a good thing though.

I was riding back home and someone said "Oh my God look at him, How do
you do that" and then someone said "Don't be so rude"

I got alot more comments that I can't remember I might have more later
on today I am going riding again In about an hour.


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monkeyman wrote:
> 30 year old mother to her 4 year old daughter: Look ____, it's a one
> wheeled bicycle!
> 4 year old daughter to her 30 year old mother: It's a unicycle!



Ha that's Great


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wow i sure get called alot of things in my neighbour hood.

Today i got called a "circus freak" and a clown.

I love passing by little kids tho. They just keep that stun face like
there seeing somthing out of the ordinary.

Learning to unicycle took me less time than it did to roller blade.
Kids should be introduced to unicyling like a bike or a scooter.


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I Heard someone yell "Freak!" and I looked around didn't see anyone they
must have run away and I rode past a large group of kids at the park
and they were between the ages of maybe 5 and 10 all of them yelled and
cheered and asked If I would do some tricks so I did some hops and they
stared in wonder at the fact that I was defying the laws of their own
little worlds one kid even Yelled "No! that's not possible!" and ran to
his mom.


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I passed a couple girls on bikes right after I started a 4 mile loop
today. I passed them again near the end, and one said "I'm almost
impressed." I said "thanks", when I *should* have said "I'm almost
complimented!" ;)

A little later some (possibly drunk guy) was heard to be saying "Look
at that guy, he's got one of those, what's it called... unicycle!" I
was waiting for tricycle, couldn't help but laugh ;)


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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.

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manon1wheel wrote:
> has anyone raaced a little kid on a bike before? a couple of weeks ago
> i was iding my 20" trials and this little kid was riding a little bike
> with training wheels. eventually i caught up to him. ofcorse he noticed
> me. i saw his shifty little eys focus on me. he than sped up to catch
> up to me. he than turned next to me and gave me the eye... you know,
> the eye little kids give you when they want to race you. well i slowely
> exelerate and than i gave a 10 second burst of speed as fast as i
> could.... i left him on the dust.... it was awsome....:cool:



There are a bunch of little kids in my neighborhood, and I mean little.
They still ride around on little, tiny (like maybe 12" wheel) kids
bikes with training wheels. They always wanna race me when I come by.
I always let 'em win. Makes 'em feel good. Damn hard to ride that
slow though. 'Specially on my 29er.

Sometimes it's the stuff that people don't say that's funniest. When I
was still very much at the
arms-flailing-barely-able-to-keep-to-one-side-of-the-road stage I was
coming towards an older woman walking her little fifi dog. When she
finally noticed me coming, she got this panicked look and very quickly
ushered here little dog to the other side of the road. I said, "hello"
but she wouldn't even make eye contact.

Another time I came upon a group of 13 year old, or so, kids playing
basketball in their driveway. They stopped and looked at me as I rode
by so I said, "hi." They all just gave this vacuous stare that seemed
to say, "oh sh*t, that crazy man just talked to us!"


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As a learner who can just about make a hundred yards (thats -with- arms
flailing about and wobbling like mad) I'm amazed at the number of
people who just want to talk to me. People who would not pass the time
of day with me normally now stop, stare and smile as I wobble past.
I suppose it helps that I'm learning in front of the Swansea Maritime
Museum at the moment, a massive open plan area, very busy, with lovely
flat surfaces, and lots of daily visitors.
Just one question...
Is it wrong, when a group of cocky p*ss-heads say "I can do that mate!
Gizza go!" to let them have a go without warning them how difficult it
is?
Part of me just wants them to go away, yet another part of me wants to
see them fall flat on their arses.
Oh the moral dilemma!

Just a thought - I'd better throw in a quote here to justify my post.
The day before yesterday, passing a group of teenagers...
"Hey mister, your wheel's going round!"
Me (smiling) - "Yeah!"
"Hey, can you ride that?"
Me (smiling) - "Yeah!!"
"Hey, are you joining the circus?"
Me (laughing) - "Yeah!!!"


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underdog wrote:
> ...a group of 13 year old, or so, kids playing basketball in their
> driveway. They stopped and looked at me as I rode by so I said, "hi."
> They all just gave this vacuous stare that seemed to say, "oh sh*t,
> that crazy man just talked to us!"


As I rounded past the high school on nice 7 mile loop on the 36", I
passed a bunch of teenagers. A group of girls watched me approach with
surprise and alarm. One looked at me and said "Hi!" and her friend
immediately said, seeming very serious, "Don't -*talk*- to him!" as
someone might say "Don't -*pick up *-that snake!"


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Riding fast (for me) on my 36er, I passed a small group of people and
one guy asked "How do you stop?" It deserved an answer, and in the
quick time I had as I passed I said something about pushing back to
slow down.

His question was surely a reasonable one as he saw no brake... Much
better than "You lost the other wheel/half ..." or circus stuff.

My dad was biking along with me and I had to explain how cool of a
comment that was. It didn't translate well to someone not exposed to
those tired cliches over and over.


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monkeyman wrote:
> 30 year old mother to her 4 year old daughter: Look ____, it's a one
> wheeled bicycle!
> 4 year old daughter to her 30 year old mother: It's a unicycle!



That's good :D

Kind of reminds me of a similar -putting your parent down- remark I had
couple of days ago. Our neighbour comes home with his 4 or 5 yr old son
and saw me (for the first time) riding.

Him to his son, "Look, our neighbour can ride a unicycle!"
The boy, "*You* can't!"


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I was boarding the bus with Unicycle in hand(because I can't ride far
enough to ride all the way to school) and heard a cough from someone in
my neighborhood that sounded mysteriously like someone saying "Loser!"
but on a happier note this morning I was riding to school after getting
of the bus and someone said "Man, That's one CRAZY kid."


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Grr... Just got back from riding and got the Infamous "where's your
other wheel?" question I replied "Just took all the extras off my bike"
then He says "Hope you got that bike for Half-Price!" then he chuckled
to himself I replied with a frown "Of course I did." Anyway I rode past
the house of someone from my church who also owns a unicycle and she
saw me out her kitchen window and yelled out "Way to go you're doing
Great!!" and that's my highlight for the day.


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I've actually never gotten the "where's the otehr wheel comment?"

Yesterday, Matt (dudewithasock) and I were riding around our strip mall
type things, and we got a lot of good comments...
An old black guy with a cap on who was walking towards on us on the
sidewalk, when we approached, he took of his cap, and did a little bow
thing a bowed us by, and then yelled "Damn y'all must be nuts"

There was that comment about the little girl and her mom from earlier

As we were riding in front of Albertson's, some skaters came out, and
one asked to try and ride, so we let him, and he sucked (big surprise
there)
But then a guy came out and said he used to be able to ride, so I let
him try out my 20 inch, and he got about 20 feet before he
fell.....that was cool.
Then a skater back in Matt's neighborhood who had tryed before asked to
try again...he still sucked at it (yet another big surprise).

About 4 girls in the back of a truck were yelling stuff to us while in
the parking lot ("That's awesome", "y'all are good at that" [insert us
showing off here])

Also, on the way to Albertson's, these teenagers were coming towards us
on the other side of the road, they passed us, did a u turn, came back,
and were yelling out the window to us (more positive stuff), then went
a little ahead, and did a u turn so they were going back to their
original direction, and then yelled at us again as they passed
us....that was cool.

And then, it's not so much a response as a cool thing, we found some
empty shopping carts in the parking lot, and we were riding around
while pushing them...we got a lot of strange looks...it was funny...we
were racing too (Matt won, he has a 24").

We also found a really good way to start off the backwards learning
process...
Hold onto a shopping cart, and jsut pedal backwards....the shopping
cart is basically a moving suppport....it's pretty cool.


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underdog wrote:
> There are a bunch of little kids in my neighborhood, and I mean little.
> They still ride around on little, tiny (like maybe 12" wheel) kids
> bikes with training wheels. They always wanna race me when I come by.
> I always let 'em win. Makes 'em feel good. Damn hard to ride that
> slow though. 'Specially on my 29er.
>
>


same here. they are really small kids. with thre small bikes and the
training wheels and stuff.


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I used the shopping cart method to learn to ride in the first place.


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